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
From Yurt Jurt: In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and the mission behind the Yurt Jurt. We’re here to explore why the term “post-Soviet”
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
From Liberties, by Arash Azizi. A friend of mine once asked me why I get so worked up about Jewish Currents, a left-wing American magazine known for
On 27 July 2024, a major tragedy struck the people of Majdal Shams after a missile fell on a football field, injuring and killing children
From Hope not Hate A Hope not Hate investigator goes undercover inside the race science movement and finds that the notorious Pioneer Fund has relaunched
By Edo Konrad From +972 Magazine Israel’s long-subservient media has spent the past year imbuing the public with a sense of righteousness over the Gaza
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
Ela Kwiecińska is a Polish historian who used to teach at the University of Warsaw. She was fired because of her critical attitude towards Polish
Originally published here.
From The Dial The country’s far right found a model in the former U.S. president. José Derman decided to repurpose his family’s home in La
Should the victory of the National People’s Power coalition led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in Sri Lanka be celebrated as a moment of
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
By Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Over the past century, the term imperialism has been used to define
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
Abstract: Today, the ‘pluriverse’ is considered to be a radical new concept capable of decolonising political thought. However, it is not only decolonial scholarship that
I What’s wrong with this picture? We beg forgiveness for beginning this review with a block quote from a Wikipedia article: The horseshoe theory asserts that advocates
An Attempt to Revive an Entity in a Coma for Decades Subtle efforts are underway in the city of Sweida to revive the role of
Welcome to “The Conflict”, A comprehensive historical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hosted by Dr. Arnon Degani, a historian and Middle Eastern studies expert, and
Author: Subha WijesiriwardenaLead Editors: Islam Al Khatib, Maie Panaga BabkerEditor: Naureen ShameemPeer Review: Suri Kempe, Tooba Syed, Sabika Abbas, Amna NasirAdditional Research: Anonymous contributorProofreading: Rochelle
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
The ‘In Bed with the Right’ podcast, hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan, examines right-wing ideas about sex and gender. In this episode of In
Paul Martial – When discussing Africa, the notion of ethnicity is frequently mentioned, both in general media and among social science researchers. How would you
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,
From Himal Southasian Refugees from the war in Myanmar live in fear of harassment, imprisonment and deportation in the border areas of Northeast India and
What really happened on 7 October 2023? Is this even a question we should be asking after eight months of Israeli bombardment of the claustrophobic
When a site in Finchley, north London, appeared on a list of targets circulating in far-right chat groups calling for actions on 7 August, several
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
From King’s College London Amid growing unrest in Venezuela, as critics both domestic and international accuse incumbent president Nicolás Maduro of forging election results to
They didn’t fall out of a coconut tree. From Get Down and Shruti. It’s only been a couple of days since Biden stepped down and
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
From Hammer & Hope Inspired by a need for more grounded, non-elite analyses of the current situation in Sudan, we interviewed four people whose organizing
From Freedom News Lethal repression of student protests triggers widespread revolt against political quotas and authoritarianism For three weeks, an insurrectionary movement has been rising
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
Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael grew up in central Tigray. He received his Bachelor’s in Ethiopia before spending several years between Ethiopia and Norway, where he continued
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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
From +972 Magazine. In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary. At first
Daniel Randall, one of the three principal co-authors of the Left Renewal text, spoke to Philippe Mesnard, from the editorial board of the journal Mémoires
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
From The New Arab Last week it was falsely reported across social media that the renowned left-wing intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky had passed away.
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
From K. The Magazine “What did y’all think decolonization meant?,” reads the hyper-viral tweet that circulated after October 7. As antisemitic violence erupted in Canada,
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
Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler
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
Asaf Elia-Shalev’s book Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth (University of California Press, 2024) tells the story of the young and impoverished
Support for the Palestinian People Must Not Tolerate Antisemitism or Reactionary Ideas – 2 June 2024
Open letter to the organizations converging within Urgence Palestine. We are left-wing activists, revolutionaries, anarchists, trade unionists, some of us Jewish. As we write these
On the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death, this article revisits his pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his
A statement we co-authored, published in December 2023, “For a consistently democratic and internationalist left“, highlighted the serious problem the global left has with antisemitism.
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
From the Second Cold War Observatory Perhaps more than any other material, lithium has, in recent years, been increasingly presented as the silver bullet for
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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
In his public speeches, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev often refers to Armenia’s sovereign territories as “Western Azerbaijan.” After Azerbaijan’s victory in the 2020 war in
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.
From Himal Southasian India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater
This article was first published in The Sociological Review.
From The Contrapuntal Magazine On the first anniversary of the Sudan war, I am confronted with the thorny pains that accompany every act of remembrance.
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
From Sidecar The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’ orchestrated by globalist
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
‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza, by Yuval Abraham – 3 April 2024
From +972 Magazine The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human
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,
After over a hundred days of bombing in Gaza, tens of thousands of civilians killed and millions fleeing for their lives, residential buildings and mosques
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
In this episode, School of International Service professor Shadi Mokhtari joins Big World to discuss the history of protests in Iran, the unprecedented international reaction
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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
Sally Abed, Yael Berda, Eli Cook and Joshua Leifer in Dissent Winter 2024 After more than two months of intensive bombardment, Israel’s war in Gaza
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
Statement from Palestinian Members of the National Leadership of Standing Together – 30 January 2024
As Palestinian citizens of Israel, our daily existence is marked by systemic discrimination, persecution, neglect, and violence. We live in a state of constant tension,
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Marina Brown of VMN in conversation with Daniel Mang and Ben Gidley Download
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
From Tempest, by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom Sean Larson has written a long response to our short article in which we criticized author Jonah ben Avraham for his
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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
From +972 Magazine Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual
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
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