Racists in the United States and Chinese nationalists share common ground. Roughly a year ago, an American social media influencer traveled from the United States
Author: Ben Gidley
This statement was published with over 1,200 signatures of academics based in Israel. For the online version of the letter in Hebrew, Arabic, and English
One of my political heuristics is that New Zealand politics is five years behind the United States. If that’s true, then the broad Left has
From ANF Melis Tantan says that Turkey’s energy strategy is based on colonialism and that energy has become a tool of domination for many states.
The radical degree and rapid pace of institutional changes initiated by Donald Trump’s second administration has taken many observers by surprise. In Europe, by contrast,
The move reflects a broader strategic vision embracing gender liberation, pluralism, and local democracy The formal announcement of the PKK’s dissolution has sparked mixed reactions among Turkey’s Kurds and international
Second English language issue of the Al Amal Newsletter. Contents: Statement of the Anarchist Group of Sudan From our deep understanding of social revolution as
Some 16,000 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities were returning home this weekend after attending the capital on International Workers’ Day… The Indigenous collective, known as
A recent violent and destructive march calling for the expulsion of Haitians in Punta Cana demonstrates the vehement anti-Haitianism and rising fascism prevalent in the
While government crackdown on far-right groups that did not align with the Kremlin following the annexation of Crimea resulted in several waves of fragmentation, the
The Indonesian government passed proposed revisions to the Armed Forces Law (UU TNI) on 20 March 2025. The revisions to the law have caused outcry
From La Croix International Political scientist Haoues Seniguer explores how Muslim voices are increasingly silenced by suspicion, as public discourse blurs the line between religious
From The Diplomat The Indonesian leader claims to support democracy, but only in terms of a stifling notion of national “unity.” Waves of mass protests
On March 8, Marisela followed the instructions she was given. She dressed in pink and traveled from Miranda state to downtown Caracas to attend the
After a fraudulent election in Belarus, protestors flooded the streets of Minsk, reclaiming spaces and symbols the authoritarian government had long controlled. From Places Journal
This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics & Gender (2025). For readers less familiar with
From Al-Jazeera Trump’s return to power exposed an underbelly of anti-Indian racism in the MAGA-verse. Hindi nationalists who support him are working hard to conceal
From Ill Will Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological tensions that
From New Politics Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes are the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
From The Dial Kevin Lee’s father used to grunt in affirmation if someone asked if Lee was a girl. He did the same if someone
Marta Bellingreri in discussion with Rahaf Aldoughli, author of Romancing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Ideology, and Identity In your book, you wrote about the
Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost’s 2024 book Dirtbag. From Libcom This is a book about a millennial socialist’s ridiculous
From The Battleground Far-right demagogue Donald Trump wasn’t just re-elected. The Republican Party took control of the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, there was
‘Not nice boys’: how the Black Panthers shook up Israeli society, by Keith Kahn-Harris – Autumn 2024
From Jewish Renaissance, via Keith Kahn-Harris Asaf Elia-Shalev’s recent book reveals the startling impact of the Black Panther movement on Israel after the Six-Day War.
While everyone offers answers to the causes of the far-right’s victories, they will win and continue to win. To avoid the future that this trend
From Tempest Increasingly, understanding the inter-imperialist competition between the United States and China is becoming essential to understanding the dynamics of the modern capitalist system.
