China has stepped up efforts to intimidate Taiwan ahead of elections in November. This has occurred with the usual combination of domestic threats and military
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From Czech neo-Nazi organizer Filip Vávra to fragile identitarian activists and elected politicians, Europe’s far right is building a transnational movement around tired white supremacist
As protests spread across Europe, Albania’s proposed crackdown shows how far a government may go to make political dissent personally costly. This is a story
Serbia’s student-led political movement has secured a historic election victory. Preliminary results suggest the so-called Student List has won 141 of the 250 seats in
Women’s Movements Against Sexual Violence in India. Interview With Urvashi Butalia – 22 October 2026
They took over streets and highways, podiums and pedestals, marching into the night to smash the patriarchy. The anger found its voice in rousing and
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. In October 2022, just before the
A large banner on the May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally, a far-right demonstration called by Tommy Robinson, read “End Zionist occupation of Britain.” The
Three scenarios – all grim – on how the renewed conflict in Tigray could develop. The conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray moved a
Priama Diia, meaning “Direct Action,” is an independent student union in Ukraine and a unique, vital example of grassroots working-class resistance. Refounded in February 2023
The following is an interview with friends from Taiwan who have formed the umbrella coalition Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine (TWAFP). The interview includes
Three years after the terrorist attack by Hamas and its allies, we pay tribute to the victims of this mass crime, which killed more than
The high school mobilisation that began in the Paris suburbs in September 2026 fits into a series of back-to-school mobilisations that secondary education has seen cyclically
A comrade of Xiao Wu, an activist arrested after years of reporting on the situation of Chinese workers, writes a letter to Marx describing how
Roberto Firenze and Sergio Bellavita from the Collettivo Sinistra per l’Ucraina – Laboratorio internazionalista report on the Italian leg of the International Convoy for Ukraine.
Ethnic divisions undermine the prospects of achieving better housing policies for all of us In recent years, rent and property prices have been a constant
To understand the enduring resilience of the U.S. dollar and the reality behind the current wave of de-dollarization rhetoric, the Monitor spoke with Professor Ho-fung
Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely
Thiago Gama: I begin with the question you must be tired of seeing badly formulated. In Fire Alarm, you show that Benjamin inverts Marx’s metaphor.
In this interview conducted by Stéfanie Prezioso for Marx21, Laurence De Cock analyses the ongoing mobilisation of young people in France, its rapid spread and
Socialists against Antisemitism condemns the Green Party’s adoption of its ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution. We are particularly concerned by the rejection of safeguards for Jewish
Housing has become one of the main social and political conflicts in Europe. The problem is no longer limited to the cost of renting, the
On the night of October 1, we learned that our comrade Hayka had been killed during an artillery strike. She was 33 years old. An
Latin American militarism did not disappear when dictatorships ended between the 1970s and the 1990s. In Brazil and Argentina, whose dictatorships ended in 1985 and
When Maricarmen Abascal, a disabled 87 year-old, was evicted from the Madrid home where she had lived for 71 years, hundreds of people gathered outside
By the morning of 27 September, the Puerta del Sol was covered in tents. Thousands of people had marched through Madrid under the slogan “Ni
Sudan’s brutal civil war continues with no end in sight in its fourth year, largely due to the negative role of outside actors. The United
The UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports,
Will the country join Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru in submission to Washington? Brazil goes to the ballot boxes for the first
Queues for sold-out Singapore screenings of “Dear You”, a mostly Teochew-language mainland Chinese film, reveal attachments to ethnic Chinese dialects that decades of state policy
On the anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile, José Antonio Kast’s administration performed indifference, but the streets told a starkly different story.
