🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 15 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by Radhika Desai, Director of Geopolitical Economy Research Group and co-host of @GeopoliticalEcon's Geopolitical Economy Hour, to discuss dollar imperialism and dedollarization. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/5VHTQM…

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 16 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by Albert Pinto, co-editor of Phenomenal World's The Polycrisis, to discuss the many crises facing our world today—from climate collapse to the rise of the far-right and more. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZJ1…

Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread, meat, shoes, coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything" Return To Bandung & I on how societies are being beat back into poverty open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZJ1…

Columbia students nearly booed President Claire Shipman off stage, chanting “Free Mahmoud Khalil” over her hollow speech about “shaping these interesting times.” Khalil has been held by ICE for 10 weeks without charges.

🚨🚨 RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 17 OUT NOW 🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by critical economists Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social and Farwa Sial of International Development Economics Associates to discuss how the international financial system upholds imperialist domination over the Global South. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0LoOl2…

A new poll finds that 79% of countries around the world have a more positive view of China than the US. The poll, conducted by a Danish-based organisation, surveyed more than 110,000 people from 100 countries.

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 18 OUT NOW🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by acclaimed anticolonial scholar Priyamvada Gopal © to discuss the fraught politics of 'decolonization' — what it means, how it's been used, and how we can reclaim it. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0H1OAE…

Trump has banned the travel of foreign nationals from 12 countries. The common thread? Each country on the list has been bombed, destabilized, or interfered with by the U.S.

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 19 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode I'm joined by Hafsa Kanjwal, Professor of South Asian History and author of Colonizing Kashmir (Stanford Press, 2023), to discuss the history of colonization and resistance in Kashmir. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0gSkYx…

For 60+ years, the US has deliberately starved the Cuban people in the hopes of instigating regime change. The blockade is one of the most inhumane, blatantly imperialistic, and criminal things the US has ever done. May it one day fall, and those responsible be held to account.

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 20 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by political anthropologist samar al-bulushi, author of War-Making as World-Making (Stanford Press, 2024), to discuss how the U.S. outsources imperial violence to the Global South. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4GvNEH…

Protean Magazine Verso Books kate wehwalt pranay somayajula 🇵🇸 This is an excellent historical summary and imagining of a future project of global south solidarity and internationalism. Shoutout Return To Bandung!

In India, 250 million workers joined the General Strike on 9 July 2025. These pictures are from Gujarat, where women workers came out against the anti-labour policies of the BJP government. Humanity marches on.

Insane. Solidarity with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

wrote about the legacies of third worldism, 70 years on from the bandung conference, and why our present moment demands a revival of anticolonial internationalism on the left culture-shock.xyz/p/this-is-the-…

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 21 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by critical developmental economist Jayati Ghosh to discuss the complex and multifaceted relationship between imperialism and international development. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/6y7q0o…

Stay tuned for next week's release of my GREAT conversation with upstreampodcast.bsky.social!!!

Happy birthday Frantz Fanon

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 22 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by Progressive International coordinator Paweł Wargan to discuss the past, present, and future of left internationalism, and why today's left needs to center international solidarity. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0ondej…