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Front cover of Scorched Earth showing a lone soldier walking across a barren landscape.

The Empire Fights Back

The Second World War, as Scorched Earth recounts it, was colonial in its origins, genocidal in its prosecution, and imperial in its aftermath.

Tupac Shakur graffiti

The Empire Kills Its Poets

Tupac Shakur’s life cannot be understood without understanding the United States as a racial-capitalist empire.

White Babies for Empire: The Fascist Fetish for Fertility

The fascist right can’t decide if the country is bursting at the seams or facing demographic collapse. One minute it’s “no more room”, the next it’s “have more babies”. Strip away the rhetoric, and the truth is clear: this isn’t about numbers. It’s about race and it always has been.

Kneecap Irish republican style bally

The Real Menace Isn’t Kneecap — It’s the Daily Mail

Kneecap aren’t the danger. The danger is a British media machine that still treats Irish defiance as terrorism and harks for empire. What the Daily Mail fears isn’t incitement but memory, and that the wrong people might start singing their history out loud