A few days ago, Sudan’s political and military authorities came together and presented a proposal for what they call a “Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue,” aimed at reaching
In September 2026 the Workers’ Party of Britain publicly disavowed the left and published a post describing Jews and their organisations as an enemy within
Putinism is not an invention of the arms industry. European militarisation is not simply a neutral response to Russia. Any materialist account worth having has
Maksym Kazakov: Hello, John! You are a very well-known historian in Ukraine, and every work or article you publish sparks lively discussion. People have very
From the airplane window, the land appeared almost uniformly yellow, stretched flat and uninterrupted beneath the wing. It was not the yellow of sunlight, but
Two Uprisings and Their Internal Connection Iran Draft: In an interview marking the first anniversary of the Jina movement, or the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement,
Last week, thousands of Serbs turned out for the funeral of Ratko Mladić. Mladić commanded the forces of Republika Srpska, the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic,
The Malaysia National Organising Committee of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum is deeply alarmed by the growing regression of the rights, safety, dignity,
In Jharkhand, bureaucratic exclusion is often sustained by a pervasive attitude of indifference towards Adivasis. These biases make the SIR [Special Intensive Revision, the Election
“A serious internationalism…must oppose imperial domination without excusing local tyranny. It must learn to confront multiple forms of power at once.”“Any attempt to understand Iran’s
Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants
A cat pulled from the rubble after a twelve-hour rescue operation, a dog and its owner trapped together under concrete slabs after a Russian missile
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. Russian imperialism is a subject that
In Nigeria’s Ibeju-Lekki area, dispossession driven by the Chinese-funded Lekki Free Zone (LFZ) and the larger Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) produces gendered outcomes. Drawing
Can Koçak is the Britain representative of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi), a socialist party with three sitting MPs. A fourth, Can
Russian Empire, Social Dynamics and Where Marxism Goes From Here, by Simon Pirani – 7 September 2026
What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine? Has it changed our understanding of the way that imperialism works? Tell us we
More than 15,000 teenagers answered a call from Nima Tekido, an entertainment producer and YouTube personality, to attend an event at Iran Mall in Tehran
Postmortem sperm retrieval has become state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a
We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand
On 20 August 2026 the Guardian published an open letter to political prisoners in Iran under the title “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two
For the last quarter century, discussion of militarization in Mexico has centered around the missions assigned to the armed forces by the president. Over time,
Vimba! We, the People was formed in response to growing anti-rights and anti-democratic efforts to advance fundamentalist, far-right, and reductive values and legislation in South
Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah (1774-1844) and Khatijah Sidek (1918-1982) exercised political authority across a Malay world divided by colonialism. Their lives show how such figures
The Serbian general and war criminal Ratko Mladić, the butcher of Srebrenica and too many other places to mention, died last week. It’s an opportunity
As Russia escalates its attacks, Ukraine’s resistance holds, and peace negotiations are at an impasse, the people of Ukraine need international solidarity from anti-war people
I was frustrated before I had even finished reading Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s warm publicized response letter to Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Partly because the message itself
The international left keeps asking Iranians which force is permitted to hurt them first. A solidarity that requires that answer is worth very little. I
We are living through another great crisis in the Himalaya. On August 26, a mass of rock and ice collapsed high above the Nepal-Tibet border
Within the space of a few minutes on August 26, the border crossing between Nepal and China – Rasuwagadhi on the Nepali side and Gyirong
While the Chinese Communist Party has long implemented a colonial-paternalist mode of governance over Tibetans and Uyghurs, there is a curious phenomenon of a notable
The U.S.-Israeli Wars on Iran Achieved the Opposite of Their Intended Goal More than a year has passed since the 12-day war of June 2025,
A Hong Kong Marxist’s critique of China’s 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” On July 1, 2026, the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into
How has the situation with labor rights in healthcare changed since February 2022? Why is the state closing hospitals and cutting medical staff as the
In a typical course of action, Vijay Prashad has hit out at a letter by a number of prominent left intellectuals in The Guardian criticizing
