Journal of International Solidarity Resisting Western Ideological Warfare: The Politics of Anti-Imperialist Knowledge Production (w/ Jeannette Graulau & Charles Xu)
Mar 20, 2026
Charles Xu, organizer/editor with Sovereign Media and the Tiao Collective, builds anti-imperialist media bridges. Jeannette Graulau, political economy professor and Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective founder, focuses on U.S. empire and radical education. They probe unequal knowledge terrains, narrative warfare, diasporic intellectual roles, university tactics, platform censorship, and coalition strategies for anti-imperialist information work.
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Mainstream Liberal Media Cannot Be Reformed
- Mainstream liberal media cannot be reformed because its institutional logic is to mimic and serve bourgeois interests.
- The left's task is to delegitimize and replace that communication infrastructure, not save it.
Use University As Trojan Horse And Build Alternatives
- Use the university tactically as a Trojan horse for organizing and political education while building alternative counter-hegemonic education platforms.
- Link short-term tactics to a long-term socialist strategy to build a people's intellectual apparatus.
PhD Exit And Qian Shusen Example
- Charles left a Caltech PhD and joined Science for the People after seeing militarization and Silicon Valley capital envelop quantum information.
- He cites Qian Shusen as an example of returning scientists building sovereign technology back home.
