China has stepped up efforts to intimidate Taiwan ahead of elections in November. This has occurred with the usual combination of domestic threats and military
Month: October 2026
From Czech neo-Nazi organizer Filip Vávra to fragile identitarian activists and elected politicians, Europe’s far right is building a transnational movement around tired white supremacist
“Torture and suffering take many forms. The stories in this book will help you understand that.” – Michael Kovrig Safeguard Defenders is pleased to announce
From New Lines Magazine The would-be democrats of Serbia’s Student List find themselves in a complex situation: Their aspirations to remake the country’s political order
The ‘In Bed with the Right’ podcast, hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan, examines right-wing ideas about sex and gender. On October 25, 2026 Luiz
From SUMAÚMA Bills ending remote embargoes on deforested areas and allowing the Agriculture Ministry to interfere in environmental oversight are headed toward passage, in a
From +972 Magazine The Joint List and Ra’am could prove decisive in Israel’s election. But they offer very different answers on how far to bend
The victory of the Student List in Serbia’s parliamentary elections on October 25, 2026, brings to an end fourteen years of dominance by Aleksandar Vučić
Serbia’s student-led political movement has secured a historic election victory. Preliminary results suggest the so-called Student List has won 141 of the 250 seats in
Growing up in 1990s China, Yangyang Cheng encountered two contradictory narratives about what it meant to be a worker. In older periodicals and occasionally in
As protests spread across Europe, Albania’s proposed crackdown shows how far a government may go to make political dissent personally costly. This is a story
More information about this series of discussions here. Introduction DM: All right, I’ll try to give a very brief intro. My understanding of these four
Kavita Krishnan is a writer, activist and feminist who has been involved in India’s Left politics, feminist movements and democratic-rights movements for several decades. In
Women’s Movements Against Sexual Violence in India. Interview With Urvashi Butalia – 22 October 2026
They took over streets and highways, podiums and pedestals, marching into the night to smash the patriarchy. The anger found its voice in rousing and
From Kulna Why can’t Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest military spenders, stop the Houthis? The answer isn’t just weapons. It’s the bargain the
From Noema What comes after the dissolution of the liberal world order. Sudan has often served as a mirror for judging the health of the liberal
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has forged a global reputation as a leader of the left. He’s also fighting for his political life after a
From Himal Southasian Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
From New Lines Magazine As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. In October 2022, just before the
Three scenarios – all grim – on how the renewed conflict in Tigray could develop. The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray moved a
A large banner on the May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally, a far-right demonstration called by Tommy Robinson, read “End Zionist occupation of Britain.” The
Priama Diia, meaning “Direct Action,” is an independent student union in Ukraine and a unique, vital example of grassroots working-class resistance. Refounded in February 2023
Accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, British lawyer and writer Philippe Sands moves from his family’s silence about the Holocaust to Nuremberg,
Barricades, tens of thousands of police and paramilitary personnel as well as right-wing goons were deployed to stop the protests against vote rigging. What does
The following is an interview with friends from Taiwan who have formed the umbrella coalition Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine (TWAFP). The interview includes
When protests begin attracting large numbers of people who are willing to risk police beatings, it is usually a sign of anti-incumbency setting in. In
A comrade of Xiao Wu, an activist arrested after years of reporting on the situation of Chinese workers, writes a letter to Marx describing how
From Elad Nehorai’s Newsletter Today marks the anniversary of the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust and the worst mass killing of Israeli
Three years after the terrorist attack by Hamas and its allies, we pay tribute to the victims of this mass crime, which killed more than
The high school mobilisation that began in the Paris suburbs in September 2026 fits into a series of back-to-school mobilisations that secondary education has seen cyclically
Roberto Firenze and Sergio Bellavita from the Collettivo Sinistra per l’Ucraina – Laboratorio internazionalista report on the Italian leg of the International Convoy for Ukraine.
Ethnic divisions undermine the prospects of achieving better housing policies for all of us In recent years, rent and property prices have been a constant
To understand the enduring resilience of the U.S. dollar and the reality behind the current wave of de-dollarization rhetoric, the Monitor spoke with Professor Ho-fung
Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely
From New Lines Magazine Wars do not alter the balance of power only when cities fall; it also shifts when geography acquires new value. This
From New Lines Magazine Riyadh’s latest victories in Yemen relied on UAE-backed forces that want their own state, raising questions about who will ultimately benefit
From Himal Southasian Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold
In this interview conducted by Stéfanie Prezioso for Marx21, Laurence De Cock analyses the ongoing mobilisation of young people in France, its rapid spread and
Thiago Gama: I begin with the question you must be tired of seeing badly formulated. In Fire Alarm, you show that Benjamin inverts Marx’s metaphor.
Socialists against Antisemitism condemns the Green Party’s adoption of its ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution. We are particularly concerned by the rejection of safeguards for Jewish
Housing has become one of the main social and political conflicts in Europe. The problem is no longer limited to the cost of renting, the
On the night of October 1, we learned that our comrade Hayka had been killed during an artillery strike. She was 33 years old. An
Latin American militarism did not disappear when dictatorships ended between the 1970s and the 1990s. In Brazil and Argentina, whose dictatorships ended in 1985 and
When Maricarmen Abascal, a disabled 87 year-old, was evicted from the Madrid home where she had lived for 71 years, hundreds of people gathered outside
By the morning of 27 September, the Puerta del Sol was covered in tents. Thousands of people had marched through Madrid under the slogan “Ni
Beijing calls the Uyghur region a “national energy and resource strategic security base.” On September 14, ministers and senior officials gathered behind closed doors in