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From New Lines Magazine The would-be democrats of Serbia’s Student List find themselves in a complex situation: Their aspirations to remake the country’s political order
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Kavita Krishnan is a writer, activist and feminist who has been involved in India’s Left politics, feminist movements and democratic-rights movements for several decades. In
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has forged a global reputation as a leader of the left. He’s also fighting for his political life after a
From Himal Southasian Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
From New Lines Magazine As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets
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From Elad Nehorai’s Newsletter Today marks the anniversary of the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust and the worst mass killing of Israeli
From New Lines Magazine Wars do not alter the balance of power only when cities fall; it also shifts when geography acquires new value. This
From New Lines Magazine Riyadh’s latest victories in Yemen relied on UAE-backed forces that want their own state, raising questions about who will ultimately benefit
From Himal Southasian Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold
From New Lines Magazine A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one
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
From French Pastoral Philippe Marlière argues that Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s position on Ukraine, which condemns the Russian invasion while taking up arguments that justify it, is
From +972 Magazine A settler-led wing of the army is driving Palestinian displacement on the state’s behalf. But as Yagil Levy explains, this devil’s bargain
On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about
The Seven-Day Lightning Offensive That Changed Yemen’s War, by Mohammed Al-Qadhi – 21 September 2026
From New Lines Magazine How the Houthis seized the country’s western coastline and reached for Bab al-Mandab There are moments in Yemen’s long war when
Paraguay often doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of South America, but that’s been changing in recent years — especially for members of the
Leading Turkish LGBTQ activist Yildiz Tar explains why Turkey’s authoritarian government is escalating repression of their community. The crackdown has less to do with public
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
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
Zionism, as a cultural and political movement of Hebrew revival, sought to forge a connection between the modern Jewish people and a deep past located
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the International Trade Union Confederation, Building and Wood Workers’ International, the Education International, the International Federation of Journalists and
From Daraj Khawla Bou Kareem examines how women who oppose Kais Saied in Tunisia face not only prison, prosecution and exile, but also a second,
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 Himal Southasian The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog is a reminder of the gap between
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.
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From Kalam Weekly It is 5 am on August 26 — just before dawn. My friends and I load our rucksacks into the trunk of
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
From Bond & Grace In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in jail after his arrest for peacefully protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
From The Brooklyn Rail Since May 2026, I and thousands of other protesters in Tirana have taken to the streets. What began as a protest
This is a recording of a New Jewish Narrative webinar from August 26, 2026, the first part in our Israeli Election Webinar Series. Most of
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,
Noam Chomsky’s defense of Jeffrey Epstein echoes his campist foreign policy positions – both are a betrayal of the left From Strange Matters Following the
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
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. With commentary on the emergence of a
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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
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On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about
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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,
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
From Equator How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war It is hard to think of another contemporary conflict that has been
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From Equator How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war In the summer of 2024, sitting in the shade of an enormous mango tree
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
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From Foreign Policy In Focus Will the proposed changes persuade the Trump administration to alter its current policy towards Cuba? On June 18, Manuel Marrero
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
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
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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.
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
From The Debrief with Debra Shushan An official date of October 27 has been set for Israel’s crucial parliamentary election. While the current governing coalition
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
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. Luke de Noronha is joined by Chenchen
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From Minority Africa From a 17th-century Angolan queen to a Ghanaian musician in exile, this June, we’re revisiting some of the lives that shaped and
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
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In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Eszter Kismődi and Neil Datta, Executive Director and founder of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive
Transcript of episode 76 of the weekly El Faro English podcast, Central America in Minutes. In Nicaragua, the U.S. sanctions more than 100 officials after the
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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
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
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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
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
For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are “Arabs”, “enemies”, and a
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
From Dissent Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy theory, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is
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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
From the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Anti-feminist conspiracism grew with the successes of feminist movement and threats to cisgender men’s entrenched dominance and
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From The Dugout In this episode, Sudanese anarchist organizer Fawaz joins Dr. Mohamed Abdou for a wide-ranging conversation on the war in Sudan, authoritarianism, colonialism,
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
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
Reform UK has just swept councils across England and made significant gains in devolved elections. How did a party of the radical right get here
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
From Equator Gavin Jacobson: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? Rahmane Idrissa: The violence itself isn’t unprecedented by the standards of
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The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor