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Month: March 2026

Articles

Who Are Sudan’s Islamists?, by Alex Thurston – 30 March 2026

On March 9, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department was “designating the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global

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Videos Webinars

Oksana Dutchak on War, Austerity and Care – 29 March 2026

00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:35 Oksana Dutchak introduces herself and her research 00:07:22 Core concepts of feminist social reproduction theory 00:29:39 Q&A: hierarchies of care

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Articles

Trumpism in Nigeria, by Nanre Nafziger and Adam Khalid Muhammad – 27 March 2026

From Africa is a Country Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation? Trump’s posting of racist

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Articles

“If I Said I Was Leaving Cuba, They’d Roll Out the Red Carpet — but I Want Change From Within”. Interview with Alina López Hernández – 26 March 2026

“It causes me great pain every time I see people of good faith — because I know they act in good faith — reducing Cuba’s

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Articles

How Transgender Amendment Bill Erases The Existence Of Transmasculine And Non-Binary Persons [in India], by Soumili Paul – 26 March 2026

From Feminism in India The Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 25th March 2026. The bill was earlier passed by

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Interviews Podcasts

Being Muslim in China. Interview with Rian Thum and Darren Byler – 25 March 2026

This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies

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Articles

A Utopia of Workers and Partisans, by Nadya Krupenkova – 25 March 2026

Who invents the national mythology of Belarus? What purposes do new narratives about the country’s past actually serve? Nationalism scholar Nadya Krupenkova examines the top-down

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Articles

‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ and the Perils of ‘Nationalist’ Violence, by Nissim Mannathukkaren – 24 March 2026

Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Department of International Development Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of ‘Communism,

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Articles

From Chile to the Philippines, Meet the People Pushing Back on AI, by Daniela Dib and Rina Chandran – 24 March 2026

From Rest of World Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech’s AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital

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Articles

26th of February 2014: Russia Invades Ukraine, by Franziska Davies – 24 March 2026

A month ago, many articles appeared to remind the Western public of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This wave of articles

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Articles

War with Iran Is Sparking an Antisemitic Chain Reaction, by Jonathan Jacoby – 21 March 2026

From The Hill A dangerous chain reaction is underway and it may only be beginning. In the wake of U.S. and Israeli military strikes on

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Articles

Empathising With Iran Must Recognise the Internal Struggle Against Religious Despotism, by Nissim Mannathukkaren – 20 March 2026

The progressive foreign response has often privileged geopolitics and anti-American imperialism at the cost of the struggle for democracy in Iran. The 13th century Persian

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Articles

The Manosphere Is a Pipeline to Antisemitism, by the Nexus Project – 19 March 2026

For more than a year, Nexus has been tracking the connection between the “manosphere” and antisemitism. A new Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,

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Articles

Iran between Repression, Co-optation, and War: Three Waves of Counterrevolution, by Somayeh Rostampour – 19 March 2026

In the following analysis, Somayeh Rostampour shows how the repression that the Iranian government has carried out to crush protests, the monarchist attempt to co-opt

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Articles

Progressive Jews Are Deeply Distressed by the Rising Antisemitism on Their Own Side, by Jay Michaelson – 19 March 2026

Discourse about antisemitism in America has become a hopeless, meaningless mess. Particularly in the last few years, pro-Israel and right-wing organizations and politicians have insisted

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Statements

Communiqué: Reflections from the Webinar on the Proposed African Charter on Family, Values and Sovereignty, by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) – 19 March 2026

The recent webinar convened by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) under its Countering Anti-Rights Actors (CARA) thematic area marked an important moment

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Articles

Moral Economy and the Dutertes’ Political Durability, by John Lee Candelaria – 19 March 2026

Rodrigo Duterte can no longer perform the strongman persona that supposedly generated his appeal, yet the political loyalty towards him has only intensified. “Charisma” can’t

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Articles

The US & Israeli War with Iran: What Is a Needed Approach for a Principled Socialist Left?, by Frieda Afary – 18 March 2026

I.  What has happened since the United States and Israel launched the latest war on Iran? The United States and Israel started a new round

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Articles

What the Islamic Republic Learned About Repression From Syria, by Holly Dagres – 18 March 2026

From New Lines Magazine Iran helped the Assad regime crush unarmed protests with staggering violence starting 2011. Now, it has turned those same tactics on

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Articles

Kharg, Hormuz, and the Boundaries of U.S. Power, by Siyâvash Shahabi – 17 March 2026

The US attacked Kharg, but it did not hit Iran’s oil export terminal there. That apparent contradiction may explain the nature of this war better

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Articles

Toxic Pacifism. Interview with Mira – 17 March 2026

Solidarity Collectives: Who are you, and how would you describe yourself? What role do you play in Solidarity Collectives? Mira: My name is Mira, and

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Articles

Antisemitism Is Exploding on the Right but the Jewish Establishment Is Focused on the Left, by Jay Michaelson – 16 March 2026

Obsessed with Israel, the anti-antisemitism industry is failing to confront the threat of right-wing nationalism — and, in some cases, making it worse America’s antisemitism

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Interviews Podcasts

Upper Caste Liberalism. Interview with Ravikant Kisana – 16 March 2026

This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, about his book Meet

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Articles

Why We Must Fight the Draft Charter on Family Sovereignty and Values, by Sikhander Coopoo – 16 March 2026

From Conviction The draft African charter on family sovereignty and values is presented as cultural protection, but critics warn it functions as a coordinated anti

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Articles

On Collective Jewish Guilt, by Josh Yunis – 15 March 2026

Every week seems to bring news of another attempted massacre of diaspora Jews. This week, it was outside Detroit, Michigan, where an armed man rammed

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Videos Webinars

Bill Fletcher Jr. on Global Labour Movement Solidarity – 15 March 2026

00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:46 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Bill’s political biography 00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement 00:15:53 Race and class in the

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Books Interviews Videos

The World Elon Musk is Building. Interview with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff – 14 March 2026

If Fordism built the 20th-century welfare state, Muskism is designed to undo it. It’s a political economy where freedom means self-reliance through Musk’s technology –

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Articles

Senegal Moves to Double Prison Terms for Same-Sex Relations, by Daniel Anthony – 13 March 2026

From Fatteh Advocates say the proposed law has created an ‘atmosphere of terror’ among the local LGBTQ+ community and warn that, if passed, it would

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Interviews Podcasts

GOP’s Islamophobia Surge and the Christian Nationalist Agenda. Interview with Robert Downen – 12 March 2026

This week on Reign of Error, host Sarah Posner speaks with Texas Monthly senior writer Robert Downen about how long-standing anti-Muslim activism has moved from

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Articles

“A Man of Dagestan Would Rather Die on His Feet Than Become a Woman”, by Yekaterina Neroznikova – 11 March 2026

Why have misogynistic public narratives become so prevalent in Russia in recent years? What does the war in Ukraine have to do with it? Yekaterina

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Articles

Capitalism Is Not an “Epstein Conspiracy”, by Aaron Post – 11 March 2026

The phrase “Epstein class” is now in use as a shorthand for the forms of networking and mutual patronage practised by the rich and powerful

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Articles

Israel’s Renewed War on Lebanon Is about More than Just Hezbollah, by Elia Ayoub – 11 March 2026

After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions. I woke up

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Articles

The Next Target, by Selim Koru – 10 March 2026

From Equator Watching Turkish TV this past week has been a strange experience. Since 28 February, pro- and anti-Erdoğan channels have largely suspended their political

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Book reviews

Partitions and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Gita Ramaswamy – 9 March 2026

South Asian states have obscured longstanding cross-border ties in order to consolidate national control. This history shows that dominant national identities crystallised only in the

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Articles

Iran, the Western Left and the Ambiguity of Allies, by Sirantos Fotopoulos – 8 March 2026

A Left politics that instructs the Iranian feminist to defer her liberation to the requirements of the anti-Western imperial struggle is not offering her solidarity.

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Articles

The Limits of the Settler Colonial Analogy in South Asia, by Anubhav Singh – 8 March 2026

Is India’s role in Kashmir “settler colonial” or part of a shared legacy of internal colonialism across South Asia? India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit

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Articles

Iran’s Fearless Intellectuals, by Naghmeh Sohrabi – 7 March 2026

From Equator Before the bombs fell, I had started an archive of debates taking place inside Iran in the aftermath of the January protests and

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Interviews Podcasts

Birth Control, Bathrooms & Biblical Patriarchy. Interview with Sarah Jones – 5 March 2026

Sarah Posner sits down with New York Magazine senior writer Sarah Jones to unpack the accelerating assault on transgender rights in Kansas and beyond. They

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Articles

Coastal Revolt, by David Díaz-Arias & Jeffrey Gould – 5 March 2026

From Sidecar On 1 February, Laura Fernández of the ruling Partido Pueblo Soberano won the national elections in Costa Rica by a landslide. With 48

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Articles Book reviews

Marx Was No Friend of Moscow, by Rasmus Fleischer – 5 March 2026

As early as 1864, Europe’s left was split by a Russian war of aggression against a democratic neighbour — namely Poland. For Karl Marx, the

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Articles

Iran After Khamenei. Interview with Asef Bayat – 3 March 2026

From Boston Review Alex Shams: You have written extensively on sociopolitical transformations in the Middle East in recent decades, including the Arab Spring revolutions that

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Interviews Podcasts

Coming Out as Dalit. Interview with Yashica Dutt – 2 March 2026

This episode features Yashica Dutt, journalist and author of Coming Out as Dalit. We began with a discussion of her choice to write a memoir, the

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Articles

On Donald Trump & the U.S. Ruling Class: Bonapartism in America?, by Samuel Farber – March 2026

The rise of Donald Trump’s extreme right-wing authoritarianism, particularly during his second presidential term, has given rise to a multitude of interpretations of the social

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Articles

Why “Neutral” Anti-Imperialism Keeps Losing, by Siyâvash Shahabi – 1 March 2026

Let’s be blunt. Kidnapping, arresting, or killing a political figure of one country by another state is defined as illegal in international law, not because

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Statements

On the Ongoing War and the Urgency of Revolutionary Action, by Iran Labour Confederation – Abroad – 1 March 2026

The killing of Ali Khamenei, alongside a number of senior figures from the IRGC and the ruling apparatus, is an exceptional development in Iran’s current

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Interviews

Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War. Interview with Farooq Sulehria – 1 March 2026

As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under

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