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Tag: Internationalism (en)

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Anti-Imperialism, Solidarity, and the Question of Society, by Siyâvash Shahabi – 27 June 2026

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

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In Mexico, People Fear One Imperialist Aggressor. In Estonia, It’s a Different One, by Simon Pirani – 26 June 2026

From People and Nature We can support resistance to Russian imperialism while opposing NATO Intro: I put this argument at a Green Left Zoom discussion

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Jiří Pelikán’s Letter to Angela Davis: A Campism Case Study, by radical dumpling – 21 June 2026

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

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Statements

Open Letter to the International Anti‑War Conference in London, by Snizhana Oleksun – 20 June 2026

We gather today in London at a moment when Russia’s full‑scale invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate cities, workplaces and communities. Every day brings new

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What We Saw in Lviv and Kyiv, by Gerry Bates – 9 June 2026

A delegation of Alliance for Workers’ Liberty members visited Lviv and Kyiv in late May. This followed on from earlier delegations in 2022 and 2023,

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Antimilitarism Which Forgets Those Who Have Been Attacked Is No Antimilitarism, by Dale Street – 5 June 2026

How do socialists reconcile their opposition to military expenditure (especially increased military expenditure) with support for Ukraine being provided with the weapons it needs to

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Despite Claim to be Leftists, Signatories of Counterpunch Letter Glowingly Praise an Authoritarian Theocracy, by Brian Hioe – 12 May 2026

A recent letter published in Counterpunch, signed by individuals ranging from Ajamu Baraka to Vijay Prashad, proves a remarkable episode in authoritarian apologia from the

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International Anti-Fascist United Front – Against Whom?, by Christian Zeller – 22 April 2026

From 26 to 29 March, around 4,000 people gathered in Porto Alegre for a major international conference against the global rise of fascism and against

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Vijay Prashad’s Iran, by Farah Mokhtareizadeh – 17 April 2026

A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It

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Interviews Podcasts

Transnational Solidarities. Interview with Nico Slate – 13 April 2026

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

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Iran and Anti-Imperial Feminism. Ania Loomba in Conversation with Faranak Miraftab – 22 March 2026

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

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The US & Israeli War with Iran: What Is a Needed Approach for a Principled Socialist Left?, by Frieda Afary – 18 March 2026

I.  What has happened since the United States and Israel launched the latest war on Iran? The United States and Israel started a new round

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Toxic Pacifism. Interview with Mira – 17 March 2026

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

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Videos Webinars

Bill Fletcher Jr. on Global Labour Movement Solidarity – 15 March 2026

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

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Iran, the Western Left and the Ambiguity of Allies, by Sirantos Fotopoulos – 8 March 2026

A Left politics that instructs the Iranian feminist to defer her liberation to the requirements of the anti-Western imperial struggle is not offering her solidarity.

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Articles Book reviews

Marx Was No Friend of Moscow, by Rasmus Fleischer – 5 March 2026

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

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Interviews

Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War. Interview with Farooq Sulehria – 1 March 2026

As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan’s defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad’s Afghanistan policy appears under

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“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others”. A Conversation with Collectif Roja and Leila Hossein Zadeh – 18 February 2026

In the following interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising that took place in Iran

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Statements

Two Weeks of Action: Call by Solidarity Collectives – 5 February 2026

Dear comrades and friends, As we enter the fifth year of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war continues to devastate our communities. This winter,

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Weaponising Gender, by Aminah Jasho, Esme Abbott, Julisa Tambunan – 3 February 2026

Anti-gender politics has become integral to the far-right organising globally, because it offers emotionally charged justifications for centralising power and suppressing civil society. Behind it

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Iran, Ukraine, & the “Common Emancipatory Horizon”, by Adrian Ivakhiv – 18 January 2026

Much of what Paria Rahimi writes in “Why the Left Is Failing Iranians: Against Campism” (Jan. 15) resonates strongly with the experience of Ukrainians. And

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Why the Left Is Failing Iranians: Against Campism, by Paria Rahimi – 15 January 2026

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

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Statements

Solidarity with the People of Sudan, Tanzania and Cameroon, by Abahlali baseMjondolo – 6 November 2025

There is a deepening crisis across Africa. In Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya, the Congo, Swaziland, Cameroon and elsewhere, governments and armed forces backed by corrupt elites

