World-System Theory was built to make a particular political error impossible: the error of mistaking rivalry between powers and blocs within global capitalism for a
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Alexander Snezhkov and Lyubov Lizunova are not names you usually see mentioned in general anti-war statements from leftist groups in the west. They were 19
For years, the Kremlin has cast itself as the patron of a besieged Global South and a defender of Palestinian statehood against Western-backed Israeli power.
On June 29, thousands of people gathered at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar — the capital’s designated site for public demonstration — in the second week
Keiko Fujimori’s presidency will put Peru’s fragile democracy to the test The inauguration of right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori, as
The following article is part of a series of reports in The New Humanitarian exploring the influence of the US Christian nationalist movement on both
The war in Iran has reshaped the political landscape that emerged from the 2022 uprising: it has strengthened the Islamic Republic, given new momentum to
After a long vote count, Keiko Fujimori won the presidency, on her fourth attempt, by a margin of around 45,000 votes. The dictator’s daughter —
The memorandum of understanding signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States is a complex event with multiple dimensions. A close reading
The proposals of June 2026 represent the most ambitious attempt at economic reform since the 1990s. One hundred and seventy-six transformations and twenty-three thematic axes
On May 11, Istanbul’s newly renovated Atatürk Cultural Center hosted the first World Decolonization Forum. The event was organized by a coalition of Turkish institutions
Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established
These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are
We can support resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing NATO Intro: I put this argument at a Green Left Zoom discussion on 23 June about
On Sunday, June 21, Colombian voters went to the polls to vote in the second round of the presidential election. That same night, after an
On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office,
Can Armenia’s recent elections really be reduced to a contest between a pro-Western Pashinyan and a pro-Russian opposition? To what extent was the outcome driven
Despite renewed efforts to criminalize and erase queerness, LGBTQ Africans continue to challenge the myth that their lives and identities are somehow un-African. As an
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe Bashkir artist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in Eastern Poland
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
A recognizable habit has metastasized across some segments of Western academic discourse and most of the terminally online Marxist-Leninist political culture: rather than examining conflicts
We gather today in London at a moment when Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate cities, workplaces and communities. Every day brings new
Drawing on Sudan’s colonial history, the conversation will explore patterns of colonial rule across Africa, Asia, and South America and the long shadows they cast
Dependency theory in international political economy [1] Over the past few years, there has been some commendable intellectual energy devoted to revitalising dependency theory for
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse Note: This article was originally written and
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
A delegation of Alliance for Workers’ Liberty members visited Lviv and Kyiv in late May. This followed on from earlier delegations in 2022 and 2023,
On June 1, Ethiopia held parliamentary elections. Results should come out this week, and Reuters along with many other outlets is predicting a “landslide win”
Thailand’s military uses its huge Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which enrols 100,000 high school students every year, to instil conservative nationalism and loyalty to
Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. Empire
Afrophobia in South Africa is often presented as a problem of ‘foreigners versus locals’, as though it emerges naturally from cultural hostility or competition between
This issue of the CASJE Research Digest focuses on the term “Zionism”—a concept that has become increasingly prominent in public discourse across media, politics, and
It’s hard to ignore the selective fixation on the Ukrainian far right and ‘Ukrainian nazis’. To be clear, I’m not interested in making excuses for
How do socialists reconcile their opposition to military expenditure (especially increased military expenditure) with support for Ukraine being provided with the weapons it needs to
On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in
Judith Scheele, Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (London: Profile, 2026), 374 pp. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in
After a month of protests and roadblocks in Bolivia, the situation is contradictory and difficult, but there is also an opening that creates the possibility
The claim that romanticizing the Soviet Union has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin, modern-day Russia, or the war in Ukraine has become a knee-jerk
In December 2022, Sharon Slater, president of an Arizona-based conservative Christian organisation called Family Watch International, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the International Islamic Fiqh
On the Laziness of Parroting “No War but Class War” There’s nothing radical about flexing theory on people who are being bombed and there’s something
SC ASHAs from rural Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh reveal how dominant caste networks obstruct the appointment of ASHA workers from marginalised
Greetings to all the workers and toilers throughout Iran. A few days ago, we received news that was both happy and sad. We learned that
Freedom of Choice The oppression of women in Iran remains one of the clearest expressions of the theocratic order established in 1979. The nationwide “Woman,
In the months during which Iran’s economy has been worn down by inflation, job insecurity, and the consequences of war and regional conflict, working-class women
From CIA recruits to Chinamaxxers I’ve been in the business of explaining China to Americans for around 4 years now – starting from online interactions
On the long road that turned a rapper into Nepal’s prime minister. On March 27, Balendra “Balen” Shah, a 35-year-old rapper, structural engineer, and former
Since January 2026, inflation, recession, war, and internet disruptions have unprecedentedly pressured the women’s labour market in Iran—a market that was already earlier affected by
A community healthcare programme cannot be immune to the injustices of a casteist society. Amid lack of institutional support and refusal to make it a
In “Lenin Versus Democracy,” Dan La Botz replies to criticisms of his article “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism,” first published in LINKS International Journal of
Even as formal recognition of gender equality has progressed over the 24 years since Timor-Leste’s independence, the legacy of the resistance against Indonesian occupation still
