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Month: January 2025

Articles

Back to The ’80s? Trump, Xi Jinping, and the Tariffs, by Andrew Liu – 30 January 2025

In 2011, Donald Trump spoke before an audience of about a thousand in Las Vegas, teasing a prospective, if fanciful, presidential run. Halfway through a

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The Student Revolt in Serbia: Vučić’s Nemesis?, by Ivaylo Dinev – 29 January 2025

Serbia has been shaken in recent months by student-led protests. What began as an isolated demonstration to honour the dead and demand accountability after a

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Interviews

We Need to Articulate Our Struggles. Interview with Catarina Martins – 29 January 2025

Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a

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Videos Webinars

Ben Wexler on the Idea of the Eternal Settler – 26 January 2025

00:00:00 Background information00:03:37 Start of Ben’s talk, introduction00:04:20 Theoretical background00:06:14 Thematic overview00:07:00 Real and imagined Jews in the history of European colonialism00:12:45 Activist settler colonialism

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Articles

Under Supervision, by Lavender Au – 23 January 2025

From The Dial Kevin Lee’s father used to grunt in affirmation if someone asked if Lee was a girl. He did the same if someone

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Interviews

Still Romanticizing Masculinity? Interview with Rahaf Aldoughli – 22 January 2025

Marta Bellingreri in discussion with Rahaf Aldoughli, author of Romancing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Ideology, and Identity In your book, you wrote about the

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Articles

The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think, by Sigal Samuel – 20 January 2025

The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump. From Vox.com There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking

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Dirtbag’s Nostalgia for the Old Working Class, by Comrade Motopu – 15 January 2025

Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost’s 2024 book Dirtbag. From Libcom This is a book about a millennial socialist’s ridiculous

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Podcasts

After Assad. A Conversation with Loubna Mrie and Omar Dahi – 15 January 2025

In the month since Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by a coalition of rebel forces, thousands of political prisoners have been released while many

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Articles

Old Autocrat, New Society: What to Expect from the Presidential Election in Belarus, by Olga Dryndova – 15 January 2025

The 2025 presidential election in Belarus is happening amid political repression, societal polarisation, Russian dominance, and Western sanctions. Autocrat Lukashenka hopes it will restore his

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China’s Forced Boarding Schools: The Systematic Erasure of Tibetan Cultural Identity, by Tibet Rights Collective – 15 January 2025

China’s ongoing policies in Tibet have long been criticized for undermining the region’s cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. A particularly alarming aspect of this strategy

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Articles

Mao’s Revolution: A Marxist Mode of Production Reinterpretation, by Richard Smith – 13 January 2025

This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.

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Articles

Why China Can’t Decarbonize, by Richard Smith – 13 January 2025

This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.

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Videos Webinars

Joe Grim Feinberg on Rethinking Colonialism and Imperialism – 12 January 2025

00:00:00 Introduction and background information00:03:40 Joe introduces himself and his work00:05:35 Nationalism and internationalism00:06:44 Imperialism and colonialism00:08:42 Recapitulation of the main points of Joe’s article00:21:44

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Overcoming the Rivalry Between Military Blocs in Europe, by Grigory Yudin and Ilya Budraitskis – 8 January 2025

What might a lasting peace look like from the leftist perspective? Upon what principles can a just European security architecture be established? In their report,

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Books Interviews

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet. Interview with Gerald Roche – 6 January 2025

Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,

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Articles

What Is the Duty of the Israeli Left in a Time of Genocide?, by Hadas Binyamini – 3 January 2025

From +972 Magazine Israeli leftists have been more divided and marginalized than ever since the October 7 assault, with joint Palestinian-Jewish struggle at a breaking

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