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Month: May 2026

Articles

The State and Its Workers, by Yueran Zhang – 29 May 2026

From Phenomenal World China’s class politics after 1989 In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political

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Articles

Bolivarian Twilight, by Luis Bonilla-Molina – 29 May 2026

From Phenomenal World The recolonization of Venezuela As US planes, helicopters, and special forces stormed Caracas in the early hours of January 3, Vice President

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Statements

We Demand the Unconditional Release of Yaser Ahmadinejad! – 29 May 2026

Greetings to all the workers and toilers throughout Iran. A few days ago, we received news that was both happy and sad. We learned that

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Pamphlets, Zines, Guides

Field Guide to Antisemitic Comment Sections, by the Nexus Project – 29 May 2026

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Articles

Hope Against Hope, by Sahar Delijani – 29 May 2026

From Equator Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were

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Articles

The War Comes Home: A Field Report on Domestic Violence, by Chichak Darfash – 28 May 2026

In the months during which Iran’s economy has been worn down by inflation, job insecurity, and the consequences of war and regional conflict, working-class women

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Articles

How Israeli Classrooms Indoctrinate Jewish Supremacy. Interview with Nurit Peled-Elhanan – 28 May 2026

For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are “Arabs”, “enemies”, and a

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Articles

How Anarchists Saw the Iranian Revolution (Part 3), by Tom Goyens – 28 May 2026

Freedom of Choice The oppression of women in Iran remains one of the clearest expressions of the theocratic order established in 1979. The nationwide “Woman,

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Articles

Erika Kirk and TPUSA’s Submission Mission for Christian Nationalist Women, by GPAHE – 27 May 2026

Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the Christian nationalist youth organization now run by Erika Kirk, has announced the speakers for its 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit, TPUSA’s

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Articles

On Explaining China to Americans, by Diego Ge – 27 May 2026

From CIA recruits to Chinamaxxers I’ve been in the business of explaining China to Americans for around 4 years now – starting from online interactions

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Interviews Podcasts

The Political Economy of China. Interview with Ho-fung Hung – 24 May 2026

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Interviews Videos

“Everybody Loses in the Cynical Israeli-Palestinian Sexual Violence Competition”. Interview with Dahlia Scheindlin – 24 May 2026

00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:03:59 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Recap of the main points of Dahlia Scheindlin’s article (“Everybody Loses…”) 00:14:27 Propositions on the background of

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Articles

Everybody Loses in the Cynical Israeli-Palestinian Sexual Violence Competition, by Dahlia Scheindlin – 24 May 2026

Excerpt from an article published in Haaretz on 15 May 2026 The vast majority of responses to Nicholas Kristof’s column about sexual abuse of Palestinian

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Lenin Versus Democracy: A Reply to Critics of ‘Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism’, by Dan La Botz – 23 May 2026

In “Lenin Versus Democracy,” Dan La Botz replies to criticisms of his article “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism,” first published in LINKS International Journal of

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The Timorese Women’s Movement Continues the Struggle, by Muhammad Ammar Hidayahtulloh & Shelli Israelsen – 20 May 2026

Even as formal recognition of gender equality has progressed over the 24 years since Timor-Leste’s independence, the legacy of the resistance against Indonesian occupation still

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Articles

The Kremlin’s Perfect Storm, by the Posle Editorial Collective – 19 May 2026

By early May, Putin’s regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, and a visibly faltering state response to crises

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Articles

Inventing the Kurdish Enemy: How States, Nationalism, and Conspiracy Theories Turned a People Into an Enemy, by Jan Ilhan Kizilhan – 17 May 2026

Few peoples in the Middle East have been portrayed as a threat as often as the Kurds. For some, they are separatists. For others, terrorists,

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Articles

How Anarchists Saw the Iranian Revolution (Part 2), by Tom Goyens – 17 May 2026

Toward the Divine State From the beginning, anarchists suspected that Iran’s revolution might end not in freedom, but in clerical rule. Today, with the benefit

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Articles

The Women Organising Homes and Labour, by Liam Taylor – 16 May 2026

Domestic worker activism is on the rise in Kenya – and across the continent. Liam Taylor is a freelance journalist. This article originally appeared appeared

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Articles

Despite Claim to be Leftists, Signatories of Counterpunch Letter Glowingly Praise an Authoritarian Theocracy, by Brian Hioe – 12 May 2026

A recent letter published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the

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Articles

Germany, Ukraine, and the Changes in German Memory Culture Since Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion. Interview with Franziska Davies – 9 May 2026

On the occasion of May 8th, Franziska Davies spoke to Vasyl Korotkyi about the changes in German memory culture with regard to Ukraine and the

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Interviews Videos

How Britain’s Establishment made the Far Right Respectable. Interview with Daniel Trilling – 8 May 2026

Reform UK has just swept councils across England and made significant gains in devolved elections. How did a party of the radical right get here

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Articles

Gen Z’s Struggle Hijacked in Madagascar, by Paul Martial – 7 May 2026

The military’s record — having seized power by presenting themselves as the people’s protectors against the former repressive regime — is hardly impressive. In late

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Articles

How Iran’s State Uses Women in Nighttime Rallies. Interview with Azadeh Kian – 7 May 2026

As women’s presence in state-sponsored nighttime rallies in Iran has increased during the war and even after the ceasefire, this presence has become not only

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Articles

Executions After War: The Islamic Republic Settles Accounts with Protesters, by Zamaneh Media – 7 May 2026

In the past week, the Islamic Republic executed at least 11 prisoners whose cases had been reported by human rights organizations and state media: Peyman

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Articles

Palestinians Out, Foreign Workers In: How Israel Is Remaking Its Labor Force, by Charlotte Ritz-Jack and Dana Mills – 6 May 2026

From +972 Magazine A garbage truck’s tailgate opens slowly. Inside, around 70 Palestinian men are packed tightly together, their eyes struggling to adjust to the

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Articles Reports

‘Harmonization Plan’ Erasing Tibetan Language, by HRW – 4 May 2026

A 2021 Ministry of Education directive – the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan – mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and

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Articles

Confusions Between Far-Right and Left Discourse Are Spreading Internationally, by Philippe Corcuff – 2 May 2026

An international petition against the US-Israeli war on Iran, titled “A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity” and signed by 175 “personalities” from 30 countries,

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Articles

Why does Fujimorism still haunt Perú?, by Víctor Miguel Castillo – 1 May 2026

A specter is haunting Peru. It isn’t the same one that terrorized the elites in the 20th century, or that of revolutions that promised to

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