Democratic region faces an impossible choice if it loses NATO support On Saturday 15 February, Turkish-backed forces in northeastern Syria killed journalist Egîd Roj. This
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Settler colonialism is very much alive in the state of Israel today. Open a newspaper anywhere in the world and you are likely to see
With the Trump administration having now been in office for around one month, the spillover effects on Taiwanese domestic politics are being felt in a
This weekend, some of Europe’s most powerful politicians, many of whom lead the single largest parties in their respective countries, will gather in Madrid as
The United Arab Emirates has become a sub-imperial power in Africa, investing in ports, airports and infrastructure projects to extract resources and increase its global
Away from the Red Sea crisis that dominated the headlines of 2024, the space for female political and social actors in Yemen has continued to
Current geopolitical competition has deepened into a Second Cold War between the US and China, but this is no longer a fight over territory but
Abstract The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers
While Yoon was barricaded inside his home, his supporters waved U.S. flags and adopted Trump’s “Stop the Steal” slogan to protest Yoon’s impeachment. For the
In 2011, Donald Trump spoke before an audience of about a thousand in Las Vegas, teasing a prospective, if fanciful, presidential run. Halfway through a
Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a
Serbia has been shaken in recent months by student-led protests. What began as an isolated demonstration to honour the dead and demand accountability after a
In our view, Sina Arnold and Juliane Karakayali make a compelling argument that research on antisemitism and racism need to be interconnected. We agree with
China’s ongoing policies in Tibet have long been criticized for undermining the region’s cultural, religious, and linguistic identity. A particularly alarming aspect of this strategy
The 2025 presidential election in Belarus is happening amid political repression, societal polarisation, Russian dominance, and Western sanctions. Autocrat Lukashenka hopes it will restore his
This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.
This article first appeared in the journal Adresses – Internationalisme & Démocratie.
What might a lasting peace look like from the leftist perspective? Upon what principles can a just European security architecture be established? In their report,
Shannon Ward: Your book deals centrally with the biopolitics of language oppression, charting how techniques of governance institutionalize the elimination of Manegacha. In Chapter 6,
Soon after the Hamas atrocity of 7 October 2023, while Israel was bombing Gaza in retaliation but before it invaded, Aaron Bastani of Novara Media
During the period when Bangladesh was still a part of Pakistan, the resistance of its people began against ethnic discrimination, regional disparities, economic inequality, oppression,
Two emails back to back in my inbox, received within two hours of each other a few days ago. The first, a press release from
From Ojalá Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and participated in the country’s 1979 Revolution. She has a
Why has pressure on LGBT+ people in Russia increased to frightening proportions since the full-scale invasion into Ukraine? How are people fighting back against repression?
Donald Trump’s election victory has elicited a range of responses from progressive, Left-leaning people. Among the most widespread in India is a certain schadenfreude: Trump,
Quickly ruled an “insurrection,” the rogue invocation of martial law in South Korea on December 3rd was a self-coup by President Yoon Suk Yeol to maintain
This article was prepared by a Georgian anti-authoritarian in exile in communication with local collectives in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, and Zugdidi. Georgians themselves refer to the
I am going to be very harsh: there is something morally nauseating about Western hypocrisy, which has always killed civilians or let them be killed
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent Putinist ideologue from Russia, was in Delhi last week. There has been no critical scrutiny of his visit among political
The dramatic scenes in South Korea, which took place in the night from 2nd to 3rd December Korean time, could have been taken from the
At the end of January this year, I visited South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) together with Zainab Murad Sahrab, the co-chair of the KNK [Kurdistan National
‘Northern frontier culture’ (北疆文化, umrat khiliin soyol) has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. Numerous
While everyone offers answers to the causes of the far-right’s victories, they will win and continue to win. To avoid the future that this trend
Julian Go is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. His research explores the social logics, forms and impact of empires and colonialism; postcolonial/decolonial thought
Sarah Cameron is an American historian at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include the history of crimes against humanity, environmental issues, and the
The Sudanese people and the revolutionary forces are at a critical juncture, caught in the violent grip of a war that began on April 15,
This year marks 30 years since China launched its ambitious Tibet-Aid Project (援藏计划), a vast and ongoing party-state effort to reshape the region. Unveiled at
What is happening to transgender people in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Why is the Russian state so obsessed with transness? Is it
Over the last decade, supporters of the Republican Party and conservative political movements have become more diverse, with the movement attracting increasing numbers of Latinos, African
In July 2024, hundreds of influential far-right leaders gathered to network at the “National Conservatism” conference, or “NatCon,” in Washington, D.C. While the event was
This article analyzes the crimes committed by Hamas in Israel on October 7th through a comparison with other historical massacres. This can give us a
Many Cuban economists who argue for a bigger role for the market in the island, insist that they are not advocates for capitalism because according
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In his interview, “Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative,” Ilya Matveev suggests that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was motivated
For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable. On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to
This post introduces a symposium on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. How did the American state come to
In South Africa’s watershed election last May, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in the country’s
Jilly Boyce Kay is a scholar of Media and Cultural Studies, specialising in feminist theory. This article first appeared in Feminist Media Studies Volume 25,
Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the Qiao Collective’s “Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective”, published in the Monthly Review, is to what extent it focuses on
For the vast majority of Ukrainians, Syria before 2011 was probably just another Arab country, but after the war began, it came to symbolize the
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in
General Ne Win’s Legacy of Burmanization in Myanmar: The Challenge to Peace in the Twenty-First CenturyBy Saw Eh Htoo and Tony WatersPalgrave Macmillan, 2024, 225
Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d’état and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). These military juntas are pursuing
In my previous post, I wanted to indicate why I think the Nunes book is important, useful, and underrated. Now I want to spell out
The 2024 Lok Sabha Elections produced the façade of sameness as 2019 was almost re-enacted in Kerala. Yet, the present elections should ring the alarm
Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (London: Verso, 2021), 320 pp. Lots of people are reading Rodrigo Nunes’s Neither Horizontal
The DRC is the subject of renewed interest, linked to the risk of regionalization of the M23 war in the east and to the focus
A proposal to apply the concept of ‘institutional racism’ to antisemitism The Berlin Neutrality Act, which was ruled unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court in
Murad Gattal spoke to Azerbaijani trade unionists and left-wing activists about the state of society following Ilham Aliyev’s election for the fifth presidential term and
Western media outlets’ resort to the cliché of Myanmar as a “forgotten” country is not only self-incriminating—it risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy as the resistance
Ideas of a specific form of ‘Muslim antisemitism’ carry the risk of unjustified blanket suspicion. Both antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism must be taken seriously, regardless
Saul Dubow is a South African historian specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article first appeared in
Britain has recently gained notoriety as a global hotspot for anti-trans politics and ‘gender critical’ feminism. But what is the relationship between British ‘gender critical’
The seduction of speaking as a Jew – and why I will not do it Of the many indignities Jews have been forced to endure
The chorus of authoritarian propaganda against democratic protests should concern us all. When Greta Thunberg, a student activist against climate change, tweeted a “toolkit” comprising
Civil society organizations from the Himalaya request your support to save the Himalayas! Prompted by the increasing frequency, scale, and intensity of climate disasters such as
As thousands of bodies are blown apart in Gaza and children starve to death in the city’s rubble-strewn streets, numerous groups are exploiting this suffering
This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture increasingly coalesce around self-victimising articulations of
‘Speak Mandarin!’ At a concert in Macau in the autumn of 2023, Cantopop superstar Eason Chan used an interlude to talk about his songwriting process.
This article was first published in The Sociological Review.
Most liberal and left academics and intellectuals tend to defend, or at least excuse, the Cuban government. This is to a certain degree understandable with
At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his
The current Israel–Hamas war is one horrific outcome of a century-long Zionist settler colonial project, which continues to violently shape the political geography of Israel/Palestine.
This essay makes two arguments. First, it argues that the analytical frame of settler colonialism is very productive in order to understand, describe, and at
I recently found a photograph of me as a baby, and on the back, scribbled in my father’s handwriting, the words: “Our daughter is blue.”
Udi Greenberg is an assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). His scholarship and teaching focuses especially on the history of ideas,
A new book – The US Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa – reveals the role played by some right wing US
It is Saturday morning in Tel Aviv. 147 days have gone by since the morning of Saturday October 7. Nothing can be said without mentioning
The author’s pieces on Hindutva in the 1980s had forecast many of the trends that are visible today. K. Balagopal was a civil rights activist
As violent conflict rises across West Africa, the phrase “farmer-herder conflict” has taken hold from the local to international levels. Farmer-herder conflict is an umbrella
In January 1918, two months after Soviet power was established in Petrograd, one of the Red Guard units tasked with securing that power on the
JURIST: Professor Kanjwal, to the readers of JURIST who might be unaware, can you give a brief history of the territory of Kashmir, including how
Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social
Why is Russian aggression in Ukraine imperialist? How is it possible to interpret it based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, and how do these interpretations
Having worked for years on the fronts of feminism, anti-racism and the fight against discrimination based on colour, colonisation, gender identity or sexual orientation, we
In her research, Shadi Mokhtari lays out three Middle Eastern experiences of human rights – as mockery of morality, manifesting morality, and moral maze. Human
Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist
How has the political meaning of resistance come to be devalued? What are the affinities between the artistic critique of capitalism and a fascination with
White supremacist movements are rising worldwide, and they come with heightened bigotry against many groups. While full of hatred, white supremacy also thrives on fear
You’ve been interested in the Palestinian question for a long time, without being a pro-Palestine activist. What does a revolutionary critique have to say about
Gita Ramaswamy, Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary (New Delhi: Navayana Publishing, 2022), 432 pp. Ammel Sharon is Assistant Professor of
I don’t believe that ‘death to the Jews’ is a cry against poverty and oppression The word ‘context’ was quickly smuggled into conversations that took
Summary: Ahmet İnsel’s article titled “Crimes Against Humanity In Israel and Palestine” discusses Hamas’ attack on Israel on the 7th of October 2023 and the
“My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza”, reads a placard held by a Jewish woman at a protest in Mexico against a previous Israel
Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a
The appalling reaction of some progressives to the massacre of innocents has been decades in the making ‘He who hates himself must be feared, because
From the Jewish diaspora to the Palestinians, R. Binyamin’s ideas show how alternatives to mainstream Zionism were imagined even in its earliest days. I spend
The killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in Iran a year ago ignited massive protests by Iranians against the Islamic regime. But civil unrest has been
Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C.. Her teaching and research focus on human rights, Middle East
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and