The following is the introduction to Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev’s new book Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February
To the authors and signatories of the open letter in support of prisoners’ resistance against executions in Iran, and to the awakened consciences of the
The US ratified a binding human rights treaty in 1992. Post-Dobbs abortion bans violate it. There’s no international court that will say so — but
We firmly stand with the overall spirit and thrust of the “Open Letter To Iran’s Political Prisoners, trapped between the two blades of a scissors”
On June 24, 2025, the day after Israel bombed Evin Prison, the Iranian labor activist and former political prisoner Keyvan Mohtadi wrote about the people
Few atrocities have been documented as extensively as the Srebrenica genocide. Yet three decades later, denial remains politically entrenched, while the evidentiary record painstakingly assembled
Bolivia’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating. A shortage of fuel is driving uncertainty, as people are forced to queue at gas stations in
A few days ago, the Democratic Socialists of America, of which I am a member, posted a statement, the opening paragraph of which reads: “Today
how the 1968 invasion of czechoslovakia destroyed an autonomous movement If you live outside of the Czech Republic (sorry, I just can’t bring myself to
Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s election to the presidency of Bolivia in October 2025 ended a long political era. Evo Morales’s Movement for Socialism (MAS) had held
We might call the last ten years since 2016 the “populist decade,” not so much because it was actually dominated by the real phenomenon of
Content warning: this piece describes and links to images and video of organized violence against women and girls, some of them minors. I didn’t sleep
Popular culture taught generations to admire resistance to colonialism; nationalism turned ‘firstness’ into claims of exclusive ownership For many Europeans, the word “Indigenous” evokes two
Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Sabrina Fernandes puts the case for ecosocialism, notes some of its important contributions to
no, this isn’t some weird rant about “reverse racism” In February 2022, millions of Ukrainians were forced from their homes almost overnight. Before many had
Since August 2021, the systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan has unfolded through successive decrees that have banned girls from secondary education and universities,
The appointment of veteran IRGC commanders to senior military and security posts has fueled speculation about a broader reconfiguration of power amid an unfinished war.
The Geneva Consensus Declaration is part of a growing international campaign to roll back women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Framed as a defense of women’s health,
“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD
When ABC Belarus asked to take part in the Anarchist Bookfair in Bremgarten, Switzerland, they weren’t planning to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army or
When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy
Neo-Maoist websites copy the far right and spread antisemitic ideas, but the world’s fastest censorship apparatus leaves them untouched. In North Korea, the same theories
Why was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed? What was its impact on Ukraine? How is this deal debated in modern-day Germany? Historian Bernhard H. Bayerlein, author
As one of almost 8 million diaspora Venezuelans, I was shocked about the news of the double earthquakes that hit the country on 24 June:
1. The Struggle Over the Meaning of Anti-Imperialism War not only tears apart bodies, territories, homes, and the conditions of collective life; it also fragments
Much of the work on the origins of whiteness that has been produced in the last few decades has focused on the British empire and
The launch of Jentayu (named after a mythical bird in Malay epic tradition) is good news for the Malaysian left. A bilingual Malay- and English-language
If you solely look at policy, it’s pretty easy to see why the Soviet Union is often described at being at the vanguard of feminism.
Behind Tunisia’s panicked headlines about falling birth rates is the darker demand that reproduction itself be policed in the name of racial purity. Over the
Malaysia defies easy characterisations at every turn. [1] Its economy is mixed, with strong property rights and a relatively open economy on one hand, and
Among the eight billionaires who were taken off the Russian Forbes list in 2026, only four were removed because their businesses became less valuable. Three
Chenchen Zhang, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), 272 pp. At a time when right-wing populism appears
how parts of the left continue to perpetuate soviet tokenization In July 1930, a Black toolmaker from Detroit stepped off a ship in Leningrad, believing
Interview by Antonín Hořčica, conducted in English on 1 September 2023 at the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb. AH: How are you finding the
A concerningly large portion of the left have taken on the habit of telling themselves a fairytale about Russia. It goes something like this: somewhere