The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective

The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns "To Iran's political prisoners, trapped 'between two blades of a scissors'," the open letter published on 20 August 2026 in The Guardian and signed by Western academics and cultural workers in the imperialist core. The letter distorts history, obfuscates the current geopolitical conjuncture, and provides ideological cover for the in...

AISC member Corinna Mullin, along with Suzanne Adely (NLG), Austin Cole (BAP), and Rosemari Mealy (author of Fidel & Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting) will discuss the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) recent delegation to Cuba for the International Colloquium "Fidel: Legacy and Future." They will cover their participation in this historic gathering, the revolutionary spirit of the Cuban people in the...

AISC members, Orisanmi Burton and Toussaint Losier will discuss the origins of Black August, an annual, month-long observance to honor Black political prisoners/POWs, study their struggles, and rededicate ourselves to the liberation struggle. Burton and Losier will also link its origins in California prisons in the 1970s to those taking place today in and outside of prisons, jails, and detention c...

The Trump regime's racist termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians has left 350,000 people without deportation protection and at the mercy of ICE.  Join us, AISC members Jamima Pierre and Diego Alcalá,  as we discuss TPS in a broader historical and political context. We explain why Haiti remains a key laboratory for US imperial terror. Watch the video edition on the AISC YouTub...

Join AISC livestream producer Sina Rahmani along with AISC members Navid Farnia and Diego Alcalá for a conversation on the latest developments in the global anti-imperialist struggle. Watch the video edition on the AISC YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/kTSftJUL87s?feature=share Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our website to join the newsletter and find o...

This podcast episode features AISC Members Drs. Charisse Stelly-Burden and Layla Brown  discussing  "Pan-Africanism and the Alliance of Sahel States," the recent special issue of The Pen is My Machete. Watch the  livestream edition  on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the newsletter and find our  blog , The Pen is My...

Join ASIC Members Navid Farnia and Diego Alcalá for a critical discussion on the latest developments in the global anti-imperialist struggle. Watch the  livestream edition  on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the newsletter and find our  blog , The Pen is My Machete.  

In this emergency livestream, AISC members Nina Farnia, Jemima Pierre and Diego Alcalá are back to discuss the latest aggression by the United States on the Islamic Republic of Iran. We will discuss the history of nuclear armament, the largest funeral in world history, the global impact of the Iran war from Ukraine to the Caribbean, and where the war is heading.  Watch the livestream edition  on t...

AISC members Nina Farnia, Navid Farnia, Toussaint Losier and Corinna Mullin in breaking down AISC Red Paper #2: "The Multiple Fronts of Iranian Anti-Imperialism" — we'll analyze the material stakes of the multiple zionist-imperialist violations of the ceasefire, including the zionist-imperialist attacks on Iran and Lebanon and ongoing genocide in Gaza, Iran's insistence on keeping both Lebanon and...

Yes. Let's talk about anti-imperialism and the beautiful game. Come join us for this special livestream which promises to be educational, competitive and fun. Let the best team win!   Watch the  livestream edition  on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the newsletter and find our  blog , The Pen is My Machete.

AISC members Jeannette Graulau and Corinna Mullin will discuss the radical ideas behind Latin American Marxist dependency theory, its origins and contributions to Third World Marxism, and why it matters for understanding Latin America today.   Watch the  livestream edition  on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the new...

AISC members, Navid Farnia, Jemima Pierre, and Aby Sene discuss the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) struggle for sovereignty and fight against imperialist assault, as well as what the federation means for Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.  Watch the livestream edition  on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the newslet...

AISC members Layla Brown, Charisse Burden-Stelly, and Navid Farnia will discuss Pan-Africanism, its history, and its contemporary significance amid this weekend's annual African Liberation Day celebrations. Watch the livestream edition on the AISC YouTube channel Follow AISC  X (penandmachete)  Instagram (penandmachete) Visit our website to join the newsletter and find our blog, The Pen is My Mach...

This podcast will feature AISC member Diego Alcala in conversation with Rabab Abdulhadi about the enduring significance of the ongoing Nakba- the genocidal Zionist-imperialist colonization of Palestine- amid the unyielding resistance of the Palestinian people and the irreversible shift triggered by the Al-Aqsa Flood. This year's commemoration takes place at a moment of US imperialist decline, even...

AISC members Charisse Burden-Stelly and Tamanisha John will be joined by Kimberly Miller for a wide-ranging conversation centering the Caribbean as a primary site of analyzing, critiquing and ultimately overthrowing U.S. imperialism. From the use of extraordinary force to the imposition of genocidal sanctions to the discursive violence of declaring the Caribbean as its 'backyard', this region is t...

On this May Day livestream, AISC members Peter Hudson, Corinna Mullin and Jemima Pierre will be joined by Brahim Rouabah to discuss why imperialism is still the primary contradiction and has been for centuries. We will tackle the latest news in the war on West Asia and the capitalism v. white supremacy debates that raged on social media. The show will be hosted by Nina Farnia, with Corinna Mullin...

On our regular Friday podcast livestream, AISC members Nina Farnia, Navid Farnia, and Diego H. Alcalá Laboy discussed the latest news and offered analysis about West Asia's battle against empire. Watch the  video edition  on our YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penandmachete)  Instagram  (@penandmachete) Visit our  website  to join the newsletter and find our  blog , The Pen is My Machete. Donati...

AISC members Tamanisha John, Jemima Pierre, and Diego Alcalá Laboy join Navid Farnia to talk about U.S. imperialism's current machinations in the Caribbean and the current state of regional resistance and solidarity.  They discuss the U.S.'s ongoing colonial occupations of Haiti and Puerto Rico, along with the attacks on Cuba. Watch the video edition  on our YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@penan...

What fuels empire? This cross-collaboration podcast episode between AISC and The Red Nation Podcast brings AISC scholars Aby Sène and Jeannette Graulau into conversation with Nick Estes about the political economy of resource flows from Latin America and Africa. Sène and Graulau argue that we must understand imperialism's economic expressions to understand what raw materials create imperial supply...

AISC members Diego Alcalá Laboy, Jemima Pierre, and Navid Farnia focus on the Zionist-imperialist war against Iran and highlight how Iran is waging a strategic resistance campaign. They discuss how the situation reached this point, provide updates regarding battlefield developments, and examine the global implications of the war. Watch the  video edition  on our YouTube channel Follow AISC  X  (@p...

In this interview conducted by Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective member Corinna Mullin, H.E. Yuri Gala López, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cuba to the United Nations, reflects on the decades-long U.S. blockade and broader imperialist campaign of sabotage and ideological warfare directed at Cuba's socialist project, including recent escalations targeting the...

**Producer's note: Nina and Navid recently did an episode with Adnan Husain to his show. Watch the livestream edition on Adnan's channel**   Adnan is joined by Nina and Navid Farnia, members of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, to talk about the illegal imperialist US-Israeli-Western war launched against Iran. Please avail yourselves of the playlist Iran: History and Politics on this chann...

On this episode, AISC member Navid Farnia speaks with guest and friend of the show, Professor Setareh Sadeqi (@Leelako) . They discuss all things Iran and the United States, including the renewed negotiations between the two countries, the brutal Zionist-U.S. urban war against Iran in January, the possibility of U.S. military aggression, and Iran's preparedness. Watch the video edition on our YouT...

This episode, hosted by AISC member Bikrum Gill, addresses the recent US attack on Venezuela and the brazen kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. We are joined by journalist Camila Escalante, who begins the episode with important updates on the situation in Venezuela and shares key insights regarding the need to be vigilant against psychological warfare in this momen...

Hosted by AISC co-founder Nina Farnia, this episode features two distinguished guests and friends of AISC, Venezuela's former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Ron and University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi. We initially filmed a 2025 anti-imperialist roundup on December 30, 2025, but just a few days later the US invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady...