At first glance, the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro might look like an obvious disaster for Vladimir Putin. Russia has lost a key partner, and the prospect
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A laboratory for a Left of resistance and solidarity against status-quo pacifism. The collective Sinistra per l’Ucraina (“Left for Ukraine”) was formed in Italy in
Welcome to our Israel/Palestine Podcast – a project by graduating high school students from Berlin-Neukölln. Home to Germany’s largest Palestinian diaspora and a second home to
How can we shift the focus from discussing state gender policy to seeking alternatives? Why does this matter now, in the third year of the
Investigative journalist Yuval Abraham takes us inside his reporting on the systems driving Israel’s mass killing in Gaza over the past two years. He discusses
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history? Historians Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková discuss.
In 2019, more than a million people poured onto the streets of Hong Kong, with many returning week after week. The song ‘Glory to Hong
In this episode of The Horn, Alan speaks with Julia Steers, investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, about the large-scale atrocities that took place in Darfur’s
Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family
China is breaking the rules of development. Typically, as countries progress up the value chain, they transition from agriculture to light industry, then to heavy
In this episode of Yurt Jurt, Aidai Aidarova speaks with Terrell J. Starr, journalist, podcaster, and political commentator. Aidai and Terrell discuss how conversations about colonialism
For over two years, the world has watched Israel carry out daily atrocities in Gaza and wondered: how did Israeli society allow this to happen?
Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between
How do Palestinians conceive of liberation and hope today, after decades of disillusion, and beyond the narrow language of statehood? In this bleak moment, what
Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book ‘The Making
In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen sits down with Asem Zhapisheva, journalist, activist, and a founding member of the civic movement Oyan,
Escalated by police violence, a protest movement in Nepal snowballed into a spontaneous insurrection, culminating on September 9, 2025 with the toppling of the government.
In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with the burning of the
From Jaffna Monitor Kaniyan Pungundran: I see your life as a story of human resilience — or perhaps more broadly, the resilience of Sri Lankan
“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive
All eyes have been on Nepal since last week when a large but loosely organised protest by young people in Kathmandu turned into a revolution
In late August, demonstrations against housing allowances for national parliamentarians escalated dramatically when a motorcycle delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan, caught up in the protests, was
Interview with Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris for
Anastasia Berg: The essay you published with us, “Violence and the Left,” takes a critical stance against a tendency on the left vis-à-vis violence. What
In this episode, Matt is joined by journalist Talia Lavin to discuss her book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America, one
Eiad Husham is a Sudanese journalist whose investigative reports and insightful analyses have appeared in numerous outlets, including Sudans Post, Ayin, Al Jazeera, The New
A major topic following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that’s scrambled
On 15 August 2025, the Taliban marked four years since retaking control of Afghanistan – a period defined by deepening authoritarianism, economic collapse, and international
Taiwan is a flashpoint for US-China rivalry, so radicals internationally need to be able to see through the misleading views about Taiwan spread by both
How Thailand and China solved their nation-building dilemma Henry Rory O’Connor: Who is the Chinese population of Thailand? What does the rest of the country’s
Historian Quinn Slobodian (author of Crack-Up Capitalism, Hayek’s Bastards, and the forthcoming Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed) walks Moira and Adrian through the fate
Amandla!: Ibrahim Traoré came to power in a coup in 2022. What was the situation in the country that led to the coup? Rahmane Idrissa:
For some in the West, being a journalist in China—especially one at a state media organisation—is seen as little more than parroting party propaganda. This
An interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde from the forthcoming issue of Historical Expertise. Interviewer: Yurii Latysh. Historical Expertise [HE]: Your book Fascism in the Middle
In his new book, Rojo fuego. Reflexiones comunistas frente a la crisis ecológica (Fiery red: Communist reflections on the ecological crisis), Argentine Marxist Esteban Mercatante
Historian David Roediger discusses some of the people who’ve influenced him,white workers and Black struggles in the U.S., and some aspects of anti-racisttheory and politics
What does the work of late Marx tell us about anti-colonial and indigenous struggles’ role in overcoming capitalism? What are the revolutionary trajectories of our
Episode Description What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine,
Manfred Elfstrom is a political scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research focuses on labour protests in China, the state’s authoritarian
On 25 June this year, India marks 50 years since former prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India. This was the third time that
What can we learn from a decade of protest in Asia? Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, and Taiwan—all are linked by their shared appreciation of milk
Ivan Bakalov is a researcher and expert on Russia’s political economy. He argues that Russian capitalism hit its limits after the economic crisis of 2008-2009.
Il Manifesto: What do you think of the migrant detention centres built by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni government in Albania? Lea Ypi: I think it is
From Journal Farsi, affiliated with the Worker-Communist Party of Iran, of which Hamid Takvaee is the leader. We are publishing this translation as part of a
In 2020, an unlikely coalition of activists formed online. It brought together protest movements in Hong Kong and Thailand and, before long, fanned out across
Owen Flood (Solidarity): What is the Black Flag Action Group? How did it come into being? How do you relate to other anti-war groups in
From ANF Melis Tantan says that Turkey’s energy strategy is based on colonialism and that energy has become a tool of domination for many states.
