https://znetwork.org/author/federicofuentesguestwriter/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:17:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/federicofuentesguestwriter/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-for-a-wage-rise-is-also-an-act-of-resistance-against-imperial-tutelage-interview-with-venezuelan-retired-oil-workers-leader-denis-ospino/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-for-a-wage-rise-is-also-an-act-of-resistance-against-imperial-tutelage-interview-with-venezuelan-retired-oil-workers-leader-denis-ospino/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297421 Retired oil worker Denis Ospino was a prominent part of the revolutionary resistance against the 2002–03 management lockout at Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA. She was crucial to restoring and stabilising oil production, playing an active role in protecting the Western Oil Production Directorate headquarters, and as part of the civilian and reserve unit defending [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fighting-for-a-wage-rise-is-also-an-act-of-resistance-against-imperial-tutelage-interview-with-venezuelan-retired-oil-workers-leader-denis-ospino/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:16:23 +0000 Confusion and concern have followed the rapid pace of events in Venezuela after the US military incursion on January 3. Since then, the Venezuelan government has started to open its oil and mineral industries to transnational corporations, while there has been a constant parade of US officials and military leaders through the country. How should [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelan-leftist-recuperating-sovereignty-and-control-over-our-resources-is-essential/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manila-is-attempting-to-trigger-an-incident-with-china-as-a-pretext-for-us-imperialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manila-is-attempting-to-trigger-an-incident-with-china-as-a-pretext-for-us-imperialism/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:17:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294521 Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran Filipino socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the final instalment of this three-part series, Delizo talks to Federico Fuentes from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal about Manila’s attempts to trigger incidents that could create a pretext for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/manila-is-attempting-to-trigger-an-incident-with-china-as-a-pretext-for-us-imperialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-after-the-coup/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-after-the-coup/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294439 President Donald Trump implemented his National Security Strategy’s Donroe Doctrine by carrying out a coup in Venezuela. His aim is to carve out an exclusive sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, impose imperial rule over its countries, and push out rivals, especially China. In the first move of this strategy, Trump concocted false allegations [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-after-the-coup/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:55:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294233 The US government’s January 3 military assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of then President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores, sent shockwaves through the region. It has also sparked intense discussions about why and how it was able to occur, what the new Delcy Rodríguez government represents and what it all means for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-imperialism-madurismo-without-maduro-and-venezuelan-sovereignty-after-january-3/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/broad-united-response-needed-to-trumps-military-build-up-in-the-caribbean/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/broad-united-response-needed-to-trumps-military-build-up-in-the-caribbean/#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:29:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288765 As many as nine United States warships remain stationed in or around the Caribbean since their deployment in mid-August. Additionally, five F-35 fighter jets landed in Puerto Rico on September 13, following US President Donald Trump’s order that 10 stealth fighters accompany the military operation being carried on the pretext of combatting drug trafficking. Adding to the tension, US forces launched separate missile strikes on two small vessels in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/broad-united-response-needed-to-trumps-military-build-up-in-the-caribbean/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trump-set-to-invade-venezuela/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trump-set-to-invade-venezuela/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288173 Having doubled the bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to US$50 million, the United States government started announcing the deployment of as many as nine warships throughout the Caribbean in mid-August, including destroyers, amphibious assault ships, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear submarine, about 1200 missiles and up to 6500 marines. The pretext is fighting drug [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trump-set-to-invade-venezuela/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-venezuelas-sovereignty-from-a-working-class-perspective/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-venezuelas-sovereignty-from-a-working-class-perspective/#respond Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:54:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287385 Salvador De León is a member of the Comité Autónomo e Independiente de Trabajadores(as) (Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee, CAIT). Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, De León looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-venezuelas-sovereignty-from-a-working-class-perspective/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/long-wave-theory-globalisations-end-and-the-coming-crises-an-interview-with-william-jefferies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/long-wave-theory-globalisations-end-and-the-coming-crises-an-interview-with-william-jefferies/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:12:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287171 William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Jefferies sat down with Federico Fuentes, from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, for this wide-ranging discussion on the usefulness of long wave theory for understanding the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/long-wave-theory-globalisations-end-and-the-coming-crises-an-interview-with-william-jefferies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marx-on-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marx-on-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:31:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286241 In this latest book, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism, Marxist sociologist Kevin B Anderson delves into Karl Marx’s final writings — some of which have only recently come to light — to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology, Political Science and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/marx-on-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-imperialist-powers-capitalist-unipolarity-and-proletarian-internationalism-an-interview-with-rasti-delizo-part-ii/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-imperialist-powers-capitalist-unipolarity-and-proletarian-internationalism-an-interview-with-rasti-delizo-part-ii/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:34:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286160 Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the second part of this extensive interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Delizo accounts for the rise of new imperialist powers, outlines the faulty logic behind [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-imperialist-powers-capitalist-unipolarity-and-proletarian-internationalism-an-interview-with-rasti-delizo-part-ii/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/could-trumps-tariff-war-reshape-global-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/could-trumps-tariff-war-reshape-global-capitalism/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283125 Sam Gindin is a former research director for the Canadian Auto Workers union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University. He is also the coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (with Leo Panitch), In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/could-trumps-tariff-war-reshape-global-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/behind-trumps-spiralling-tariff-war-an-interview-with-marxist-economist-michael-roberts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/behind-trumps-spiralling-tariff-war-an-interview-with-marxist-economist-michael-roberts/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:43:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282130 Michael Roberts is a Marxist economist who worked in the City of London for more than 40 years and writes on economic issues at The Next Recession. He is also the author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalismand Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value (with Guglielmo Carchedi).  In this interview [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/behind-trumps-spiralling-tariff-war-an-interview-with-marxist-economist-michael-roberts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/crude-capitalism-new-centres-of-capital-accumulation-and-the-middle-easts-place-in-global-imperialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/crude-capitalism-new-centres-of-capital-accumulation-and-the-middle-easts-place-in-global-imperialism/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281830 Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. His latest book is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. In this broad-ranging interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/crude-capitalism-new-centres-of-capital-accumulation-and-the-middle-easts-place-in-global-imperialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-silence-is-viewed-as-dissent-an-interview-russian-trade-unionist-pavel-kudyukin/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-silence-is-viewed-as-dissent-an-interview-russian-trade-unionist-pavel-kudyukin/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281194 Pavel Kudyukin is co-chair of the University Solidarity trade union and a member of the Council of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (KTR). He also served as Russia’ deputy minister of labour (1991-93). In this extensive interview with Federico Fuentes and Serhii Shlyapnikov for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Kudyukin talks about the situation of workers [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/even-silence-is-viewed-as-dissent-an-interview-russian-trade-unionist-pavel-kudyukin/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russian-anti-war-socialists-a-trump-putin-deal-will-only-lead-to-more-wars/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russian-anti-war-socialists-a-trump-putin-deal-will-only-lead-to-more-wars/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:12:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280813 Russian socialists and anti-war activists have condemned the so-called “peace deal” for Ukraine being negotiated between Russia and the United States, warning it will bring new wars. They say plans to carve up Ukraine between two powers would only “untie the hands of all imperialists”. Following a phone conversation a week earlier between the US [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russian-anti-war-socialists-a-trump-putin-deal-will-only-lead-to-more-wars/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maduro-has-done-tremendous-damage-to-the-left-an-interview-with-atenea-jimenez/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maduro-has-done-tremendous-damage-to-the-left-an-interview-with-atenea-jimenez/#respond Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:39:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280140 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maduro-has-done-tremendous-damage-to-the-left-an-interview-with-atenea-jimenez/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-for-military-intervention-repression-mark-presidential-inauguration/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-for-military-intervention-repression-mark-presidential-inauguration/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:20:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278645 Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a controversial third term on January 10, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared he won Venezuela’s disputed July 28 elections without publishing results. A heavy presence of security forces and wave of arbitrary arrests in the days prior ensured the country’s streets were largely quiet. Meanwhile, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-for-military-intervention-repression-mark-presidential-inauguration/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-amid-fears-of-new-sanctions-disputed-election-maduro-proposes-more-privatisations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-amid-fears-of-new-sanctions-disputed-election-maduro-proposes-more-privatisations/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:18:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276808 Speculation of more privatisations by the Nicolás Maduro government is growing amid fears incoming United States president Donald Trump may tighten sanctions on Venezuela. The moves also come as Maduro seeks to further consolidate the support of Venezuelan capitalists after his disputed re-election on July 28. Colombian president Gustavo Petro raised alarm over plans to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-amid-fears-of-new-sanctions-disputed-election-maduro-proposes-more-privatisations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-tense-calm-reigns-ahead-of-threats-of-dual-presidential-inaugurations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-tense-calm-reigns-ahead-of-threats-of-dual-presidential-inaugurations/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:27:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276669 A tense calm reigns in Venezuela as inauguration day approaches, with two candidates vowing to be sworn in as president. Incumbent president Nicolás Maduro has declared he will attend the official inauguration ceremony in the National Assembly on January 10. The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro winner of the July 28 presidential election, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-tense-calm-reigns-ahead-of-threats-of-dual-presidential-inaugurations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/apathy-not-war-fatigue-in-ukraine-most-people-no-longer-expect-anything/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/apathy-not-war-fatigue-in-ukraine-most-people-no-longer-expect-anything/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276553 