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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
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
From Phenomenal World Corporate concentration and the far right in South America Early this year, in the Brazilian Amazon, a coalition of fourteen indigenous groups
Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga on Uganda’s costly vote, shutdowns and Museveni’s 50 years rule. From Chartist. With 24 hours left to the presidential polling day in Uganda,
Danny and Derek welcome to the show writer Paul Heideman to talk about the transformation of the Republican Party from the main party of business
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
00:00:00 Introduction of the speakers 00:02:38 Introduction to today’s webinar 00:04:20 Germany, racism, colonialism 00:09:27 Extermination and extraction 00:12:04 German-Russian inter-imperiality 00:16:20 The “German-ness Contract”
In this episode of Democracy for Sale, Peter Geoghegan is joined by Professor Kim Lane Scheppele to unpick the high-stakes election in Hungary. With Orbán
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,
In anticipation of a conservative winning the 2024 presidential election, the well-funded far-right movement openly outlined its vision for an “ideal” America in its Project
From Liberal Currents Toby Buckle’s “It Wasn’t Fascism All Along” is exactly the kind of argument worth engaging directly. It is a serious argument that
Ho-fung Hung, The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 336 pp. “The contempt and naive idealization of China
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,
From the London Review of Books The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, met in February with Raúl Castro’s grandson at a Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
From Mail & Guardian, South Africa Any effort to rebuild the left must begin with firm principles. Opposition to xenophobia cannot be deferred; it must
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:35 Oksana Dutchak introduces herself and her research 00:07:22 Core concepts of feminist social reproduction theory 00:29:39 Q&A: hierarchies of care
From Africa is a Country Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation? Trump’s posting of racist
From Feminism in India The Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on 25th March 2026. The bill was earlier passed by
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies
From New Lines Magazine Observers from the MAGA base to the Iranian regime itself have converged on the idea that this is not the foreign
From Rest of World Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech’s AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital
From The Hill A dangerous chain reaction is underway and it may only be beginning. In the wake of U.S. and Israeli military strikes on
For more than a year, Nexus has been tracking the connection between the “manosphere” and antisemitism. A new Netflix documentary, Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere,
From New Lines Magazine Iran helped the Assad regime crush unarmed protests with staggering violence starting 2011. Now, it has turned those same tactics on
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
From Conviction The draft African charter on family sovereignty and values is presented as cultural protection, but critics warn it functions as a coordinated anti
On this episode of In Theory, Durba Mitra returns to the podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, The Future That
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:46 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Bill’s political biography 00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement 00:15:53 Race and class in the
If Fordism built the 20th-century welfare state, Muskism is designed to undo it. It’s a political economy where freedom means self-reliance through Musk’s technology –
From Fatteh Advocates say the proposed law has created an ‘atmosphere of terror’ among the local LGBTQ+ community and warn that, if passed, it would
The phrase “conservative revolution” made its first appearance in a 1927 speech delivered by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After World War II, it
This week on Reign of Error, host Sarah Posner speaks with Texas Monthly senior writer Robert Downen about how long-standing anti-Muslim activism has moved from
From Equator Watching Turkish TV this past week has been a strange experience. Since 28 February, pro- and anti-Erdoğan channels have largely suspended their political
From Equator Before the bombs fell, I had started an archive of debates taking place inside Iran in the aftermath of the January protests and
Sarah Posner sits down with New York Magazine senior writer Sarah Jones to unpack the accelerating assault on transgender rights in Kansas and beyond. They
From Sidecar On 1 February, Laura Fernández of the ruling Partido Pueblo Soberano won the national elections in Costa Rica by a landslide. With 48
From Boston Review Alex Shams: You have written extensively on sociopolitical transformations in the Middle East in recent decades, including the Arab Spring revolutions that
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
Last October, the war in Sudan took a new turn with the capture of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces. The city in western
From Global Project Against Hate and Extremism As Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah B. Rogers is leading a Trump administration grantmaking strategy
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,
From +972 Magazine Saudi accusations that Abu Dhabi acts as Israel’s proxy have ignited a media firestorm. But similar anti-Israel sentiments circulate within the UAE
From Organizing My Thoughts, the official newsletter of writer and organizer Kelly Hayes. Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization
From Equator The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants Among the weirder features of the contemporary
From The Battleground What would the left be without Noam Chomsky? After the extent of his personal and financial connections to Jeffrey Epstein became apparent,
From Global Project Against Hate and Extremism White supremacist leaders from France, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States gathered on
The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.
This week on Reign of Error, host Sarah Posner examines the Department of Homeland Security’s use of neo-Nazi and white nationalist imagery in ICE recruitment
As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, resistance to Russian occupation has undergone a radical transformation. The public displays of defiance that defined the war’s early days
On 12 February 2026, Bangladesh holds its first election since the July Revolution in 2024 that overthrew the authoritarian government of Sheikh Hasina and the
From JTA Only about one-third of American Jews are Zionists, according to a recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America — the
From Himal Southasian With women comprising only four percent of candidates in 2026 general election, Bangladesh’s post-Hasina transition is reproducing the patriarchy it promised to
From New Lines Magazine In 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadist organizations (such
How do we move from mobilization to actually winning this fight for our future? In the season finale, Sally and Jess reflect on the moment
From New Lines Magazine A culture war playbook honed by American conservatives is finding new life in East Asia On Feb. 8, Japan will head
From Socialists Against Antisemitism A Green Party [of England and Wales] conference motion, described as declaring “Zionism is racism” and rejecting both IHRA and JDA,
From OffBeat Research Much of the world’s attention on the Middle East has been focused on the man-made famine in Gaza, the collapse of the
In a new episode of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) podcast, SRHM convenes leading experts and advocates to unpack the implications of three newly
From New Lines Magazine The three-story industrial building in Seoul’s hipster neighborhood of Seongsu was packed with hundreds of women, their chatter and laughter echoing
A New Age of Protest in Iran. Interview with Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian – 28 January 2026
The protests that began in Iran last month have been suppressed with a level of state violence not seen since the 1980s, when the Islamic
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,
From Making Sense… What we are seeing in Minneapolis right now is horrendous, frightening, and heartbreaking. But it is not a surprise. Over the past
From +972 Magazine Despite the spectacular collapse of Netanyahu’s ‘conflict management’ doctrine, both he and his staunchest critics are campaigning on its revival. With both
From Chartist Magazine The so-called 28-point plan (drafted in part by the Russian regime and presented by the US) cannot serve as the basis for a just
Russia appears unwilling to compromise in Ukraine – a problem ignored by those calling for an end to support for Kyiv From analyse&kritik For my
From Himal Southasian In October 2024, two months after the monsoon revolution in Bangladesh toppled Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and Awami League government, four
From +972 Magazine From Jerusalem to Haifa, bus drivers and ticket inspectors are facing an unprecedented surge in attacks — be it from ultra-Orthodox youth
From Maiseh Review 2026 began with several shocking moments of violence, including the devastating killing of legal observer Renee Goode in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which led
From +972 Magazine By projecting power into the Horn of Africa, Israel aims to increase pressure on rivals, undermine regional stability, and narrow the space
From Himal Southasian Ground reporting of the 2025-26 election reveals that voters only hope for a slight lifting of the military’s boot in a race
Venezuela has revealed more clearly how Trump understands power and global order. That view centers on power, leverage, and unilateral action. It also involves a
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
From Red Mole The message arrived in a left WhatsApp group on January 6th, 2026. A member asked if anyone had “a source for what’s
In this special episode of Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100, Harsh Mander speaks to Felix Pal, a lecturer on political science and international relations
From New Lines Magazine Long forced to suppress its culture and history, the minority group is embracing its traumatic past while maintaining its allegiance to
From +972 Magazine Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and
Host Adam Lucente interviews a number of Al-Monitor journalists on the US removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as they dive into how the action
From The New Republic Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration. The first year of Donald Trump’s second term
00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The
From n+1 Magazine […] The basic provocation of Wages for Housework is that capitalism relies on the invisible and uncompensated labor of women, and that
Trying to make sense of the Tankie phenomenon. – Mohammed Elnaiem Read on Substack
From French Pastoral Philippe Marlière argues that, as Macronism fades, France’s Bonapartist right is moving towards an alliance with the National Rally in which it
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
When does anti-Zionism cross into antisemitism? How do we talk about antisemitism in progressive spaces at a moment when antisemitism is both rising globally and
From New Lines Magazine This year’s edition of Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference, held last weekend in Phoenix, was, first and foremost, a tribute
From +972 Magazine The Jewish-Arab movement is celebrating its 10th anniversary after a period of rapid expansion. But as it grows, so do questions about
At the UN’s annual Western Sahara debate, everyone gets heard except the Sahrawis themselves. From Africa is a Country Every year in October, sweater weather
What does it mean to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel in 2025? As Israel gears up for elections in the coming year, Sally and
From The Caravan Exposing the largest far-right network in history “The Sangh does not control, neither directly nor remotely,” Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the
From Notes from the World The Democratic Socialists of America Travel to Cuba and Happily Meet With the Island’s Jailers On 25 November – 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
From Lausan On 26th November 2025, around 2:50pm, a fire broke out in one of the 31-story buildings in Wang Fuk Court, a 42-year-old Home
From +972 Magazine The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are
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
From Literatur.Review The 14th of November this year marked the 50th anniversary of the illegal Madrid Accords, by which Spain transferred administrative control of its
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
00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:58 Recap of the main themes of Jacob’s article Violence and the Left 00:23:15 Q&A intro 00:24:03 How did settler colonialism become an