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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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.
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
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
Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Sabrina Fernandes puts the case for ecosocialism, notes some of its important contributions to
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,
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
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,
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
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
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.
First, I would like to thank the international revolutionary community for their consistent support of the Ukrainian resistance. It is not a self-evident position: a
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,
“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD
From Equator How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war It is hard to think of another contemporary conflict that has been
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
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
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
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
From Equator How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war In the summer of 2024, sitting in the shade of an enormous mango tree
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
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.
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:
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
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
From Foreign Policy In Focus Will the proposed changes persuade the Trump administration to alter its current policy towards Cuba? On June 18, Manuel Marrero
From Himal Southasian As right-wing Islamist extremist groups gain in Bangladesh, feminists are fighting for women’s rights and gender equality amid disappointment with the Bangladesh
Much of the work on the origins of whiteness that has been produced in the last few decades has focused on the British empire and
From Himal Southasian India’s Gen Z and the Cockroach Janta Party have transformed outrage over exam paper leaks into a nationwide protest movement challenging Narendra
From +972 Magazine Core disputes over how to utilize political power may not be resolved in time to form a new Joint List — and
The launch of Jentayu (named after a mythical bird in Malay epic tradition) is good news for the Malaysian left. A bilingual Malay- and English-language
From New Lines Magazine If the scenes emerging from Delhi reveal anything, it is that fear has begun to loosen its grip on a significant
If you solely look at policy, it’s pretty easy to see why the Soviet Union is often described at being at the vanguard of feminism.
Behind Tunisia’s panicked headlines about falling birth rates is the darker demand that reproduction itself be policed in the name of racial purity. Over the
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,
From New Lines Magazine In late February 2022, a fistfight broke out in Kibbutz Lotan, a small eco-community in southern Israel. Dima, an immigrant from
From Liberal Currents Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (New York: Random House, 2026), 416 pp.
Malaysia defies easy characterisations at every turn. [1] Its economy is mixed, with strong property rights and a relatively open economy on one hand, and
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. At a time when right-wing populism appears
Among the eight billionaires who were taken off the Russian Forbes list in 2026, only four were removed because their businesses became less valuable. Three
From The Debrief with Debra Shushan An official date of October 27 has been set for Israel’s crucial parliamentary election. While the current governing coalition
From Himal Southasian Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while
how parts of the left continue to perpetuate soviet tokenization In July 1930, a Black toolmaker from Detroit stepped off a ship in Leningrad, believing
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. Luke de Noronha is joined by Chenchen
Interview by Antonín Hořčica, conducted in English on 1 September 2023 at the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb. AH: How are you finding the
A concerningly large portion of the left have taken on the habit of telling themselves a fairytale about Russia. It goes something like this: somewhere
World-System Theory was built to make a particular political error impossible: the error of mistaking rivalry between powers and blocs within global capitalism for a
Alexander Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova are not names you usually see mentioned in general anti-war statements from leftist groups in the west. They were 19
For years, the Kremlin has cast itself as the patron of a besieged Global South and a defender of Palestinian statehood against Western-backed Israeli power.
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,
On June 29, thousands of people gathered at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar — the capital’s designated site for public demonstration — in the second week
Keiko Fujimori’s presidency will put Peru’s fragile democracy to the test The inauguration of right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori, as
The following article is part of a series of reports in The New Humanitarian exploring the influence of the US Christian nationalist movement on both
The war in Iran has reshaped the political landscape that emerged from the 2022 uprising: it has strengthened the Islamic Republic, given new momentum to
The proposals of June 2026 represent the most ambitious attempt at economic reform since the 1990s. One hundred and seventy-six transformations and twenty-three thematic axes
The memorandum of understanding signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States is a complex event with multiple dimensions. A close reading
From Minority Africa From a 17th-century Angolan queen to a Ghanaian musician in exile, this June, we’re revisiting some of the lives that shaped and
From Liberties Journal For many of Palestine’s supporters in the world, Hamas is a “resistance movement.” It is the armed faction that fires rockets at
After a long vote count, Keiko Fujimori won the presidency, on her fourth attempt, by a margin of around 45,000 votes. The dictator’s daughter —
From Himal Southasian A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in
These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are
On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office,
Can Armenia’s recent elections really be reduced to a contest between a pro-Western Pashinyan and a pro-Russian opposition? To what extent was the outcome driven
Despite renewed efforts to criminalize and erase queerness, LGBTQ Africans continue to challenge the myth that their lives and identities are somehow un-African. As an
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,
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
A recognizable habit has metastasized across some segments of Western academic discourse and most of the terminally online Marxist-Leninist political culture: rather than examining conflicts
We gather today in London at a moment when Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate cities, workplaces and communities. Every day brings new
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Eszter Kismődi and Neil Datta, Executive Director and founder of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive
Dependency theory in international political economy [1] Over the past few years, there has been some commendable intellectual energy devoted to revitalising dependency theory for
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse Note: This article was originally written and
Drawing on Sudan’s colonial history, the conversation will explore patterns of colonial rule across Africa, Asia, and South America and the long shadows they cast
From MAJIC – Memories, Arts and Social Justice in Central Asia In 2024, Kyrgyzstan adopted amendments to its “child protection law,” restricting the dissemination of
From Public Books Durba Mitra, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026), 352 pp. Durba
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
On June 1, Ethiopia held parliamentary elections. Results should come out this week, and Reuters along with many other outlets is predicting a “landslide win”
Thailand’s military uses its huge Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which enrols 100,000 high school students every year, to instil conservative nationalism and loyalty to
Afrophobia in South Africa is often presented as a problem of ‘foreigners versus locals’, as though it emerges naturally from cultural hostility or competition between
This issue of the CASJE Research Digest focuses on the term “Zionism”—a concept that has become increasingly prominent in public discourse across media, politics, and
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:01:42 Speaker intro 00:03:36 Democratic backsliding and/in India 00:24:16 Q&A I (political democracy, substantive democracy) 00:30:09 Populist religious nationalism, ethnic democracy and fascist tendencies 01:05:14 Q&A II (Hindu identity, Hindutva, caste, fascism, populism) 01:37:00 Caste, class, the Left and democracy in India
It’s hard to ignore the selective fixation on the Ukrainian far right and ‘Ukrainian nazis’. To be clear, I’m not interested in making excuses for
On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in
After a month of protests and roadblocks in Bolivia, the situation is contradictory and difficult, but there is also an opening that creates the possibility
Judith Scheele, Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (London: Profile, 2026), 374 pp. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in
The claim that romanticizing the Soviet Union has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin, modern-day Russia, or the war in Ukraine has become a knee-jerk
In December 2022, Sharon Slater, president of an Arizona-based conservative Christian organisation called Family Watch International, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the International Islamic Fiqh
On the Laziness of Parroting “No War but Class War” There’s nothing radical about flexing theory on people who are being bombed and there’s something
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
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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SC ASHAs from rural Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh reveal how dominant caste networks obstruct the appointment of ASHA workers from marginalised
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
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
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,
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
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
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