Yuriy Samoilov is an Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine (NPGU) leader in Kryvyi Rih and an activist with the Ukrainian left-wing organisation Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, conducted with the help of Serhii Shlyapnikov, Samoilov provides a left-wing and trade union perspective on the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/apathy-not-war-fatigue-in-ukraine-most-people-no-longer-expect-anything/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maria-alejandra-diaz-popular-democratic-front-institutional-avenues-for-resolving-venezuelas-political-crisis-are-being-dangerous-closed-off/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maria-alejandra-diaz-popular-democratic-front-institutional-avenues-for-resolving-venezuelas-political-crisis-are-being-dangerous-closed-off/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:08:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275538 Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist María Alejandra Díaz has become a symbol of why, as she puts it, the rule of law in Venezuela is “in frank deterioration” after the July 28 presidential elections. Given lingering doubts over who won — the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner, but the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/maria-alejandra-diaz-popular-democratic-front-institutional-avenues-for-resolving-venezuelas-political-crisis-are-being-dangerous-closed-off/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-court-rejects-appeal-by-left-wing-opposition-to-publish-presidential-election-results/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-court-rejects-appeal-by-left-wing-opposition-to-publish-presidential-election-results/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274973 More than two months after the passing of a 30-day legal deadline, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) has still not published the full results of the July 28 presidential election. Despite this, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) rejected an appeal on November 4 calling on it to request the CNE comply with Article [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-court-rejects-appeal-by-left-wing-opposition-to-publish-presidential-election-results/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-seminar-to-support-jailed-russian-socialist-boris-kagarlitsky/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-seminar-to-support-jailed-russian-socialist-boris-kagarlitsky/#respond Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272849 Academics and activists from Russia and around the world will address an online conference on October 8 in support of jailed Marxist sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. This comes four months after the Judicial Collegium for Military Personnel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the five-year prison sentence handed to Kagarlitsky for the trumped-up [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/global-seminar-to-support-jailed-russian-socialist-boris-kagarlitsky/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-the-majority-want-hostage-deal-that-ends-the-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-the-majority-want-hostage-deal-that-ends-the-war/#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:27:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272406 Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks, with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to demand a hostage deal with Hamas. The protests came in the wake of news reports on August 30 alleging that [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-the-majority-want-hostage-deal-that-ends-the-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-venezuelas-bolivarian-process/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-venezuelas-bolivarian-process/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:19:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272202 Gerardo Rojas is a community organiser in Barquisimeto, Lara, and a Chavista activist, a reference to the political movement of the working-class poor that backed former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. A founder of the alternative media collective Voces Urgentes (Urgent Voices) in 2002, he participated in one of the first urban communes, Comuna Socialista Ataroa (2007). Rojas was a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-venezuelas-bolivarian-process/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelas-presidential-elections-attempted-coup-or-fraud-an-interview-with-reinaldo-iturriza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelas-presidential-elections-attempted-coup-or-fraud-an-interview-with-reinaldo-iturriza/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:44:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271695 Writer, activist, sociologist and director of the Centre for Studies for Socialist Democracy Reinaldo Antonio Iturriza López discusses the competing — and inadequate — narratives surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election in this interview conducted by Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. The July 28 presidential election seems to be a repeat of previous elections, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuelas-presidential-elections-attempted-coup-or-fraud-an-interview-with-reinaldo-iturriza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-grow-for-transparency-on-presidential-vote/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-grow-for-transparency-on-presidential-vote/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270931 Green Left’s Kerry Smith sat down with Latin American politics writer Federico Fuentes to break down the July 28 Venezuelan presidential elections and its aftermath. Could you give some background to what was at stake in Venezuela’s recent election? There were at least two issues at stake: first, the direction Venezuela would head politically; and second, whether some form [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-calls-grow-for-transparency-on-presidential-vote/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-and-radical-left-after-the-european-and-french-elections/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-and-radical-left-after-the-european-and-french-elections/#respond Sat, 27 Jul 2024 16:12:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269909 Pablo Stefanoni is a journalist, editor and author of ¿La rebeldía se volvió de derechas? (Has Rebellion Become a Thing of the Right?). Currently based in Paris, he spoke to Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal about the recent European and French elections — in which the former saw a strong showing for the far right [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-and-radical-left-after-the-european-and-french-elections/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-empire-global-capitalism-and-the-internationalisation-of-states/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-empire-global-capitalism-and-the-internationalisation-of-states/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:47:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269222 Sam Gindin is a former research director for the Canadian Auto Workers union and Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University. He is also the coauthor of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (with Leo Panitch), In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Panitch), [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-empire-global-capitalism-and-the-internationalisation-of-states/feed/ 0