I What’s wrong with this picture? We beg forgiveness for beginning this review with a block quote from a Wikipedia article: The horseshoe theory asserts that advocates
From the Second Cold War Observatory Perhaps more than any other material, lithium has, in recent years, been increasingly presented as the silver bullet for
Sally Abed, Yael Berda, Eli Cook and Joshua Leifer in Dissent Winter 2024 After more than two months of intensive bombardment, Israel’s war in Gaza
In January 1918, two months after Soviet power was established in Petrograd, one of the Red Guard units tasked with securing that power on the
Marina Brown of VMN in conversation with Daniel Mang and Ben Gidley Download
From Tempest, by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom Sean Larson has written a long response to our short article in which we criticized author Jonah ben Avraham for his
This chapter is based on a short argument between two Marxian academics, Andreas Malm and Anselm Jappe, which broke out on a leftist Zoom panel,
From Tempest, by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom In the midst of Israel’s horrific slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, it would seem ill-timed to
Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist
From the Jewish diaspora to the Palestinians, R. Binyamin’s ideas show how alternatives to mainstream Zionism were imagined even in its earliest days. I spend
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and
Ethiopia has a population of 126mn and is the second most populous state in Africa, behind Nigeria. The urban population is less than a quarter
In a development that echoes the Chinese state’s repressive methods against the Uyghur people, the Israeli military is monitoring Palestinians in the occupied territories with
The Ukraine Solidarity Network believes that the victims of aggression have every right to defend themselves and should receive the support of those who support
The imperial strategy of territorial expansion and colonization of resources advanced by the Putin regime will accelerate the decline of Russia because behind its facade
“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s
By Ilya Budraitskis, Oksana Dutchak, Harald Etzbach, Bernd Gehrke, Eva Gelinsky, Renate Hürtgen, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, Natalia Lomonosova, Hanna Perekhoda, Denys Pilash, Zakhar Popovych, Philipp
From Shado-Mag How many Leftists are failing those caught in the crossfire of oppressive regimes I recently moderated a conversation called “Our wounds can be bridges: the
The invasion of Ukraine has been a shock not just to Eastern Europe, but to the post World War II international order. While the fundamental
David Harvey’s February 25 FocaalBlog post is presented as “An Interim Report” on “Recent Events in the Ukraine”. Harvey’s essay effectively covers some of the core forces
When Marjorie Taylor Greene found herself approvingly quoting Nation of Islam conspiracy theories and noting the “common ground” between the GOP and the NoI, many laughed.
[The following Open Letter was a collaborative effort of a group of Syrian writers and intellectuals and others who stand in solidarity with them. It
Open Letter to Editors of Jacobin and Monthly Review New Politics editor’s note: Last month, grassroots Indigenous and youth-led movements helped the ecosocialist Indigenous candidate Yaku
New preface to Aufheben’s 2016 article “The rise of conspiracy theories: Reification of defeat as the basis of explanation“, published by Libcom in late 2020.
What the Halle Shooting Tells Us About the European Far Right Today, by Ben Gidley – 24 October 2019
We recorded the sixth episode of the Talking Europe vlog series in October 2019. A week before, during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, a gunman, heavily armed
A look at recent attempts by religious fundamentalist reactionaries and conspiracy theorists to build coalitions with “gender critical” feminists. From Libcom Over the last few
From New Politics A CNN report last November about slave auctions in present-day Libya shocked the world.1 The existence of these slave auctions was widely treated
In an essay on “Left strategy after Charlottesville”, Max Elbaum makes “an argument for the left to interact with the post-Charlottesville surge of resistance by
A central insistence of antiracist thought over the past several decades is that, as with any social category produced by regimes of power, you don’t choose race, power chooses it for you; it names you. This is why all the well-meaning identification in the world does not make a White person Black. Likewise, as much as I draw inspiration from the Jewish community, and as much as I adore my Jewish partner and friends, it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around. I developed an analysis of antisemitism because I wanted to smash White supremacy; because I wanted to be free. If we acknowledge that White nationalism clearly and forcefully names Jews as non-white, and did so in the very fiber of its emergence as a post-civil rights right-wing revolutionary movement, then we are forced to recognize our own ignorance about the country we thought we lived in. It is time to have that conversation.
The Muselmann In Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith describes watching a film of a boat full of refugees being bombed by a helicopter “somewhere in the Mediterranean”.
If you had told a socialist or a radical of a few decades ago that Marxist socialists would not only be defending the Union Jack-emblazoned