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Month: October 2025

Articles

Sudan Drowning in Blood and Hunger, by Blade Runner – 31 October 2025

Darfur is engulfed in atrocity, with famine, mass killings and displacement now defining what remains of Sudan’s revolution. The city of El Fasher in the

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Interviews Podcasts

How Did Israeli Society Let This Happen? Interview with Eran Halperin – 30 October 2025

For over two years, the world has watched Israel carry out daily atrocities in Gaza and wondered: how did Israeli society allow this to happen?

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Articles

An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana, by Galina Rymbu – 30 October 2025

Originally published by the media resistance group. A feminist, anarchist, and poet living in Ukraine delivers a personal and political address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what

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Articles

Claiming Freedom in Revolution and in War: an Introduction to the Anarchist Group in Sudan, by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation – 30 October 2025

In 2024, Black Rose/Rosa Negra’s International Relations Committee began working closely with anarchist revolutionaries in Sudan. This relationship has involved the exchange of ideas, practical

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Articles

The RSF’s Capture of El Fasher, Sudan: A Roundup, by Alex Thurston – 29 October 2025

Mass killings in Darfur and a serious shift in the civil war On October 26, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El Fasher, Sudan after

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Articles

The Last Safe Space? Taiwan’s Fragile Role in Asia’s Shrinking Civic Space, by Antonio Prokscha – 29 October 2025

As governments across East and Southeast Asia tighten restrictions on activism and association, civic space is rapidly shrinking. Leah Lin, founder of the Asia Citizen

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Labour and (De)Industrialisation in East Asia. Interview with Anru Lee and Ya-Wen Lei – 29 October 2025

Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between

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Podcasts

The Making of Musk, Episode 4: The Great Trek – 28 October 2025

Finally, we launch into Musk’s ultimate quest — his desire to colonize Mars — and how he went from wanting to save earth to wanting

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Articles

Crackdown in Indonesia, Anarchists Appeal for Solidarity, by Cristina Sykes – 27 October 2025

State blames fabricated “Chaos Star” anarchist network for instigating grassroots uprising Anarchists in Indonesia are calling for international support for comrades imprisoned and tortured following the

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Articles

Nothing in Common, by Galina Rymbu – 26 October 2025

This text was originally published in Russian by the media resistance group. An English text based on it (which we have also reposted), was subsequently

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Articles

From Progressive Decomposition to “Capitalism for All” in Bolivia, by Huáscar Salazar Lohman – 24 October 2025

On October 20, Rodrigo Paz won the first runoff election in Bolivian history by promising economic stability. The Christian Democratic Party (PDC) candidate won the

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Articles

Peru: State of Emergency After Young Rapper Killed in Protests, by ANRed – 23 October 2025

Mass demonstrations accuse government of authoritarianism and corruption Tensions have surged in Peru after interim president José Jerí Oré declared a 30-day state of emergency

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Podcasts

Patriarchy, Policy, and Nationhood – 23 October 2025

In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen speaks with Aizada Arystanbek, a gender researcher whose work explores the intersection of patriarchy, policy, and

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Articles

Gaza and the Age of Impunity, by Seyla Benhabib – 22 October 2025

From Eurozine Under the Netanyahu government, Israel has aligned itself with an autocratic international whose goal is to transform sovereignty into state impunity. The war

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Podcasts

Kamal Nayan Choubey, Tariq Thachil & Harsh Mander on the RSS and Adivasis – 22 October 2025

Political scientists Tariq Thachil and Kamal Nayan Choubey speak to Harsh Mander about how the RSS and its offshoots have made inroads into and are

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Podcasts

The Making of Musk, Episode 3: The Legion – 21 October 2025

What does Musk, father of 14, expect from his “legion” of children? We unravel his quest for genetic optimization, including alleged embryo screening, and his

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Articles

Money, Muscles and Anxiety: Why the Manosphere Clicked With Young Men – A Visual Deep Dive by Anna Leach, Ed Gargan and Maeve Shearlaw – 21 October 2025

From The Guardian The ‘manosphere’ – a loose but large group of influencers making content aimed at men – is often described as a dark

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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies, by Alan Elrod – 20 October 2025

From Liberal Currents The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans. “The

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Articles

“Turning Point Taiwan” Memorial Turns Violent as Religious Right Gains Momentum in Taiwan, by Yo-Ling Chen – 19 October 2024

Yesterday morning during a memorial event entitled “Love, Faith, Courage: A Memorial for Charlie Kirk in Taiwan” organized by the Formosa Republican Association (FRA, 福和會)

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Notes on the Gen Z Revolts in Morocco and Madagascar, by Lundi Matin – 17 October 2025

