In a context of ongoing political turmoil, Bolivians found a way to upset an electoral chessboard that seemed set in stone, sacrosanct. In just under
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About a decade ago, I was invited to a small private gathering of Jewish studies scholars to talk about the future of Zionism. One of
In the Sahel, art and cultural entrepreneurship are tools of resilience and social transformation The Sahel, an African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on
Slogans calling for the abolition of war no longer belong to the realm of politics. A serious discussion must start from the reality of threats
A special issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas. This special issue of the NACLA Report critically examines the rise of green capitalism in the Americas
Given the seemingly endless string of AfD successes across Germany – particularly in the East – there is a very real possibility of the neo-fascist
From Lux Magazine, issue 14 “END FOSSIL FUEL NOW!” The sharp cry broke through the monotony of the COP28 plenary session in Dubai in late
For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism. In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by
Ecuador is caught between an onslaught of austerity policies and armed violence that increasingly impedes collective action. We are experiencing multiple wars that appear isolated,
From shado Spaces of free expression are becoming all the more precious as the country veers closer towards illiberalism There is a phrase that has
Most Israelis want the war to end. Several hundred thousand people took to the streets in Tel Aviv last night to demand a hostage deal
The war in Sudan is often flattened with numbers, shorthand and labels that suggest it’s both too much and too petty to resolve. Even the
Since the fall of the former Syrian regime a few months ago, Syria has been engulfed in a wave of “identity-based massacres” that have unfolded
Counterrevolution, Gold, and Global Impunity Sudan today is not only a battlefield between two militarized factions. It is a graveyard of regional and international hypocrisy
Chile’s transfeminist movement faces an uncertain future after a decade of achievements, breakthroughs, and creative political strategies. We are living in a time that demands
On 6 March, a unit of the Syrian state police conducted a ‘combing operation’ in a village near the coastal city of Jableh. They were
It is a mistake to think that Benjamin Netanyahu is solely responsible for Israel’s genocide or that removing him would bring it to an end.
Through the paradigmatic case of post-revolutionary Iran, this article argues critiques of power-laden human rights politics epitomised by Makau Mutua’s 2001 ‘Savages, Victims, and Saviors
From The Point Is now really the right time to talk about the left’s political violence problem? Graduate students are being disappeared off the streets
Preface by Chuang 闯 Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in
From Political Quarterly Blog […] On a deeper conceptual level, the complex history of “race” and racialisation shows that apparent skin colour is just one
In September 2019, 1,500 people assembled in London against the onslaught of anti-trans opinion and hate cults. On July 26, 2025, that number rose above
From New Lines Magazine Emboldened by an ultraconservative state agenda and the war in Ukraine, radical nationalists are cautiously welcomed by the government In a
In the global reckoning with slavery, Ethiopia occupies an ambiguous space. Often romanticized as the lone African polity to successfully resist European colonization and celebrated
From +972 Magazine After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now
From Foreign Policy In a carefully choreographed ceremony on July 11 in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 30 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbolically burned their weapons. This
Uri Weltmann, Standing Together’s national field organiser, writes to supporters with an update on the movement’s latest activity. In the last few days, news about
From Himal Southasian After Pakistan’s military “win” in the May 2025 confrontation with India, the army under Asim Munir as field marshal has even greater
From +972 Magazine In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from
In what ways do women’s bodies become both targets and instruments of war? How is this connected to the patriarchal logic underlying warfare? And how
From Atar: Sudan in Perspective The Haftar-Hemedti nexus rests on a shared ideology that scorns centralised state authority in favour of personal loyalty networks and
Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the conservative ruling Liberal Democratic
This intervention offers a series of preliminary analytical arguments on the current Latin American political conjuncture. It argues that the period of progressive hegemony that
This interview is based on Mohamed Salhi‘s article Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces. It was conducted
Funding both sides of a civil war and demonising refugees? Truly, China is a great power. “Our side is like heaven. Over there… I won’t
From New Lines Magazine Sweida, in southern Syria, a province once spared the worst of the country’s civil war, has become one of its most
From New Lines Magazine What began as intercommunal clashes in Sweida has mutated into a major security operation and Israeli intervention For months, Sweida in
From Himal Southasian Nearly a million Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran in 2025 – many after brutal detention and abuse – to face
From New Lines Magazine They serve in the army, pay their taxes and obey the laws of the land, but have never been granted equality
Calling myself transfeminist is not just a political stance, it is a way of positioning myself in the world, a way of living in it.
The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing repression and criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan state. The April arrest of
From The Elephant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of the most prominent writers and philosophers in Africa and globally, passed away on 28 May 2025. Ngũgĩ’s
Clearly, the death toll in Gaza has exceeded 100,000. The vast majority of the victims are civilians of all ages. The 2.3 million inhabitants have
The following is a reply to Vashti editor Eli Machover’s ‘The choice is one between anti-racism and Zionism as such’. You can read Professor David
From Premium Times The documentary amplifies the nationwide dialogue about gender imbalance in Nigeria’s politics In a significant step towards amplifying the voices of women
Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide
In mid-June, a highly choreographed show of bonhomie was organised at the Mereb Bridge in Tigray, which connects Ethiopia’s northernmost region to Eritrea. Waving Eritrean and
In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new
How has women’s activism in Russia changed since February 24, 2022? Why have women-led, grassroots initiatives become one of the few resilient forms of resistance?
In Myanmar — where over four years of fighting since the 2021 coup has killed at least 80,000 people — aerial warfare has been crucial
From Africa is a Country Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees
I have been blogging on and off, at various websites, since 2006, and much of that time I’ve tried to follow one region or another
From +972 Magazine “Can we say this is the greatest victory in the history of the State of Israel?” This is what a host on
From +972 Magazine Abu Dhabi seeks to present itself to the West as a stable alternative to an increasingly rogue Israel, where defense cooperation and
As Kenya marks the first anniversary of the uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played
1) When I set out to write this report, even the title gave me pause. „Fleeing“—it wasn’t a word I wanted to use. But it’s
From Prospect Often, my first reaction to news coming out of Israel and Palestine is a narcissistic one—making it all about me. When I hear
Presentation in Apertus squat of Agrinion, Greece, 21 of June 2025. Presentation in English, translation to Greek. Scroll to the end for video. Ελληνική περίληψη
Reports from the past week on workers’ struggles and other protest movements. Produced and edited by: Hayat Almasi and Evin Rezaei, Workers Communist Party of
Myanmar has been embroiled in a complex civil war since the military coup in February 2021. This has exacerbated long-standing ethnic conflicts, including those involving
From +972 Magazine After striking Tehran, the army closed hundreds of gates to seal Palestinians inside towns and strand them on roads — proof of
The official inflation rate in Bolivia—which is a “modest” 18.5 percent year-over-year—increasingly resembles the contrived script of a grotesque political soap opera. The number is
A friend shared a social media post to me: Liberalism is not anti-fascist as it is coupled with an economic system (capitalism) that leads to
The political left is (potentially) a force to counter right-wing politics, resist nationalist tendencies, and help coordinate social movements that fight against capitalism. But recently,
Nearly a year after the eruption of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests across Iran in September 2022, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a renowned theologian, former politician and
It’s hard to write about something like this. Events are moving very quickly, and it’s difficult for us mere mortals to stay on top of
From +972 Magazine A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and
Benjamin Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left will be published by Verso in July. Balthaser is
From +972 Magazine Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This plan has begun to stall, but that only portends
From Books&Ideas A rumour is circulating in some African countries: the French state is organising penis thefts to offset declining fertility. The rumour, spread by
From The New Arab Building a free and just Syria after five decades of totalitarian rule, in a region rife with instability and foreign meddling,
Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks. They have demanded water, electricity, a better standard of living, the payment
This is part of a series from Selim Koru’s Substack which breaks down phrases in Turkish popular political discourse. This installment focuses on some examples
From New Bloom Today we bring you photos from yesterday’s commemoration of the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Liberty Plaza from contributor
From K. The Magazine Since the attack on October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza, the word “genocide” has become a touchstone in public debate.
The protests that swept through China between May and early June 2025 highlight deep tensions and dynamics of growing instability in the country’s social fabric
From Africa Is a Country The global economic balance of power is shifting, and Africa finds itself at a crossroads. The traditional dominance of the
From China Digital Times This Wednesday, June 4 marks the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Hongkongers had for decades commemorated the date with
What is new about the authoritarianism that we are currently witnessing? It is useful to situate this authoritarianism within, and to see it as an
Trump’s trade war is back—bigger, louder, and somehow even dumber. Some say it’s different this time. But like most sequels, the plot is familiar. The
Recall that Ukraine disarmed in 1994 in exchange for security assurances by Russia, the US, and the UK, assurances that ultimately weren’t kept. By reportedly
From New Lines Magazine. Reactions from both the left and the right to the shooting of the diplomatic staffers in Washington reveal a troubling ideological
Usually, strikes in Armenia’s furthest mining towns are repressed before journalists can make it there from the capital city, Yerevan. The recent wildcat strike of
From Himal Southasian The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation while altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as
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
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration Hegemonic decline, according to the historian Fernand Braudel, has historically come with financialization. Amid declining profitability in
Though often declared dead, the discourse around ‘Asian values’ has had many lives. Authoritarian regimes have deployed culturalist arguments against liberal democracy since the 1990s,
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
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
In his recent analysis of sexuality in North Korea, proposed on his Youtube channel in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/?lankov?official), Andrei Lankov, a leading expert on Korea, offers
Accepting Russia’s occupation of Crimea would not only be a historical injustice, it would also threaten Europe’s future. Today, Crimean Tatars around the world are
The region’s close political and economic links to Beijing loom large in explanations of why it remains in the democratic doldrums. But overemphasis on the
The academic author and political analyst Spencer Sunshine has uncovered disturbing evidence that links musicians Boyd Rice and Nikolas Schreck, writer Michael Moynihan and publisher
From +972 Magazine Genocidal rhetoric is not new to Israeli politics. But Gaza’s destruction mirrors the apocalyptic language pouring out of the Knesset — where
The Indonesia of Prabowo Subianto navigates international pressures and national ambitions, balancing Chinese control over nickel, tensions in the South China Sea and the return
In an unprecedented move, India recently suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, citing cross-border terrorism. This was one of a series of escalations
I now know that Africa has been in search for a progressive hero since the passage of the great ones – Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nasser, Nyerere,
Today, Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing support the Kremlin’s war effort while it poses as anti-imperialist — but Iran, China, and Korea were once the prey
From The New Republic Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers,