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Month: May 2025

Articles

America’s Braudelian Autumn, by Benjamin Braun and Cédric Durand – 29 May 2025

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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Statements

An Urgent Call to the Heads of Academia in Israel, by the Black Flag Action Group – 27 May 2025

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

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Articles

Asian Values Remain the Go-to Defence of Illiberalism, by Mark R Thompson – 25 May 2025

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,

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Articles

A Vision for Radical Recomposition: Post-neoliberal and Anti-fascist Perspectives, by Daphne Lawless – 24 May 2025

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

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Statements

Urgence Palestine, neither Dissolution nor Confusion, by ASAP – 22 May 2025

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

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Interviews

A Colonial Mentality Lies at the Root of Turkey’s “Win-Win Energy Strategy”. Interview with Melis Tantan – 22 May 2025

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.

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Interviews

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism. A Conversation with Mingwei Huang – 20 May 2025

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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Articles

PKK Dissolution: The Long Goodbye to Vanguardism, by Blade Runner – 19 May 2025

The move reflects a broader strategic vision embracing gender liberation, pluralism, and local democracy The formal announcement of the PKK’s dissolution has sparked mixed reactions among Turkey’s Kurds and international

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Articles

Sex and Power in a North Korea in Transformation, by Andrea Ferrario – 18 May 2025

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

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Articles

Making Mainland Southeast Asia Safe for Autocracy, by Gregory Raymond – 16 May 2025

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

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Interviews

The Anti-War Left Makes Inroads in Israel. Interview With Uri Weltmann – May 2024

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.

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Articles

How Kahanism Found Its Way Into the Israeli Political Mainstream, by Natasha Roth-Rowland – 14 May 2025

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

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Articles

The Strategic Archipelago: Indonesia Between Contested Resources and Multipolar Policy, by Andrea Ferrario – 13 May 2025

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

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Journals

Updates from Sudan: Al Amal Issue #2 – 11 May 2025

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

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Statements

Urgent Call for Peace by Indian and Pakistani Feminists – 11 May 2025

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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Videos Webinars

Philippe Corcuff and Ben Gidley on Confusionism – 11 May 2025

Text of the presentation by Philippe Corcuff Text of the presentation by Ben Gidley

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Lectures Webinars

The Concept of Confusionism: A Tool for Thinking About the Links Between the Crisis of the Left and the Success of the Far Right in France And… Elsewhere?, by Philippe Corcuff – 11 May 2025

Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. 1 – Introduction I would like to introduce the concept of confusionism, which I formulated for

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Lectures Webinars

Understanding Confusionism and Diagonalism, by Ben Gidley – 11 May 2025

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

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Articles

The History of Aggression in Asia That Moscow Wants to Erase, by Oleksandr Polianichev – 9 May 2025

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

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Articles

India-Pakistan Conflict over Water Reflects a Region Increasingly Vulnerable to Climate Change, by Mehebub Sahana – 9 May 2025

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

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Articles

Ibrahim Traoré: Has Africa found a new Progressive Hero?, by Jibrin Ibrahim – 9 May 2025

I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones – Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere,

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Book reviews

China: A New Imperial Capitalist Power, by Chris Slee – 8 May 2025

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

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Articles

The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump, by Eric Alterman – 8 May 2025

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,

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Articles

Colombia: Indigenous Mobilisation for Peace, by Rob Latchford  – 7 May 2025

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

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Articles

Victory Day: Three Interventions from the Left, by the Posle Editorial Collective – 7 May 2025

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

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Articles

Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice, by Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková – 2 May 2025

This article first appeared in History Workshop Journal.

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Articles

The Unending Storm: Conflict, Power and Survival in Myanmar’s Arakan State, by Noor Sadaque – 2 May 2025

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

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Articles

Slovakia’s Toxic Bargain: How Red-Brown Politics Exploit Masculinity, by Karmína – 1 May 2025

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

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Articles

On May Day, I Light a Candle for the Silenced and Imprisoned Saudi Workers, by Hana Al-Khamri – 1 May 2025

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

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