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Month: July 2025

Articles

‘Our Genocide’: Israeli Rights Groups Abandon Their Restraint on Gaza, by Shatha Yaish – 31 July 2025

From +972 Magazine After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now

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Interviews Podcasts

Being a Journalist in China. Interview with Luqiu Luwei and Fang Kecheng – 30 July 2025

For some in the West, being a journalist in China—especially one at a state media organisation—is seen as little more than parroting party propaganda. This

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Interviews

It Is Only a Matter of Time before the Communist Movement Reemerges in a New Historical Form. Interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde – 30 July 2025

An interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde from the forthcoming issue of Historical Expertise. Interviewer: Yurii Latysh. ­ Historical Expertise [HE]: Your book Fascism in the Middle

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Articles

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?, by Sinem Adar – 30 July 2025

From Foreign Policy In a carefully choreographed ceremony on July 11 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 30 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbolically burned their weapons. This

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Statements

As Scholars of Genocide, We Demand an End to Israel’s Atrocities, by Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch and Michael Rothberg – 29 July 2025

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now. The world has stood

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Articles

A Report on Standing Together’s Latest Activity, by Uri Weltmann – 26 July 2025

Uri Weltmann, Standing Together’s national field organiser, writes to supporters with an update on the movement’s latest activity. In the last few days, news about

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Articles

Asim Munir’s Promotion to Field Marshal Signals an Authoritarian Pakistan, by Salman Rafi Sheikh – 25 July 2025

From Himal Southasian After Pakistan’s military “win” in the May 2025 confrontation with India, the army under Asim Munir as field marshal has even greater

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Podcasts

East Africa’s Authoritarian Turn – 25 July 2025

Tanzanian rights campaigner Maria Sarungi-Tsehai and Mary Kambo of the Kenya Human Rights Commission join New Lines’ Kwangu Liwewe on the podcast to discuss the

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Articles

‘Double Tap’ Airstrikes: How Israel Targets Gaza Rescue Efforts, by Yuval Abraham – 24 July 2025

From +972 Magazine In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from

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Articles

Weaponizing the Female Body in Warfare, by Yulia Nightingale – 23 July 2025

In what ways do women’s bodies become both targets and instruments of war? How is this connected to the patriarchal logic underlying warfare? And how

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Interviews

For an Ecommunist Alternative to Degrowth and ‘Luxury’ Communism. Interview with Esteban Mercatante – 21 July 2025

In his new book, Rojo fuego. Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis), Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante

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Articles

Rightwing Populist Sanseitō Party Shakes Japan With Election Surge, by Rin Ushiyama – 21 July 2025

Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic

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Articles

Latin America’s Destituent Impasse, by Jeffery R Webber – 21 July 2025

This intervention offers a series of preliminary analytical arguments on the current Latin American political conjuncture. It argues that the period of progressive hegemony that

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Articles

Haftar and Hemedti: Patriots or Pawns in Trans-Saharan Business Interests?, by Musab Mohamed Ali Hassan Alnaser – 21 July 2025

From Atar: Sudan in Perspective The Haftar-Hemedti nexus rests on a shared ideology that scorns centralised state authority in favour of personal loyalty networks and

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Articles

The Southern Great Wall on the China-Myanmar Border, by Diego Ge – 19 July 2025

Funding both sides of a civil war and demonising refugees? Truly, China is a great power. “Our side is like heaven. Over there… I won’t

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Articles

Despite Calls for Calm, the Violence in Sweida Shows No Sign of Ending, by Santiago Montag and Hussam Hammoud – 18 July 2025

From New Lines Magazine Sweida, in southern Syria, a province once spared the worst of the country’s civil war, has become one of its most

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Articles

Escalating Violence Engulfs Syria’s Druze Mountain, by Cian Ward – 18 July 2025

From New Lines Magazine What began as intercommunal clashes in Sweida has mutated into a major security operation and Israeli intervention For months, Sweida in

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Articles

Iran’s Harrowing Drive to Deport Afghan Refugees, by Zahra Nader – 18 July 2025

From Himal Southasian Nearly a million Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran in 2025 – many after brutal detention and abuse – to face

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Articles

On Being Transfeminist in México, by Lorena Wolffer – 17 July 2025

Calling myself transfeminist is not just a political stance, it is a way of positioning myself in the world, a way of living in it.

