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From K. The Magazine Since the attack on October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza, the word “genocide” has become a touchstone in public debate.
From Africa Is a Country The global economic balance of power is shifting, and Africa finds itself at a crossroads. The traditional dominance of the
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Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Ivan Kalmar is Professor of Anthropology at the University
In this first dossier edited by the Heatwave media collective, we present a series of short articles by communists from various countries about the local
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In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke University Press, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the transformation of global capitalism and its racial
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In his recent analysis of sexuality in North Korea, proposed on his Youtube channel in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/?lankov?official), Andrei Lankov, a leading expert on Korea, offers
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PSAN: After October 7, 2023, Palestine became a divisive issue within Burma’s revolutionary circles. In this context, how does your organization respond to these layers
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On March 8, Marisela followed the instructions she was given. She dressed in pink and traveled from Miranda state to downtown Caracas to attend the
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This issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas is in partial open access here.