From New Lines Magazine The question is unavoidable, but it masks the diversity among the country’s Sunni Muslim majority and the complex ways that religion
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Many see the fight for women’s rights as part of larger political struggles, against broader state failures, and for the rights of all marginalised groups.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Three scenarios – all grim – on how the renewed conflict in Tigray could develop. The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray moved a
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
From New Lines Magazine A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one
The UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports,
Sudan’s brutal civil war continues with no end in sight in its fourth year, largely due to the negative role of outside actors. The United
From Searchlight Magazine Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN), is facing allegations that he made a series of antisemitic statements in private
From Africans in China When I first put together a list of SinoAfrica documentaries in 2016, the field was still relatively small. There were already
Will the country join Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru in submission to Washington? Brazil goes to the ballot boxes for the first
Queues for sold-out Singapore screenings of “Dear You”, a mostly Teochew-language mainland Chinese film, reveal attachments to ethnic Chinese dialects that decades of state policy
From +972 Magazine A settler-led wing of the army is driving Palestinian displacement on the state’s behalf. But as Yagil Levy explains, this devil’s bargain
On the anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile, José Antonio Kast’s administration performed indifference, but the streets told a starkly different story.
A few days ago, Sudan’s political and military authorities came together and presented a proposal for what they call a “Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue,” aimed at reaching
In September 2026 the Workers’ Party of Britain publicly disavowed the left and published a post describing Jews and their organisations as an enemy within
This article revisits the debate on the relationship between capitalism and abolition from the perspective of South Asia. It argues that bringing the antislavery debate
Putinism is not an invention of the arms industry. European militarisation is not simply a neutral response to Russia. Any materialist account worth having has
The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War, by Mohammed Al-Qadhi – 21 September 2026
From New Lines Magazine How the Houthis seized the country’s western coastline and reached for Bab al-Mandab There are moments in Yemen’s long war when
On 13 September, Sweden held national, regional and local elections. A centre-left red-green alliance led by the Social Democrats and their leader, Magdalena Andersson, won
From the airplane window, the land appeared almost uniformly yellow, stretched flat and uninterrupted beneath the wing. It was not the yellow of sunlight, but
Last week, thousands of Serbs turned out for the funeral of Ratko Mladić. Mladić commanded the forces of Republika Srpska, the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic,
From Liberties The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15, 2026, one chapter in a long series that has spanned decades. This
In Jharkhand, bureaucratic exclusion is often sustained by a pervasive attitude of indifference towards Adivasis. These biases make the SIR [Special Intensive Revision, the Election
From Sana’a Center Perspectives and Analysis Fighting in western Taiz and southern Hudaydah rapidly escalated last week, resulting in the collapse of government lines and
Bills aimed at criminalising sex work [1] keep coming, one after another. The logic is always the same: under the guise of protection, they criminalise.
“A serious internationalism…must oppose imperial domination without excusing local tyranny. It must learn to confront multiple forms of power at once.”“Any attempt to understand Iran’s
A cat pulled from the rubble after a twelve-hour rescue operation, a dog and its owner trapped together under concrete slabs after a Russian missile
Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants
From Daraj Khawla Bou Kareem examines how women who oppose Kais Saied in Tunisia face not only prison, prosecution and exile, but also a second,
From The Forge Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders. I’ll present stories and analysis of
From Himal Southasian The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog is a reminder of the gap between
From +972 Magazine Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.
In Nigeria’s Ibeju-Lekki area, dispossession driven by the Chinese-funded Lekki Free Zone (LFZ) and the larger Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) produces gendered outcomes. Drawing
Russian Empire, Social Dynamics and Where Marxism Goes From Here, by Simon Pirani – 7 September 2026
What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine? Has it changed our understanding of the way that imperialism works? Tell us we
More than 15,000 teenagers answered a call from Nima Tekido, an entertainment producer and YouTube personality, to attend an event at Iran Mall in Tehran
On 20 August 2026 the Guardian published an open letter to political prisoners in Iran under the title “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two
Postmortem sperm retrieval has become state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a
For the last quarter century, discussion of militarization in Mexico has centered around the missions assigned to the armed forces by the president. Over time,
From Kalam Weekly It is 5 am on August 26 — just before dawn. My friends and I load our rucksacks into the trunk of
Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah (1774-1844) and Khatijah Sidek (1918-1982) exercised political authority across a Malay world divided by colonialism. Their lives show how such figures
The Serbian general and war criminal Ratko Mladić, the butcher of Srebrenica and too many other places to mention, died last week. It’s an opportunity
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
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
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
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
From Bond & Grace In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in jail after his arrest for peacefully protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Within the space of a few minutes on August 26, the border crossing between Nepal and China – Rasuwagadhi on the Nepali side and Gyirong
From The Brooklyn Rail Since May 2026, I and thousands of other protesters in Tirana have taken to the streets. What began as a protest
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
The U.S.-Israeli Wars on Iran Achieved the Opposite of Their Intended Goal More than a year has passed since the 12-day war of June 2025,
A Hong Kong Marxist’s critique of China’s 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” On July 1, 2026, the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into
How has the situation with labor rights in healthcare changed since February 2022? Why is the state closing hospitals and cutting medical staff as 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,
Noam Chomsky’s defense of Jeffrey Epstein echoes his campist foreign policy positions – both are a betrayal of the left From Strange Matters Following the
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
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
The US ratified a binding human rights treaty in 1992. Post-Dobbs abortion bans violate it. There’s no international court that will say so — but
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
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
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
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
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
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
We might call the last ten years since 2016 the “populist decade,” not so much because it was actually dominated by the real phenomenon of
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
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
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
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
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,