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Letters from the American Empire: September 17, 2026

Last week marked a quarter century since September 11, 2001. The attacks on the United States precipitated what the Indian Marxist Aijaz Ahmad called in an eponymous essay and book, “the imperialism of our time.” In his 2004 essay, he sough...

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Indigenous Anti-Communism: Haunting Spectre of Ward Churchill

**Producer’s note: TRN Podcast host Nick Estes joined Red Media-produced TYMSYY podcast, hosted by Sardana Nikolaeva and Masha Kardashevskaya, to talk about anti-communism, pretendianism, and the outsized role of Ward Churchill. Subscribe t...

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LIVESTREAM today! Psychic Militancy: Theory and Praxis w/ Lara Sheehi

Join TRN Podcast host Nick Estes on Wednesday at 2 PM CT (3 PM EST, 1 PM MST, 12 PM PST) for a special livestream featuring Lara Sheehi from ‪@PsychicMilitancy‬

We are looking forward to your questions and comments! As always, patrons...

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The Counter-Revolution of Capital

This essay originally appeared as the introduction to “250 Years of Counterrevolution” in the August issue My Pen Is My Machete, the magazine for the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective.

This past July, the United States celebrated the 2...

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Livestream: Guerrilla Intellectuals: Theory and Practice (Tuesday, September 8, 9 am ET // 10 am CT // 11 am MT)

From the belly of the empire to the frontlines of global liberation struggles, what does it mean to be an intellectual in service of mass movements?

In this episode, Nick Estes (The Red Nation) and Pranay Somayajula sit down to dissect...

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