During a trip to northern Morocco last week, I had the chance to meet two supporters of the GenZ212 movement that has been shaking the

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‘Caste Founded on Social Harmony’, Madhya Pradesh Government Tells Supreme Court; Experts Call It a Dangerous Historical Revision, by Oindrila Dasgupta – 17 October 2025

In an affidavit before the Supreme Court, the [BJP-controlled, editor’s note] Madhya Pradesh government claimed India’s caste system was founded on “social harmony, equality, and

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Podcasts

What Are You Fighting For? Sally Abed and Jess Bricker in Conversation – 16 October 2025

Everyone everywhere is talking about what they want the future in Israel-Palestine to look like, but what do we want it to look like? Sally

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Articles

The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War, by Husam Mahjoub – 15 October 2025

In one of its most important facets, Sudan’s war is a war against the revolution that began in December 2018 and endures in the daily

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Articles

Peru’s Gen Z Helps Bring Down the President, by Lucero Chávez – 15 October 2025

Inspired by a global wave of protest, Peru’s youth protesters have turned social media outrage into mass mobilization against corruption and repression Dozens of protesters

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Podcasts

The Making of Musk, Episode 2: Technocracy, Inc. – 14 October 2025

Could Musk’s authoritarian streak trace back to his Canadian grandfather? Before Joshua Haldeman brought his family to South Africa, he made waves as part of

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Book reviews

A Family Business, by Kim Phillips-Fein – 14 October 2025

From The Nation Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper 2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, liberals and the left

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Articles

The Race for Cheap, Quick Data in Africa, by Samanth Subramanian – 14 October 2025

From The Dial Meta has invested heavily in a submarine cable to Africa. What will it ask for in return? Ever since my fixation with

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Articles

Tokyo Turns Right: The New Era of Sanae Takaichi, by Andrea Ferrario – 13 October 2025

The first woman to reach the top of Japanese politics is also the most nationalistic. Amid echoes of Hitler, threats to the media and tensions

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Videos Webinars

Byron Clark and Daphne Lawless on Colonialism in the Pacific and the Left in New Zealand – 12 Oct 2025

00:00:00 Introduction by Daniel 00:07:40 Byron on settler colonialism in the Pacific, Polynesian resistance and the building of the nation state in New Zealand 00:23:10

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Podcasts

Trump’s ‘CEO of Everything’ – 12 October 2025

The billionaire Larry Ellison could soon control huge portions of America’s AI, attention economy and legacy media. He already owns swathes of AI infrastructure and

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Interviews Podcasts

Rethinking Palestinian Public Opinion. Interview with Zayne Abudaka – 9 October 2025

How do Palestinians conceive of liberation and hope today, after decades of disillusion, and beyond the narrow language of statehood? In this bleak moment, what

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Articles

Fight the Prejudices Which Feed the Horrors, by Will Roberts – 8 October 2025

The attack and murder at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Thursday 2 October (Yom Kippur) have brought antisemitism back to the

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Podcasts

The Making of Musk, Episode 1: Escape from Pretoria – 7 October 2025

Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for

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Articles

Belarus’s Informational Partisans, by Nikita Ivansky – 7 October 2025

Civilians face repression for sharing Russian troop movements In September 2025, opposition media in Belarus estimated that one thousand civilians —many unknown to to human

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Articles

The Settlers Bursting Tel Aviv’s Bubble, by Lisa Goldman – 7 October 2025

From New Lines Magazine The religious-nationalist right has targeted Israel’s most secular, liberal city The sound of male voices chanting the Sabbath liturgy was not

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Podcasts

What is the Role of Empathy? Sally Abed and Jess Bricker in Conversation – 3 October 2025

As we reach two years since October 7th and Israel’s assault on Gaza, Sally Abed and Jess Bricker reflect on the power and pitfalls of

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Interviews

“In the Western European Left, There’s a Desire To Put up a Wall and Ignore What’s Happening in the East”. Interview with Denys Gorbach – 3 October 2025

Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book ‘The Making

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Interviews Podcasts

Oyan, Qazaqstan and The Kazakh Spring. Interview with Asem Zhapisheva – 2 October 2025

In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen sits down with Asem Zhapisheva, journalist, activist, and a founding member of the civic movement Oyan,

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Articles

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression, by Nate Schenkkan – 2 October 2025

From Journal of Democracy This is the golden age of transnational repression, or the targeting of exiles and diasporas by the states they left behind.

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Pamphlets

Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting, by Ben Gidley and Daniel Mang – 1 October 2025

In this pamphlet, we, two of the authors of For a consistently democratic and internationalist left, return to some of the fault lines within this

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