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an, or Standing Together, is a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel that organises against racism and occupation, and for equality and social justice.
On 28 March, in downtown Jakarta, across from the Sarinah department store, an unlikely group of protesters gathered holding signs and making speeches. The crowd
PSAN: After October 7, 2023, Palestine became a divisive issue within Burma’s revolutionary circles. In this context, how does your organization respond to these layers
Quinn Slobodian on how libertarian thought has evolved into the ideological backbone of nationalists and authoritarians around the world. Quinn Slobodian is no stranger to
Verónica Gago is a feminist academic. What this means is that she does not separate her activism as a feminist from her work as an
Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009) between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant and political organization fighting for
This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics & Gender (2025). *** For readers less familiar with
Saima Desai interviews David Camfield about his new book, Red Flags. Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises underwritten by capitalism by exploring the
In her last book, Melinda Cooper envisions the several decades of neoliberal hegemony as a successful counterrevolution. The Australian sociologist recounts that, by the mid-1970s,
Century International: On Thursday, March 6, Syria’s new rulers began a military crackdown on what they described as a nascent insurgency by supporters of the
By Pauline Ongaji What you need to know: Up to 40 per cent of hospital deaths in Kenya are linked to non-communicable diseases. More than half
From New Politics Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes are the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of
When Donald Trump won the presidential election for the first time, the initial shock, among liberals and progressives, soon gave way to two kinds of
Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a
Marta Bellingreri in discussion with Rahaf Aldoughli, author of Romancing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Ideology, and Identity In your book, you wrote about the
Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,
From Ojalá Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and participated in the country’s 1979 Revolution. She has a
There are a lot of similarities between the 2016 and 2024 elections, but the media ecosystem we have today is fundamentally different from the ecosystem
‘Not nice boys’: how the Black Panthers shook up Israeli society, by Keith Kahn-Harris – Autumn 2024
From Jewish Renaissance, via Keith Kahn-Harris Asaf Elia-Shalev’s recent book reveals the startling impact of the Black Panther movement on Israel after the Six-Day War.
From Tempest Increasingly, understanding the inter-imperialist competition between the United States and China is becoming essential to understanding the dynamics of the modern capitalist system.
Sarah Cameron is an American historian at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include the history of crimes against humanity, environmental issues, and the
00:02:00 How did you get interested in the subject of “settler colonialism”? 00:05:50 Do you have an “Australian perspective”? 00:08:40 How would you summarise the
By Edo Konrad From +972 Magazine Israel’s long-subservient media has spent the past year imbuing the public with a sense of righteousness over the Gaza
Ela Kwiecińska is a Polish historian who used to teach at the University of Warsaw. She was fired because of her critical attitude towards Polish
By Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Over the past century, the term imperialism has been used to define
Paul Martial – When discussing Africa, the notion of ethnicity is frequently mentioned, both in general media and among social science researchers. How would you
For the vast majority of Ukrainians, Syria before 2011 was probably just another Arab country, but after the war began, it came to symbolize the
Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael grew up in central Tigray. He received his Bachelor’s in Ethiopia before spending several years between Ethiopia and Norway, where he continued
Daniel Randall, one of the three principal co-authors of the Left Renewal text, spoke to Philippe Mesnard, from the editorial board of the journal Mémoires
Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler
Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished
Interview by Erik Peter for the German daily “Die Tageszeitung” (“taz“). The May 1st demonstration in Berlin was characterized by pro-Palestine slogans. Peter Ullrich talks
In his public speeches, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev often refers to Armenia’s sovereign territories as “Western Azerbaijan.” After Azerbaijan’s victory in the 2020 war in
In this episode, School of International Service professor Shadi Mokhtari joins Big World to discuss the history of protests in Iran, the unprecedented international reaction
Sally Abed, Yael Berda, Eli Cook and Joshua Leifer in Dissent Winter 2024 After more than two months of intensive bombardment, Israel’s war in Gaza
Ethiopia is one of the world’s most populous countries, and yet the 2020-22 Tigray War and ongoing suffering in the region has been largely ignored
JURIST: Professor Kanjwal, to the readers of JURIST who might be unaware, can you give a brief history of the territory of Kashmir, including how
Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social
In her research, Shadi Mokhtari lays out three Middle Eastern experiences of human rights – as mockery of morality, manifesting morality, and moral maze. Human
On November 30, the Russian Supreme Court outlawed an organization that doesn’t exist: the so-called “international LGBT movement.” The ruling came in response to a
Often considered the ur-text of trans-exclusionary feminism, Janice Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire” came out in 1979, but rehearses a bunch of tropes you could just
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s pugnacious president, is now the country’s longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. This book
What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act
From +972 Magazine The Israeli right’s embrace of Viktor Orbán typifies its convergence with a global far right espousing what scholar Jelena Subotić calls ‘pro-Israel
Uri Weltmann is the national field organiser for Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an (Standing Together), and a member of its national leadership. Standing Together is a Jewish-Arab
Andrew Liu talks to Thomas Jones about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about
A dozen years after the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war, traditional homelands of the minority Tamil population are still under military occupation, thousands
Since coming to power, former US President Donald Trump has attracted and maintained a remarkable following among the Chinese diaspora in and outside the United