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Month: August 2026

Statements

Ukraine Needs International Solidarity as Russia Escalates Its Aggression, by Ukraine Solidarity Network (US) – 31 August 2026

As Russia escalates its attacks, Ukraine’s resistance holds, and peace negotiations are at an impasse, the people of Ukraine need international solidarity from anti-war people

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Articles

The Myth of Israel’s Arab Doctors, by Baker Zoubi – 31 August 2026

From +972 Magazine Celebrated as proof of Israeli liberalism and vilified by the right, Palestinian physicians are in fact being quietly shut out of the

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Articles

When the Mountain Breaks: Nepal’s Disaster and the Failure to Act Together, by Soumyajit Bhar – 29 August 2026

We are living through another great crisis in the Himalaya. On August 26, a mass of rock and ice collapsed high above the Nepal-Tibet border

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Articles

No Perfect Victims, No Innocent States, by radical dumpling – 29 August 2026

I was frustrated before I had even finished reading Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s warm publicized response letter to Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Partly because the message itself

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Articles

Anti-Imperialism Without Iranians, by Mina Fakhravar – 29 August 2026

The international left keeps asking Iranians which force is permitted to hurt them first. A solidarity that requires that answer is worth very little. I

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Articles

Can We Still Hope for Dr. King’s Dream?, by Charlotte Rubin – 28 August 2026

From Bond & Grace In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in jail after his arrest for peacefully protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Articles

Nepal Floods: China’s Strict Control of Tibet Makes It Harder to Prepare for Himalayan Disasters, by Dibyesh Anand – 28 August 2026

Within the space of a few minutes on August 26, the border crossing between Nepal and China – Rasuwagadhi on the Nepali side and Gyirong

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Articles

Contemporary Chinese Colonial Paternalism and the Hypocrisy of US Far-Left Denialism, by Dibyesh Anand – 27 August 2026

While the Chinese Communist Party has long implemented a colonial-paternalist mode of governance over Tibetans and Uyghurs, there is a curious phenomenon of a notable

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Interviews Podcasts

Beyond the Polls – Mapping the Israeli Electorate. Interview with Judy Maltz -26 August 2026

This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from August 26, 2026, the first part in our Israeli Election Webinar Series. Most of

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Articles

What They Don’t Like About the Guardian’s Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners, by Mina Khanlarzadeh – 25 August 2026

Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,

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Articles

Prashad Again Leaps to Defense of Mass Murderers in Effort to Delegitimize Open Letter on Iranian Political Prisoners, by Brian Hioe – 25 August 2026

In a typical course of action, Vijay Prashad has hit out at a letter by a number of prominent left intellectuals in The Guardian criticizing

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Books

Russia’s New Imperialism, by Ilya Budraitskis & Ilya Matveev – August 2026

The following is the introduction to Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev’s new book Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February

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Articles

The Ideologue Who Shaped Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Denial, by Kourosh Ziabari – 25 August 2026

From New Lines Magazine The former Iranian president’s relationship with Mohammad Ali Ramin sheds light on his personality and transformations, and the path that may

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Statements

Against the Hierarchy of Lives — a Call for an Internationalism from Below, by Roud Collective – 25 August 2026

To the authors and signatories of the open letter in support of prisoners’ resistance against executions in Iran, and to the awakened consciences of the

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Statements

Statement from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now on the “Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners” – 24 August 2026

We firmly stand with the overall spirit and thrust of the “Open Letter To Iran’s Political Prisoners, trapped between the two blades of a scissors”

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Articles

Who Names the World? Anti-Imperialism and Iran’s Political Prisoners, by Farah Mokhtareizadeh – 24 August 2026

On June 24, 2025, the day after Israel bombed Evin Prison, the Iranian labor activist and former political prisoner Keyvan Mohtadi wrote about the people

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Articles

U.S. Pushes Expansion of the Anti-Abortion and Anti-LGBTQ+ Geneva Consensus Declaration in Latin America, by GPAHE – 24 August 2026

From Global Project Against Hate and Extremism Key Takeaways [READ THE REST] Launched in 2020, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) was founded

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Interviews

“Genocide Denial Is Often a State Project”. Interview With Iva Vukušić – 24 August 2026

Few atrocities have been documented as extensively as the Srebrenica genocide. Yet three decades later, denial remains politically entrenched, while the evidentiary record painstakingly assembled

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Articles

Africa’s Newest Petro-Dynasty, by Enrique Martino – 23 August 2026

From The Republic As Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo prepares to hand power to his son, Teodorín, a gas boom and fears of Chinese expansion are

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Articles

Fuel Shortages and Extractivism in Bolivia, by Claudia López Pardo – 21 August 2026

Bolivia’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating. A shortage of fuel is driving uncertainty, as people are forced to queue at gas stations in

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Articles

The DSA, Fidel Castro, and Cuba, by Dan La Botz – 21 August 2026

A few days ago, the Democratic Socialists of America, of which I am a member, posted a statement, the opening paragraph of which reads: “Today

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Articles

When Tankies Got the Tanks They Asked For, by radical dumpling – 20 August 2026

how the 1968 invasion of czechoslovakia destroyed an autonomous movement If you live outside of the Czech Republic (sorry, I just can’t bring myself to

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Articles

The Irresistible Rise and Fall of Evo Morales, by Pablo Stefanoni – 20 August 2026

Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s election to the presidency of Bolivia in October 2025 ended a long political era. Evo Morales’s Movement for Socialism (MAS) had held

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Statements

The Position of the Group of Belarusian Anarchists in Warsaw and ABC-Belarus on the War in Ukraine – 20 August 2026

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Articles

A Nation That Hunts Its Women: A Night in Chongqing, and the Country It Reveals, by Chu Yang – 19 August 2026

Content warning: this piece describes and links to images and video of organized violence against women and girls, some of them minors. I didn’t sleep

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Podcasts

Carl Schmitt, Part 1 – 18 August 2026

On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about

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Interviews Podcasts

Iran’s Long Fight Over the Hijab. Interview with Mahtab Mahboub – 18 August 2026

The ‘Lines on a Map’ podcast focuses on current developments in the Middle East and every week speaks to a journalist writing for The Amargi.

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Interviews Podcasts

Israel’s Genocidal Government Is Dissolving. Its Legacy Is Here to Stay. Interview with Noa Sattath – 17 August 2026

As Israel prepares for elections on Oct. 27, the past four years demand a reckoning: what has prolonged far-right rule changed in law, policy, and

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Articles

Who Was Here First? The Two Meanings of ‘Indigenous’ in Europe, by Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe – 17 August 2026

Popular culture taught generations to admire resistance to colonialism; nationalism turned ‘firstness’ into claims of exclusive ownership For many Europeans, the word “Indigenous” evokes two

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Articles

The Conditional Nature of Eastern European Whiteness, by radical dumpling – 15 August 2026

no, this isn’t some weird rant about “reverse racism” In February 2022, millions of Ukrainians were forced from their homes almost overnight. Before many had

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Articles

Peru’s So-Called Paradox, by Stephan Gruber – 15 August 2026

From Phenomenal World The election of Keiko Fujimori empowers an extractive growth regime On July 28, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Peru’s former dictator Alberto Fujimori,

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Articles

The Herat Arrests Are a Defining Moment of Taliban Repression in Afghanistan, by Fatima Yousofi – 14 August 2026

Since August 2021, the systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan has unfolded through successive decrees that have banned girls from secondary education and universities,

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Announcements

Seeking Associate Languagers, Truffle Pigs, WordPress Wizards and Tag Technicians, by the LR Blog team – 14 August 2026

We’re looking for more people who’d like to help put out the Left Renewal Blog by: For the site-running side, WordPress familiarity is useful but

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Articles

Sweeping Reshuffle at the Top of the Islamic Republic’s Power Structure, by Zamaneh Media – 13 August 2026

The appointment of veteran IRGC commanders to senior military and security posts has fueled speculation about a broader reconfiguration of power amid an unfinished war.

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Articles

Saudi Arabia Bets Everything on Restraint, by Théophile Simon – 13 August 2026

From New Lines Magazine From the oil terminals of Yanbu to the luxury resorts rising along the Red Sea, a firsthand look at how the

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Statements

Geneva Consensus Declaration Fact Sheet, by GPAHE – 12 August 2026

The Geneva Consensus Declaration is part of a growing international campaign to roll back women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Framed as a defense of women’s health,

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Articles

The Successes and Failures of Zionism: Adin Steinsaltz and Yeshayahu Leibowitz, by Shaul Magid – 12 August 2026

“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD

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Interviews Podcasts

Dalit Studies. Interview with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan – 10 August 2026

The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor

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Articles

Ukraine and the Limits of Anarchist Anti-Militarism, by radical dumpling – 8 August 2026

When ABC Belarus asked to take part in the Anarchist Bookfair in Bremgarten, Switzerland, they weren’t planning to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army or

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Articles

A Border Spectacle, by Nabil Ferdaoussi – 7 August 2026

When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy

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Articles

China: The Antisemitism Tolerated by the Regime, by Andrea Ferrario – 6 August 2026

Neo-Maoist websites copy the far right and spread antisemitic ideas, but the world’s fastest censorship apparatus leaves them untouched. In North Korea, the same theories

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Interviews

Between War, the Right-Wing Opposition, and State-Centered Anti-Imperialism. Interview with Mina Khanlarzadeh – 6 August 2026

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Interviews

“Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine Demonstrates How Dangerous Historical Amnesia Can Be”. Interview with Bernhard H. Bayerlein – 5 August 2026

Why was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed? What was its impact on Ukraine? How is this deal debated in modern-day Germany? Historian Bernhard H. Bayerlein, author

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Articles

How the Manipur Conflict Went From Bad to Worse on the BJP’s Watch, by Patricia Mukhim – 4 August 2026

From Himal Southasian Manipur’s challenge is not its ethnic diversity but the absence of a shared political framework in which Meiteis, Kukis, Nagas and others

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Articles

Earthquakes and Governance: Why We Need a Gender Lens in Venezuela’s Compounding Crises, by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco – 4 August 2026

As one of almost 8 million diaspora Venezuelans, I was shocked about the news of the double earthquakes that hit the country on 24 June:

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Interviews Podcasts

The Logic(s) of Iran’s Nuclear Program. Interview With Sara Kermanian – 4 August 2026

The ‘Lines on a Map’ podcast focuses on current developments in the Middle East and every week speaks to a journalist writing for The Amargi.

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Articles

Ten Lessons from Iran on Anti-Imperialism, by Collectif Roja – 2 August 2026

1. The Struggle Over the Meaning of Anti-Imperialism War not only tears apart bodies, territories, homes, and the conditions of collective life; it also fragments

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