Factions of capital in the second Trump administration Hegemonic decline, according to the historian Fernand Braudel, has historically come with financialization. Amid declining profitability in
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This statement was published with over 1,200 signatures of academics based in Israel. For the online version of the letter in Hebrew, Arabic, and English
Though often declared dead, the discourse around ‘Asian values’ has had many lives. Authoritarian regimes have deployed culturalist arguments against liberal democracy since the 1990s,
One of my political heuristics is that New Zealand politics is five years behind the United States. If that’s true, then the broad Left has
Foreword While we are opposed to the dissolution of Urgence Palestine, we also believe a real clarification is necessary. The procedure initiated by Retailleau [translator’s
From ANF Melis Tantan says that Turkey’s energy strategy is based on colonialism and that energy has become a tool of domination for many states.
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
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In his recent analysis of sexuality in North Korea, proposed on his Youtube channel in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/?lankov?official), Andrei Lankov, a leading expert on Korea, offers
The region’s close political and economic links to Beijing loom large in explanations of why it remains in the democratic doldrums. But overemphasis on the
Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an, or Standing Together, is a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel that organises against racism and occupation, and for equality and social justice.
From +972 Magazine Genocidal rhetoric is not new to Israeli politics. But Gaza’s destruction mirrors the apocalyptic language pouring out of the Knesset — where
The Indonesia of Prabowo Subianto navigates international pressures and national ambitions, balancing Chinese control over nickel, tensions in the South China Sea and the return
Second English language issue of the Al Amal Newsletter. Contents: Statement of the Anarchist Group of Sudan From our deep understanding of social revolution as
The ceasefire is just the first step in the long walk to justice and peace We, feminists from India and Pakistan, unequivocally welcome the ceasefire
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Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. 1 – Introduction I would like to introduce the concept of confusionism, which I formulated for
Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. A few months into Donald Trump’s presidency, widely considered to be the most right-wing administration the
Today, Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing support the Kremlin’s war effort while it poses as anti-imperialist — but Iran, China, and Korea were once the prey
In an unprecedented move, India recently suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, citing cross-border terrorism. This was one of a series of escalations
I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones – Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere,
China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial RivalryBy Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu and Ashley SmithHaymarket Books, 2024 China in Global Capitalism
From The New Republic Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers,
Some 16,000 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities were returning home this weekend after attending the capital on International Workers’ Day… The Indigenous collective, known as
What do the lessons of WWII mean today? What stance should the international left take towards its legacy? And is it possible to resist the
This article first appeared in History Workshop Journal.
The Arakan state is a region of breathtaking landscapes and ancient kingdoms, but has become synonymous with one of the world’s most protracted and brutal
The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we were taught that the kings gave us everything we needed. That oil was a blessing from God. That obedience