Return To Bandung
@ReturnToBandung
A podcast that explores questions of imperialism, resistance, and internationalism throughout history and into the present day. Host: @p_somayajula
Columbia students nearly booed President Claire Shipman off stage, chanting “Free Mahmoud Khalil” over her hollow speech about “shaping these interesting times.” Khalil has been held by ICE for 10 weeks without charges.
Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread, meat, shoes, coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything" @ReturnToBandung & I on how societies are being beat back into poverty open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZJ1…
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🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 21 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by critical developmental economist @Jayati1609 to discuss the complex and multifaceted relationship between imperialism and international development. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/6y7q0o…

In India, 250 million workers joined the General Strike on 9 July 2025. These pictures are from Gujarat, where women workers came out against the anti-labour policies of the BJP government. Humanity marches on.
Insane. Solidarity with @FranceskAlbs
SCOOP: The Trump administration is moving to place US sanctions on UN expert Francesca Albanese — one of the most prominent critics of the US-backed Israeli offensive in Gaza Tied to her work with the ICC, the move comes as ICC target Netanyahu visits DC huffpost.com/entry/francesc…
wrote about the legacies of third worldism, 70 years on from the bandung conference, and why our present moment demands a revival of anticolonial internationalism on the left culture-shock.xyz/p/this-is-the-…
This is an excellent historical summary and imagining of a future project of global south solidarity and internationalism. Shoutout @ReturnToBandung!
For 60+ years, the US has deliberately starved the Cuban people in the hopes of instigating regime change. The blockade is one of the most inhumane, blatantly imperialistic, and criminal things the US has ever done. May it one day fall, and those responsible be held to account.
🚨 Today’s Cuba policy hits the regime where it hurts most: travel and dollars. We must cut off the regime’s oxygen. No more lifelines. No more cash flows. No more excuses. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…
🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 20 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by political anthropologist @samar42, author of War-Making as World-Making (@stanfordpress, 2024), to discuss how the U.S. outsources imperial violence to the Global South. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/4GvNEH…

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 19 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode I'm joined by Hafsa Kanjwal, Professor of South Asian History and author of Colonizing Kashmir (@stanfordpress, 2023), to discuss the history of colonization and resistance in Kashmir. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0gSkYx…

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):
Trump has banned the travel of foreign nationals from 12 countries. The common thread? Each country on the list has been bombed, destabilized, or interfered with by the U.S.
A new poll finds that 79% of countries around the world have a more positive view of China than the US. The poll, conducted by a Danish-based organisation, surveyed more than 110,000 people from 100 countries.
🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 18 OUT NOW🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by acclaimed anticolonial scholar @PriyamvadaGopal to discuss the fraught politics of 'decolonization' — what it means, how it's been used, and how we can reclaim it. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0H1OAE…

🚨🚨 RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 17 OUT NOW 🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by critical economists @nssylla and @farwasial of @DevEconNetwork to discuss how the international financial system upholds imperialist domination over the Global South. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0LoOl2…

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 16 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by @70sBachchan, co-editor of @phenomenalworld's @polycrisis, to discuss the many crises facing our world today—from climate collapse to the rise of the far-right and more. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZJ1…

🚨🚨RETURN TO BANDUNG EP. 15 OUT NOW🚨🚨 In this episode, I'm joined by @RadDesai, Director of @GERGconf and co-host of @GeopoliticalEcon's Geopolitical Economy Hour, to discuss dollar imperialism and dedollarization. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/5VHTQM…

As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, RTB host @p_somayajula reflects on Third Worldism and its legacies in the latest issue of @proteanmag. Check it out: proteanmag.com/2025/04/18/ban…
From Issue V: Initial aims of the Bandung Conference and Third Worldism were far more radical than the historical eventuality. Exactly 70 years after Bandung, Pranay Somayajula writes on the contradictions—and imperial subterfuge—that dimmed its hopes. proteanmag.com/2025/04/18/ban…