Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. In October 2022, just before the
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From Himal Southasian Mass detentions of CJP protestors in Delhi expose the Modi government’s disregard for democratic rights, and supercharge comparisons with Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
When protests begin attracting large numbers of people who are willing to risk police beatings, it is usually a sign of anti-incumbency setting in. In
To understand the enduring resilience of the U.S. dollar and the reality behind the current wave of de-dollarization rhetoric, the Monitor spoke with Professor Ho-fung
Thiago Gama: I begin with the question you must be tired of seeing badly formulated. In Fire Alarm, you show that Benjamin inverts Marx’s metaphor.
From Himal Southasian Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold
From New Lines Magazine A member of the persecuted Russian Mongol minority reveals the life he hopes to keep in the US, and the one
Sudan’s brutal civil war continues with no end in sight in its fourth year, largely due to the negative role of outside actors. The United
Queues for sold-out Singapore screenings of “Dear You”, a mostly Teochew-language mainland Chinese film, reveal attachments to ethnic Chinese dialects that decades of state policy
Maksym Kazakov: Hello, John! You are a very well-known historian in Ukraine, and every work or article you publish sparks lively discussion. People have very
Last week, thousands of Serbs turned out for the funeral of Ratko Mladić. Mladić commanded the forces of Republika Srpska, the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic,
Zionism, as a cultural and political movement of Hebrew revival, sought to forge a connection between the modern Jewish people and a deep past located
Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. Russian imperialism is a subject that
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand
Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah (1774-1844) and Khatijah Sidek (1918-1982) exercised political authority across a Malay world divided by colonialism. Their lives show how such figures
The Serbian general and war criminal Ratko Mladić, the butcher of Srebrenica and too many other places to mention, died last week. It’s an opportunity
The international left keeps asking Iranians which force is permitted to hurt them first. A solidarity that requires that answer is worth very little. I
Few atrocities have been documented as extensively as the Srebrenica genocide. Yet three decades later, denial remains politically entrenched, while the evidentiary record painstakingly assembled
From The Republic As Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo prepares to hand power to his son, Teodorín, a gas boom and fears of Chinese expansion are
how the 1968 invasion of czechoslovakia destroyed an autonomous movement If you live outside of the Czech Republic (sorry, I just can’t bring myself to
On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about
The ‘Lines on a Map’ podcast focuses on current developments in the Middle East and every week speaks to a journalist writing for The Amargi.
“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD
From Equator How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war It is hard to think of another contemporary conflict that has been
When ABC Belarus asked to take part in the Anarchist Bookfair in Bremgarten, Switzerland, they weren’t planning to recruit soldiers for the Ukrainian army or
When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy
Why was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed? What was its impact on Ukraine? How is this deal debated in modern-day Germany? Historian Bernhard H. Bayerlein, author
Much of the work on the origins of whiteness that has been produced in the last few decades has focused on the British empire and
If you solely look at policy, it’s pretty easy to see why the Soviet Union is often described at being at the vanguard of feminism.
From Liberal Currents Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (New York: Random House, 2026), 416 pp.
how parts of the left continue to perpetuate soviet tokenization In July 1930, a Black toolmaker from Detroit stepped off a ship in Leningrad, believing
World-System Theory was built to make a particular political error impossible: the error of mistaking rivalry between powers and blocs within global capitalism for a
From Minority Africa From a 17th-century Angolan queen to a Ghanaian musician in exile, this June, we’re revisiting some of the lives that shaped and
From Himal Southasian A top monk’s alleged rape of a child threatens to unmask the Sri Lankan sangha, but its moral decay is rooted in
The current and very public discourse between Poland and Ukraine over a military unit named after “heroes of the UPA” has produced the diplomatic equivalent
A note on Angela Davis before we begin. Her contributions to exposing racial and social injustice in the United States are significant and worth stating
Trilingual Hong Kong newspapers from the 1940s, a patriotic Japanese business man, and Imperial Appropriation of Decolonial Discourse Note: This article was originally written and
Drawing on Sudan’s colonial history, the conversation will explore patterns of colonial rule across Africa, Asia, and South America and the long shadows they cast
From Public Books Durba Mitra, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026), 352 pp. Durba
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
Judith Scheele, Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara (London: Profile, 2026), 374 pp. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in
From Phenomenal World China’s class politics after 1989 In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political
From Equator Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive A few hours after I was born, my mother and I were
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,
For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are “Arabs”, “enemies”, and a
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
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
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
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
From Equator Gavin Jacobson: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? Rahmane Idrissa: The violence itself isn’t unprecedented by the standards of
From royal court legends to a 17th-century deity, gay people have been part of Chinese life and literature for millennia. Since the 1990s, legal reforms
A critical reflection on Phuntsok Wangyal and the rise and fall of the Tibetan Communist Party This essay by Tibetan-Canadian journalist and poet Kalden Dhatsenpa
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
‘AS a popular political movement, Zulu nationalism is dead.’ [1] This was written twenty years ago in a survey of the first ten years of
Today, memory must encompass many voices. The one about the Warsaw Ghetto will either be polyphonic, convoluted, and politically entangled—or it will be absent altogether.