By early May, Putin’s regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, and a visibly faltering state response to crises
AI, Energy, and Settler Colonialism in Inner Mongolia Bill Bishop’s reporting this morning on Li Qiang and Ding Xuexiang’s recent comments on AI and computing
Toward the Divine State From the beginning, anarchists suspected that Iran’s revolution might end not in freedom, but in clerical rule. Today, with the benefit
Few peoples in the Middle East have been portrayed as a threat as often as the Kurds. For some, they are separatists. For others, terrorists,
Domestic worker activism is on the rise in Kenya – and across the continent. Liam Taylor is a freelance journalist. This article originally appeared appeared
The entire left spectrum is unprepared for the challenge of defending democratic and social achievements in Europe against external and internal threats from authoritarian states
A recent letter published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the
On the occasion of May 8th, Franziska Davies spoke to Vasyl Korotkyi about the changes in German memory culture with regard to Ukraine and the
This text is written from a position of anarchist critique and offers a view of the existing left parties and movements of the Russian Federation
The military’s record — having seized power by presenting themselves as the people’s protectors against the former repressive regime — is hardly impressive. In late
As women’s presence in state-sponsored nighttime rallies in Iran has increased during the war and even after the ceasefire, this presence has become not only
In the past week, the Islamic Republic executed at least 11 prisoners whose cases had been reported by human rights organizations and state media: Peyman
Readus Jawad and Oliur Sun, central committee members of the newly formed left political platform Network for People’s Action (NPA), in conversation with Jamhoor about
A 2021 Ministry of Education directive – the Children’s Speech Harmonization plan – mandates the use of standard Mandarin Chinese for all preschool instruction and
An international petition against the US-Israeli war on Iran, titled “A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity” and signed by 175 “personalities” from 30 countries,
A specter is haunting Peru. It isn’t the same one that terrorized the elites in the 20th century, or that of revolutions that promised to
Dharmishtha Chauhan from Gujarat opens up about the casteism embedded in her work, the mental toll of harassment and discrimination, and why ASHA workers must
Drawing on a range of regional expertise and perspectives from international relations, political economy, political theory, and sociology, this collective discussion makes the following contributions
Walaa Alqaisiyas paper in Middle East Critique, “Moving Beyond Imperialist Frameworks: The False Equivalence Between Palestine and Xinjiang”, proves a masterclass in a failure of
Though he has been dead for more than 100 years, Vladimir Lenin continues to stand at the centre of debates about modern Marxism for his
A critical reflection on Phuntsok Wangyal and the rise and fall of the Tibetan Communist Party This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa
Eight weeks into Trump’s war with Iran, the origins of the Islamic Republic are worth revisiting. The regime now confronting Washington was born in the
‘AS a popular political movement, Zulu nationalism is dead.’ [1] This was written twenty years ago in a survey of the first ten years of
From 26 to 29 March, around 4,000 people gathered in Porto Alegre for a major international conference against the global rise of fascism and against
The Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions Among the many concepts coined by the Cold War, campism remains
Hungarians have defeated a national autocrat and challenged a broader illiberal international alliance Hungarian voters have swept their far-right strongman Viktor Orbán out of office,
Kurdistan is often reduced to a militarized myth, erasing society, class, and everyday life. This essay argues for restoring social reality at the center, showing
More organised and more dependent on tech and outside support, the war in Sudan is deadlier than ever for civilians. Kiri Rupiah is the Communities
After a decade in ascendance, ultraconservative populism appears to be on the wane. Viktor Orbán lost last weekend’s election in Hungary and, with the war
A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It
Oli Arrested, the Left Routed: Nepal after the March 2026 Elections Nepal’s parliamentary elections of 5 March 2026 produced a result without parallel since 1959:
Last summer, “Revenge on Gold Diggers” topped sales charts in Chinese gaming. The male protagonist spends hundreds of thousands of yuan on a girlfriend who
A recurring question in discussions in the fragmented global left is: what should our program focus on? Fighting fascism? Isolating Western imperialism? Life security? Propagandizing
The Middle East will not be stabilized by threading one crisis at a time. It will only be stabilized by a framework comprehensive enough to
The near-exclusive focus of international opinion and the media on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict conceals a far broader and more systemic reality: a forest of internal
A recent article by Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak in the Monthly Review proves another attempt by the campist left to whitewash the ethnic cleansing
Several hundred demonstrated today against the continued existence of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. In particular, demonstrators called for the dismantling of the memorial, with the
A recent article by Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel, published by the Progressive International, is adulatory about what it claims to be “whole-process democracy” in
To start, please give a brief overview of your findings in your book Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade. What
One of the laziest clichés about Iran is the idea that a single, unified “people” are standing against a single, unified “regime.” This formula works
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews. “The people who run
On March 9, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department was “designating the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global
I am a committed anti-Zionist. This means that I believe that Zionism is a form of settler nationalism. I believe that racism, genocide and apartheid
“It causes me great pain every time I see people of good faith — because I know they act in good faith — reducing Cuba’s
Who invents the national mythology of Belarus? What purposes do new narratives about the country’s past actually serve? Nationalism scholar Nadya Krupenkova examines the top-down
A month ago, many articles appeared to remind the Western public of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This wave of articles
Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Department of International Development Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of ‘Communism,
On Wednesday, 11th March, 2026, along with 135 other nations, India co-sponsored a resolution of the United Nations Security Council which condemned Iran for attacking