A Vietnam in the Field of Culture: The Cultural Congress of Havana, 1968
In 1968, delegates from seventy countries gathered in Havana to confront cultural imperialism and imagine culture as a decisive front of anti-imperialist struggle.

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.


The modern capitalist world was built not only in banks and factories but also through the plantations, ports, and ships that transformed sugar and enslaved human beings into sources of global profit.


Political economy from the three continents that produce the world's wealth and retain the least of it. Tools for understanding why the chains persist, and how to break them. Follow and subscribe to the Substack here.