For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable. On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to
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Abstract: Today, the ‘pluriverse’ is considered to be a radical new concept capable of decolonising political thought. However, it is not only decolonial scholarship that
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
An Attempt to Revive an Entity in a Coma for Decades Subtle efforts are underway in the city of Sweida to revive the role of
This post introduces a symposium on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. How did the American state come to
In South Africa’s watershed election last May, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in the country’s
Jilly Boyce Kay is a scholar of Media and Cultural Studies, specialising in feminist theory. This article first appeared in Feminist Media Studies Volume 25,
From Himal Southasian Refugees from the war in Myanmar live in fear of harassment, imprisonment and deportation in the border areas of Northeast India and
What really happened on 7 October 2023? Is this even a question we should be asking after eight months of Israeli bombardment of the claustrophobic
When a site in Finchley, north London, appeared on a list of targets circulating in far-right chat groups calling for actions on 7 August, several
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Qiao Collective’s “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, published in the Monthly Review, is to what extent it focuses on
From King’s College London Amid growing unrest in Venezuela, as critics both domestic and international accuse incumbent president Nicolás Maduro of forging election results to
They didn’t fall out of a coconut tree. From Get Down and Shruti. It’s only been a couple of days since Biden stepped down and
From Hammer & Hope Inspired by a need for more grounded, non-elite analyses of the current situation in Sudan, we interviewed four people whose organizing
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in
Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d’état and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). These military juntas are pursuing
In my previous post, I wanted to indicate why I think the Nunes book is important, useful, and underrated. Now I want to spell out
From +972 Magazine. In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary. At first
The 2024 Lok Sabha Elections produced the façade of sameness as 2019 was almost re-enacted in Kerala. Yet, the present elections should ring the alarm
Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (London: Verso, 2021), 320 pp. Lots of people are reading Rodrigo Nunes’s Neither Horizontal
From The New Arab Last week it was falsely reported across social media that the renowned left-wing intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky had passed away.
The DRC is the subject of renewed interest, linked to the risk of regionalization of the M23 war in the east and to the focus
A proposal to apply the concept of ‘institutional racism’ to antisemitism The Berlin Neutrality Act, which was ruled unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court in
From K. The Magazine “What did y’all think decolonization meant?,” reads the hyper-viral tweet that circulated after October 7. As antisemitic violence erupted in Canada,
From Himal Southasian Mass protests and seething local resentment show that Islamabad continues to control and exploit the nominally autonomous region it calls Azad Kashmir,
Western media outlets’ resort to the cliché of Myanmar as a “forgotten” country is not only self-incriminating—it risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy as the resistance
Ideas of a specific form of ‘Muslim antisemitism’ carry the risk of unjustified blanket suspicion. Both antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism must be taken seriously, regardless
Saul Dubow is a South African historian specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article first appeared in
On the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death, this article revisits his pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his
Britain has recently gained notoriety as a global hotspot for anti-trans politics and ‘gender critical’ feminism. But what is the relationship between British ‘gender critical’
The seduction of speaking as a Jew – and why I will not do it Of the many indignities Jews have been forced to endure
The chorus of authoritarian propaganda against democratic protests should concern us all. When Greta Thunberg, a student activist against climate change, tweeted a “toolkit” comprising
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
As thousands of bodies are blown apart in Gaza and children starve to death in the city’s rubble-strewn streets, numerous groups are exploiting this suffering
This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture increasingly coalesce around self-victimising articulations of
‘Speak Mandarin!’ At a concert in Macau in the autumn of 2023, Cantopop superstar Eason Chan used an interlude to talk about his songwriting process.
From Himal Southasian India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater
This article was first published in The Sociological Review.
From The Contrapuntal Magazine On the first anniversary of the Sudan war, I am confronted with the thorny pains that accompany every act of remembrance.
Most liberal and left academics and intellectuals tend to defend, or at least excuse, the Cuban government. This is to a certain degree understandable with
From Sidecar The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’ orchestrated by globalist
‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza, by Yuval Abraham – 3 April 2024
From +972 Magazine The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human
At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his
The current Israel–Hamas war is one horrific outcome of a century-long Zionist settler colonial project, which continues to violently shape the political geography of Israel/Palestine.
This essay makes two arguments. First, it argues that the analytical frame of settler colonialism is very productive in order to understand, describe, and at
Udi Greenberg is an assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). His scholarship and teaching focuses especially on the history of ideas,
I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, the words: “Our daughter is blue.”
