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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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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 +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.
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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.
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
“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD
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
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
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 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.
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,
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
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
From Arab Reform Initiative Nothing seems to protect any woman from being targeted, not even their “revolutionary status”. Among those attacked are pioneering revolutionary figures
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 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
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
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 —
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 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
Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established
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
We can support resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing NATO Intro: I put this argument at a Green Left Zoom discussion on 23 June about
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
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe Bashkir artist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in Eastern Poland
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
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
From MAJIC – Memories, Arts and Social Justice in Central Asia In 2024, Kyrgyzstan adopted amendments to its “child protection law,” restricting the dissemination of