The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor
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
00:00:00 Introduction of the speakers 00:02:38 Introduction to today’s webinar 00:04:20 Germany, racism, colonialism 00:09:27 Extermination and extraction 00:12:04 German-Russian inter-imperiality 00:16:20 The “German-ness Contract”
From Liberal Currents Toby Buckle’s “It Wasn’t Fascism All Along” is exactly the kind of argument worth engaging directly. It is a serious argument that
Ho-fung Hung, The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 336 pp. “The contempt and naive idealization of China
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
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
This month, China’s National People’s Congress held its annual meeting and passed a new law on ‘promoting ethnic unity and progress’. The legislation further codifies
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
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
On this episode of In Theory, Durba Mitra returns to the podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, The Future That
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:46 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Bill’s political biography 00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement 00:15:53 Race and class in the
The phrase “conservative revolution” made its first appearance in a 1927 speech delivered by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After World War II, it
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
From Sidecar On 1 February, Laura Fernández of the ruling Partido Pueblo Soberano won the national elections in Costa Rica by a landslide. With 48
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
From Boston Review Alex Shams: You have written extensively on sociopolitical transformations in the Middle East in recent decades, including the Arab Spring revolutions that
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
Last October, the war in Sudan took a new turn with the capture of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces. The city in western
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
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
From JTA Only about one-third of American Jews are Zionists, according to a recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America — the
A New Age of Protest in Iran. Interview with Chowra Makaremi and Amir Ahmadi Arian – 28 January 2026
The protests that began in Iran last month have been suppressed with a level of state violence not seen since the 1980s, when the Islamic
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
In this special episode of Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100, Harsh Mander speaks to Felix Pal, a lecturer on political science and international relations
The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation—one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and
00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The
Popular histories tend to locate capitalism’s origins in Europe, only later moving outward to other parts of the globe. Not so, says historian Sven Beckert.
From n+1 Magazine […] The basic provocation of Wages for Housework is that capitalism relies on the invisible and uncompensated labor of women, and that
Welcome to our Israel/Palestine Podcast – a project by graduating high school students from Berlin-Neukölln. Home to Germany’s largest Palestinian diaspora and a second home to
How can we shift the focus from discussing state gender policy to seeking alternatives? Why does this matter now, in the third year of the
Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history? Historians Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková discuss.
Chenchen Zhang is associate professor in international relations at Durham University, where she is also director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. This article
00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:58 Recap of the main themes of Jacob’s article Violence and the Left 00:23:15 Q&A intro 00:24:03 How did settler colonialism become an
Every year on May 9th, commemorative events are held in big cities across Europe, such as Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Madrid, among others, to mark
Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between
In an affidavit before the Supreme Court, the [BJP-controlled, editor’s note] Madhya Pradesh government claimed India’s caste system was founded on “social harmony, equality, and
From Inside Indonesia This special issue of Inside Indonesia commemorates the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the 1965–1966 genocide, when an estimated half a
The denial of the genocide which took place in Indonesia after 1 October 1965 has cultural, legal, discursive and affective dimensions. This genocide was one
In this episode of “Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100”, Apoorvanand Jha discusses how Hindu and Hindutva common sense kept the RSS popular even though