Why imperialism? This issue of the IDS Bulletin is largely about the impact of the central capitalist countries of Western Europe and North America upon the Third World.

Sometimes this is talked of in terms of the 'dependence' of the latter upon the former. 'Dependence', however, connotes a certain passivity or want of will. Whereas imperialism conveys more clearly that this dependence has been imposed; and further that present dependence is historically linked to past domination.

And new tactics? A deliberate ambiguity: both new tactics and forms of domination, and new tactics, new room for manoeuvre against it.