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,
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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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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:
A delegation of Alliance for Workers’ Liberty members visited Lviv and Kyiv in late May. This followed on from earlier delegations in 2022 and 2023,
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
Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. Empire
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
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
How do socialists reconcile their opposition to military expenditure (especially increased military expenditure) with support for Ukraine being provided with the weapons it needs to
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
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
From Positions: Politics Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question
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 Equator Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were
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
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
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
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
Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the Christian nationalist youth organization now run by Erika Kirk, has announced the speakers for its 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit, TPUSA’s
On the long road that turned a rapper into Nepal’s prime minister. On March 27, Balendra “Balen” Shah, a 35-year-old rapper, structural engineer, and former
Since January 2026, inflation, recession, war, and internet disruptions have unprecedentedly pressured the women’s labour market in Iran—a market that was already earlier affected by
A community healthcare programme cannot be immune to the injustices of a casteist society. Amid lack of institutional support and refusal to make it a
Excerpt from an article published in Haaretz on 15 May 2026 The vast majority of responses to Nicholas Kristof’s column about sexual abuse of Palestinian
In “Lenin Versus Democracy,” Dan La Botz replies to criticisms of his article “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism,” first published in LINKS International Journal of
Even as formal recognition of gender equality has progressed over the 24 years since Timor-Leste’s independence, the legacy of the resistance against Indonesian occupation still
From the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Despite extensive misogynist content in the two shooters’ manifestos, discussion of the intersection of male supremacism with
AI, Energy, and Settler Colonialism in Inner Mongolia Bill Bishop’s reporting this morning on Li Qiang and Ding Xuexiang’s recent comments on AI and computing
By early May, Putin’s regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, and a visibly faltering state response to crises
From Himal Southasian The Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral victory in West Bengal exposes the deep Bengali roots of Hindu nationalism and shatters the myth
Few peoples in the Middle East have been portrayed as a threat as often as the Kurds. For some, they are separatists. For others, terrorists,
Toward the Divine State From the beginning, anarchists suspected that Iran’s revolution might end not in freedom, but in clerical rule. Today, with the benefit
Domestic worker activism is on the rise in Kenya – and across the continent. Liam Taylor is a freelance journalist. This article originally appeared appeared
From Merion West Under President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s longstanding reputation for relative stability is over, writes teacher Tony Njoroge. Journalists are being arrested, opposition
A recent letter published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the
The entire left spectrum is unprepared for the challenge of defending democratic and social achievements in Europe against external and internal threats from authoritarian states
From Tempest Somayeh Rostampour argues that opponents of U.S.and Israeli aggression in Iran must move beyond campism—or we will not succeed in rebuilding a genuinely emancipatory
On the occasion of May 8th, Franziska Davies spoke to Vasyl Korotkyi about the changes in German memory culture with regard to Ukraine and the
This text is written from a position of anarchist critique and offers a view of the existing left parties and movements of the Russian Federation
The military’s record — having seized power by presenting themselves as the people’s protectors against the former repressive regime — is hardly impressive. In late
As women’s presence in state-sponsored nighttime rallies in Iran has increased during the war and even after the ceasefire, this presence has become not only
In the past week, the Islamic Republic executed at least 11 prisoners whose cases had been reported by human rights organizations and state media: Peyman
From +972 Magazine A garbage truck’s tailgate opens slowly. Inside, around 70 Palestinian men are packed tightly together, their eyes struggling to adjust to the
Readus Jawad and Oliur Sun, central committee members of the newly formed left political platform Network for People’s Action (NPA), in conversation with Jamhoor about
A 2021 Ministry of Education directive – the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan – mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and
An international petition against the US-Israeli war on Iran, titled “A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity” and signed by 175 “personalities” from 30 countries,
A specter is haunting Peru. It isn’t the same one that terrorized the elites in the 20th century, or that of revolutions that promised to
Drawing on a range of regional expertise and perspectives from international relations, political economy, political theory, and sociology, this collective discussion makes the following contributions
Walaa Alqaisiyas paper in Middle East Critique, “Moving Beyond Imperialist Frameworks: The False Equivalence Between Palestine and Xinjiang”, proves a masterclass in a failure of
Though he has been dead for more than 100 years, Vladimir Lenin continues to stand at the centre of debates about modern Marxism for his
A critical reflection on Phuntsok Wangyal and the rise and fall of the Tibetan Communist Party This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa
Opposition to US wars unites circles that claim to be opposed to one another. A tribune published in Counterpunch proposes six resolutions regarding the United
‘AS a popular political movement, Zulu nationalism is dead.’ [1] This was written twenty years ago in a survey of the first ten years of
Eight weeks into Trump’s war with Iran, the origins of the Islamic Republic are worth revisiting. The regime now confronting Washington was born in the
From the LPE Blog It has often been noted that Elon Musk and Henry Ford have much in common. Both were hailed as technological geniuses
The Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions Among the many concepts coined by the Cold War, campism remains
From 26 to 29 March, around 4,000 people gathered in Porto Alegre for a major international conference against the global rise of fascism and against
From Futures of Difference Sociologist Cecilia Menjívar shows that violence against women is not a matter of individual acts but a product of converging structural
Hungarians have defeated a national autocrat and challenged a broader illiberal international alliance Hungarian voters have swept their far-right strongman Viktor Orbán out of office,
Kurdistan is often reduced to a militarized myth, erasing society, class, and everyday life. This essay argues for restoring social reality at the center, showing
More organised and more dependent on tech and outside support, the war in Sudan is deadlier than ever for civilians. Kiri Rupiah is the Communities