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Articles

The Balancing Act for Israeli Druze, by Raslan Ibrahim – 17 July 2025

From New Lines Magazine They serve in the army, pay their taxes and obey the laws of the land, but have never been granted equality

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Interviews Podcasts

Anti-Racism, Class and History. Interview with David Roediger – 15 July 2025

Historian David Roediger discusses some of the people who’ve influenced him,white workers and Black struggles in the U.S., and some aspects of anti-racisttheory and politics

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Articles

Criminalization and Judicial Terrorism against Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala, by Giovanni Batz – 14 July 2025

The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing repression and criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan state. The April arrest of

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Articles

The Decolonial Literature of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, by Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy – 12 July 2025

From The Elephant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of the most prominent writers and philosophers in Africa and globally, passed away on 28 May 2025. Ngũgĩ’s

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Articles

On the Use of the Word ‘Genocide’ in Relation to Gaza at the Present Time, by Vincent Présumey – 11 July 2025

Clearly, the death toll in Gaza has exceeded 100,000. The vast majority of the victims are civilians of all ages. The 2.3 million inhabitants have

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Articles

Against Political Purity: A Reply to Eli Machover, by David Feldman, Ben Gidley, Brendan McGeever – 11 July 2025

The following is a reply to Vashti editor Eli Machover’s ‘The choice is one between anti-racism and Zionism as such’. You can read Professor David

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Articles

New Documentary ‘Double Minority’ Tackles Women’s Political Exclusion in Nigeria, by Oluwakemi Adelagun – 11 July 2025

From Premium Times The documentary amplifies the nationwide dialogue about gender imbalance in Nigeria’s politics In a significant step towards amplifying the voices of women

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Dossiers

Debating Venezuela, from Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal 

The following articles are among those which have been published by Links in a series entitled “Debating Venezuela” since August 2024. More articles are being

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Articles

Why Gender Is at the Heart of the Far-Right Agenda – And Why We Must Take It Seriously, by Andrea Dip – 9 July 2025

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide

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Interviews

Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025

What does the work of late Marx tell us about anti-colonial and indigenous struggles’ role in overcoming capitalism? What are the revolutionary trajectories of our

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Articles

Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Road to Another War, by The Somali Wire Team – 8 July 2025

In mid-June, a highly choreographed show of bonhomie was organised at the Mereb Bridge in Tigray, which connects Ethiopia’s northernmost region to Eritrea. Waving Eritrean and

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Books Interviews Podcasts

Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara. Interview with Judith Scheele – 7 July 2025

Episode Description What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine,

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Podcasts

The DR Congo-Rwanda Deal, Trump’s Mediation and African Politics – 5 July 2025

In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group’s Africa program director, to discuss the DR Congo-Rwanda deal, U.S.

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Articles

Russia Is Paying Schoolgirls To Have Babies. Why Is Pronatalism on the Rise Around the World? by Jennifer Mathers – 4 July 2025

In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new

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Books

Against Machismo in Organizing, by Guiomar Rovira – 4 July 2025

Note from the editors of Ojalá, where this article was originally published: This week we’re sharing the prologue to Irene Ragazzini’s La lucha dentro de

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Podcasts

Shahrukh Alam & Harsh Mander on How India’s Laws Are Being Weaponised Against Muslims – 2 July 2025

Shahrukh Alam, a lawyer practicing in India’s Supreme Court, dissects how the country’s law and order machinery has been turned against its Muslim citizens in

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Articles

Fabric of Resistance: Women’s Activism in Times of War, by Liliya Vezhevatova – 2 July 2025

How has women’s activism in Russia changed since February 24, 2022? Why have women-led, grassroots initiatives become one of the few resilient forms of resistance?

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Articles

The War from the Sky: How Drone Warfare Is Shaping the Conflict in Myanmar, by Su Mon – 1 July 2025

In Myanmar — where over four years of fighting since the 2021 coup has killed at least 80,000 people — aerial warfare has been crucial

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