After over a hundred days of bombing in Gaza, tens of thousands of civilians killed and millions fleeing for their lives, residential buildings and mosques
It is Saturday morning in Tel Aviv. 147 days have gone by since the morning of Saturday October 7. Nothing can be said without mentioning
As violent conflict rises across West Africa, the phrase “farmer-herder conflict” has taken hold from the local to international levels. Farmer-herder conflict is an umbrella
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
From Boston Review The picture above of two teenage Zionists was taken in 1906 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, in what was then the Russian empire. On
From +972 Magazine Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual
Why is Russian aggression in Ukraine imperialist? How is it possible to interpret it based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, and how do these interpretations
There’s a new essay being passed around by Megan Wachspress on “The ‘New Antisemitism and the Logic of Whiteness.” As one might imagine,* I have thoughts.
From The Dial The tech mogul’s statements about his country of origin reveal that he never really knew the place. There’s a legend among South
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 The Diplomat Coming nearly three years after the military coup d’état of February 1, 2021, “Operation 1027” marks a defining moment in Myanmar’s revolution.
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
Christine Achinger studied Philosophy, Literature and Physics in Paris and Hamburg. She is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick in the
Marcel Stoetzler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bangor University, UK, and currently Horkheimer Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/M., Germany.
How has the political meaning of resistance come to be devalued? What are the affinities between the artistic critique of capitalism and a fascination with
From +972 Magazine Among the victims of Hamas’ massacres in southern Israel were several Palestinian laborers from the Gaza Strip. Here is one of those
From the London Review of Books On 16 October, Sabrina Tavernise, the host of the New York Times podcast The Daily, spoke to two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
White supremacist movements are rising worldwide, and they come with heightened bigotry against many groups. While full of hatred, white supremacy also thrives on fear
From The Diplomat Myanmar has been ruled by a military junta for most of the years since it emerged independent from British colonial rule in
I don’t believe that ‘death to the Jews’ is a cry against poverty and oppression The word ‘context’ was quickly smuggled into conversations that took
From The London Review of Books Blog On 8 October, the day after Hamas militants from Gaza penetrated Israel in an unprecedented invasion and killed
It is now 1 p.m., Wednesday, October 18, and I am at home, in Tel Aviv. Eleven days have passed since the October 7 attack
Summary: Ahmet İnsel’s article titled “Crimes Against Humanity In Israel and Palestine” discusses Hamas’ attack on Israel on the 7th of October 2023 and the
“My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza”, reads a placard held by a Jewish woman at a protest in Mexico against a previous Israel
Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a
The appalling reaction of some progressives to the massacre of innocents has been decades in the making ‘He who hates himself must be feared, because
From +972 Magazine My stomach has been churning for four days. In recent years I’ve harshly criticized Israel’s policies in Gaza, written extensively about the
From Aeon, by Lachlan McNamee In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China and established a client state called Manchukuo (Manchuria). To secure control over Manchuria, over
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
The killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in Iran a year ago ignited massive protests by Iranians against the Islamic regime. But civil unrest has been
Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C.. Her teaching and research focus on human rights, Middle East
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
How regional and global powers, internal colonialism and Salafi-jihadist subterfuge converged to short-circuit the Syrian struggle against despotism From New Lines Magazine. Syria is a
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
From New Lines Magazine On July 19, South Africa announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be attending the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in
From New Lines Magazine. A day after Narendra Modi first came to power in 2014, the Indian election received a certificate of decolonization from an
A recent exposé in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the
Chenchen Zhang is associate professor in international relations at Durham University, where she is also director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. This article
This paper asks how whether and how caste fits into a global history of racial capitalism? The misidentification of caste as custom has long misled
In May 2023, when Mauricio Garcia killed eight people in an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, it seemed like just another senseless mass murder similar
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery The phrase iki devlet, tek millet — two states, one people has become the ubiquitous way to characterize
Mainstream far-right actors are escalating a nationwide campaign to eliminate the trans community from American society – a dangerous threat to trans people and one
From New Lines Magazine. Western groups find in Muslim communities what they believe is a prototype for a social contract free of wokeism and women’s
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
As with any other country, there are certainly factories with sweatshop conditions in China. But the motorcycle delivery driver and the burned-out office worker are
From The Diplomat Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a three-part series about Myanmar’s escalating political crisis. The first part will offer an
For years, Russia’s ethnic minorities have been subject to an increasingly restrictive one-language policy. At the same time, they are being instrumentalised in the war
Summary Post-slavery is an academic analytical concept that signifies the fragmented legacies and continuities of past slavery and slave trade in contemporary societies after its
On 24 February, the Russian army invaded Ukraine as part of a large-scale military operation aimed at rapidly decapitating Ukrainian power and subjugating the country.
The Chinese model of state-directed capitalism is coming apart — and it’s unleashing a new authoritarianism. In 2008, before his first serious bid for the
Volodymyr Ishchenko has carved out a unique niche as one of the western Left’s go-to voices on all things Ukrainian. His list of articles and