On 20 August 2026 the Guardian published an open letter to political prisoners in Iran under the title “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two
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On June 24, 2025, the day after Israel bombed Evin Prison, the Iranian labor activist and former political prisoner Keyvan Mohtadi wrote about the people
1. The Struggle Over the Meaning of Anti-Imperialism War not only tears apart bodies, territories, homes, and the conditions of collective life; it also fragments
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
A concerningly large portion of the left have taken on the habit of telling themselves a fairytale about Russia. It goes something like this: somewhere
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.
Read on Mina’s Substack Mina Khanlarzadeh (Ph.D., Columbia University; B.Sc., Physics, Sharif University of Technology) is a historian whose interdisciplinary work engages global political thought,
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
Opposition to US wars unites circles that claim to be opposed to one another. A tribune published in Counterpunch proposes six resolutions regarding the United
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
In 1970, the French third-worldist magazine Partisans – launched by the famous anticolonialist François Maspero (1932-2015) – released a special edition titled “The Palestinian people
I have been reading left analyses of Iran recently and there is this pattern that keeps appearing in many. Religion disappears. The theocratic structure of
With the protests that have broken out in Iran, one has seen all-too-typical reactions from those often referred to as tankies or campists. With the
Since 28 December 2025, millions of Iranians have been fighting the Islamic dictatorship across the country. Protest actions have unfolded in hundreds of locations, spanning
The recent “12-day war” between Israel and Iran represents the latest manifestation of the rapid descent into generalized barbarism to which the capitalist system has
How the Left Misread Syria The Syrian Revolution began in the context of the Arab Spring. While there were many reasons for protest, people took
The following articles are among those which have been published by Links in a series entitled “Debating Venezuela” since August 2024. More articles are being
By Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Over the past century, the term imperialism has been used to define
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
Multipolarity is the compass orienting the Left’s understanding of international relations. All streams of the Left in India and globally have for long advocated for
I began this paper as a contribution to discussions in the Internationalism from Below Group, whose members’ criticisms helped to improve it. I finished it
Yesterday, July 11, 2021, Cubans in several cities took to the streets to protest lack of health care, lack of food, and to demand freedom.
[The following Open Letter was a collaborative effort of a group of Syrian writers and intellectuals and others who stand in solidarity with them. It
Introduction: Conspiracy theories and “pod people” When I wrote “Against Conservative Leftism” just over two years ago, I considered it disturbing that socialists would rally
How did we get here? For an infection to spread, you need both a germ (a virus, a bacterium, a spore or similar) and a
Germ 1: Political confusion and despair I now wish to return to the question of the agent of the Red-Brown zombie plague, that is: what
From Viewpoint Magazine “Imperialism,” David Harvey announced at a roundtable last year, should be seen as a “sort of metaphor, rather than anything real.” This
In 1983, 23 years after its independence and the succession of several neo-colonial regimes, the Upper Volta was one of the most materially destitute countries
As is well known, the period since the early 1970s has been one of massive historical structural transformations of the global order, frequently referred to