The daughter of Caribbean labor radicalism enters the furnace of U.S. racial capitalism. The Communist Party becomes a battlefield over race, class, and the super-exploitation of Black women. McCarthyism criminalizes Black internationalism and deports a revolutionary. Exile in Britain transforms repression into new insurgent possibility. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters... Continue Reading →
Europe’s Generals and Europe’s People: War Readiness as a Ruling-Class Project
Military elites recast war as an unavoidable condition rather than a political choice. Selective facts and strategic silences transform militarization into common sense. “Preparedness” emerges as a method of social discipline under imperial strain. Working people confront a system demanding sacrifice while offering no future. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 1, 2026... Continue Reading →
Fists Against the World: The Boxer Rebellion and the War for China’s Soul
Read the previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism From the ashes of the... Continue Reading →
Of Rope and Revolution: The Thug, the Lumpen, and the World That Made Them
When labor is outlawed and life is disposable, strangulation becomes political economy By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | August 1, 2025 I. Of Beggars and Bandits: The Specter Beneath Civilization History, when written by the victorious pickpockets of the world-market, is quick to condemn those who steal outside its formal registers. And so we... Continue Reading →
Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market
How Britain’s opium gunboats shattered China’s agrarian order, dismembered its sovereignty, and inaugurated the long colonial century that revolution would one day buryBy Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information| July 26, 2025Exchange as Pretext, War as MechanismThe circulation of commodities requires peace; the expansion of capital requires war. In the case of China, this contradiction found... Continue Reading →
Roots In The Rubble: Reclaiming India’s Communal Lifeways From Colonial Ruin
Not despotism but defiance—how India's village communes preserved collective life beneath empire's boot, and why their shattered forms remain the soil of future socialismBy Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | July 25, 2025Beyond Asiatic DespotismLet us begin by tearing to shreds the musty European fairy tale that India is a land of timeless tyranny, a... Continue Reading →
Markets of Empire: Manchester, Colonial Plunder, and the Arithmetic of Global Capitalism
From the cotton of Bengal to the sugar of Jamaica, the wealth of the City was not born of free exchange—but of forced extraction.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationJuly 24, 2025The Architecture of CatharsisOn July 22, 2025, The Guardian published an article by Chris Osuh titled “Manchester’s Royal Exchange rooted in slavery and colonialism, research... Continue Reading →
Codifying the Conquest: Intellectual Property as Imperial Law
From pharmaceutical apartheid to digital colonialism, the TRIPS regime turns knowledge into property, and property into a weapon. To reclaim the future, we must delink from the empire of rent—and dismantle its legal machinery. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 29, 2025 I. From Conquest to Code: The Colonial Foundations of the IP... Continue Reading →