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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
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
Domestic worker activism is on the rise in Kenya – and across the continent. Liam Taylor is a freelance journalist. This article originally appeared appeared
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
The progressive foreign response has often privileged geopolitics and anti-American imperialism at the cost of the struggle for democracy in Iran. The 13th century Persian
The recent webinar convened by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) under its Countering Anti-Rights Actors (CARA) thematic area marked an important moment
Rodrigo Duterte can no longer perform the strongman persona that supposedly generated his appeal, yet the political loyalty towards him has only intensified. “Charisma” can’t
In the following analysis, Somayeh Rostampour shows how the repression that the Iranian government has carried out to crush protests, the monarchist attempt to co-opt
Discourse about antisemitism in America has become a hopeless, meaningless mess. Particularly in the last few years, pro-Israel and right-wing organizations and politicians have insisted
I. What has happened since the United States and Israel launched the latest war on Iran? The United States and Israel started a new round
Solidarity Collectives: Who are you, and how would you describe yourself? What role do you play in Solidarity Collectives? Mira: My name is Mira, and
The US attacked Kharg, but it did not hit Iran’s oil export terminal there. That apparent contradiction may explain the nature of this war better
In recent years, we have seen a spectacular rise in reactionary, authoritarian and/or fascist far-right movements across the globe. They already govern half of the
Obsessed with Israel, the anti-antisemitism industry is failing to confront the threat of right-wing nationalism — and, in some cases, making it worse America’s antisemitism
Every week seems to bring news of another attempted massacre of diaspora Jews. This week, it was outside Detroit, Michigan, where an armed man rammed
Iran forces a question many Western-left debates avoid: are political rights truly universal? When repression abroad is endlessly contextualized rather than opposed, solidarity dissolves into
After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions. I woke up
The phrase “Epstein class” is now in use as a shorthand for the forms of networking and mutual patronage practised by the rich and powerful
Why have misogynistic public narratives become so prevalent in Russia in recent years? What does the war in Ukraine have to do with it? Yekaterina
South Asian states have obscured longstanding cross-border ties in order to consolidate national control. This history shows that dominant national identities crystallised only in the
Is India’s role in Kashmir “settler colonial” or part of a shared legacy of internal colonialism across South Asia? India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit
As early as 1864, Europe’s left was split by a Russian war of aggression against a democratic neighbour — namely Poland. For Karl Marx, the
With the escalation of confrontation between Israel, the United States, and Iran, Iraq has entered an extremely tense phase at all security, political, and economic
The killing of Ali Khamenei, alongside a number of senior figures from the IRGC and the ruling apparatus, is an exceptional development in Iran’s current
As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under
Let’s be blunt. Kidnapping, arresting, or killing a political figure of one country by another state is defined as illegal in international law, not because
The rise of Donald Trump’s extreme right-wing authoritarianism, particularly during his second presidential term, has given rise to a multitude of interpretations of the social
This article examines how carceral safety logics have driven cross-political, anti-transgender alliances within the global ‘anti-gender’ movement. While anti-gender politics are typically associated with right-wing,
The company in question still operates in Estonia and Jordan The internet shutdown during Iran’s protests of December 2025 into January 2026, the longest in
While the world argues about sanctions, socialism and geopolitics, the Cuban people themselves are quietly disappearing I have been thinking a lot about Cuba lately.
The fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is being marked by the most intense and destructive shelling of Ukrainian cities since the war
Sasha Talaver: You’ve been in the army for almost four years. What is your job now? How are you feeling? Taras Bilous: I’m a drone
Hardline Islamists gain ground in historic election following the 2024 July Uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina. On February 12, 2026, Bangladesh held its first general
On 21 February, a protest took place outside the British Museum in central London. The catalyst was a Daily Telegraph story which claimed (misleadingly, as
February 21, 2026, saw Iranian universities once again turn into arenas of protest, chanting, and confrontation. The first day of in-person classes after weeks of
One in three of the first 100 days of the new Bolivian government, headed up by Rodrigo Paz and his vice president, Edmand Lara, has
The LDP wins two-thirds of the lower house, but behind Takaichi’s triumph lie limited real support, falling wages, and an open geopolitical contest with Beijing
Deconstructing the Myth of the Man Who Cannot Be Raped We were wrong when we confined the discourse of victimhood to women and children, and
In July 2025, Johannesburg was the scene of a tense stand-off between two diametrically opposed political forces. A small group of Operation Dudula members, several
In the following interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising that took place in Iran
Militaries play a major role in the politics of many countries. They determine whether elections can occur and who can compete. From Egypt to Pakistan
In the summer of 2019, a new polemic emerged around the seemingly inexhaustible topic of Islam in France. During a meeting of the summer school
Odisha has largely been untouched by the kind of Dalit and OBC movements that shifted the political landscape in other states. Consequently, these groups have
From CrimethInc.: We present a interview with Htet Khine Soe, an activist who organized in Burma for more than 20 years before relocating to Mae Sot
AntiNote: the following interview with Leila al-Shami was transcribed from a 15 January 2026 broadcast on Radio LoRa, a community radio station in Zurich, Switzerland
The Trump administration and a network of far-right think tanks are increasingly targeting the EU’s digital regulations and rules on content moderation. Far-right MEPs have