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Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience, by Yao Lin – 15 September 2025

Yao Lin is a social and political philosopher. His latest book is ‘Empty Talks‘ (in Chinese). This article first appeared in International Feminist Journal of

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Rethinking the Syrian Revolution, by Robert Francis – 2 September 2025

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

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Statements

International Women’s Day Statement, by the Women’s Peace Network – 8 March 2025

This International Women’s Day, we, Women’s Peace Network, reaffirm our solidarity with our fellow women in Myanmar and across the world, and call for comprehensive

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Videos Webinars

Joe Grim Feinberg on Rethinking Colonialism and Imperialism – 12 January 2025

00:00:00 Introduction and background information00:03:40 Joe introduces himself and his work00:05:35 Nationalism and internationalism00:06:44 Imperialism and colonialism00:08:42 Recapitulation of the main points of Joe’s article00:21:44

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Articles

Resisting Local Authoritarianism and Multipolar Imperialisms in Georgia. A Deeper Look into the Protests – 11 December 2024

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

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Articles

Syria, Geopolitics and the Left, by Santiago Alba Rico – 9 December 2024

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

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Interviews

Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry. Interview with Ashley Smith about the rise of capitalist China, by Thomas Hummel – 23 November 2024

From Tempest Increasingly, understanding the inter-imperialist competition between the United States and China is becoming essential to understanding the dynamics of the modern capitalist system.

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Statements

Manifesto – The Peoples Want – 8 October 2024

Originally published here.

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Interviews

Political Imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the Need for a Global Left Alternative. An Interview with Ilya Matveev – 28 September 2024

By Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Over the past century, the term imperialism has been used to define

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“Zionists Out of Finchley”? Issues for Anti-fascist and Anti-racist Activists, by Daniel Randall and Ben Gidley – 12 August 2024

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

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El Pueblo: Understanding the history behind the contested presidential election in Venezuela, by Thomas Purcell – 1 August 2024

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

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Interviews

“Syrians Celebrate When Russian Generals, Involved in War Crimes in Syria, Are Being Killed in Ukraine”. Interview with Leila Al-Shami – 23 July 2024

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

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In Sudan, the People’s Revolution Versus the Elite’s Counterrevolution, by Sara Abbas, Nisrin Elamin, Rabab Elnaiem and Abdelraouf Omer – 23 July 2024

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

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Insurrection in Bangladesh, by Contre Attaque – 22 July 2024

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

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Interviews

“It Feels Like It’s Only Happening to You”: A Conversation with Geographer Teklehaymanot Weldemichel on the War in Tigray and the Scholar’s Role in Opposing Violence – 10 July 2024

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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Interviews

“Azerbaijan Has Its Own Version of the Putinist Slogan ‘We Can Do It Again!’”. Interview with Azerbaijani Journalist Bashir Kitachayev – 30 April 2024

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

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Rogue Journalists Are Denouncing The Gaza Genocide Because They Want You To Deny The Next One, by Gerald Roche – 30 April 2024

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

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Sudan War: A Counter-Revolution Against the Corporeal and the Imaginative, by Lina Dohia – 10 April 2024

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.

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(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, by Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek – 4 December 2023

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The Liquid Imperialism That Engulfed Syria, by Yassin al-Haj Saleh – 7 September 2023

How regional and global powers, internal colonialism and Salafi-jihadist subterfuge converged to short-circuit the Syrian struggle against despotism From New Lines Magazine. Syria is a

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The Global South’s Views on Ukraine Are More Complex Than You May Think, by Michael Karadjis – 17 August 2023

From New Lines Magazine On July 19, South Africa announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be attending the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in

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“New McCarthyism” Petition Illustrates Western Leftists’ Failure of Internationalism, by Brian Hioe – 8 August 2023

A recent exposé in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the

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Decolonial Thinking and the War in Ukraine, by Pierre Madelin – 27 February 2023

On 24 February, the Russian army invaded Ukraine as part of a large-scale military operation aimed at rapidly decapitating Ukrainian power and subjugating the country.

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Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate, by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Elly Leary  – 15 November 2022

“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s

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Reinventing Internationalism (2/4), by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval – 18 March 2022

The bankruptcy of a one-sided ‘anti-imperialism’ Some on the left still have trouble counting to two. Having two enemies and not just one, fighting on

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Fuck leftist westplaining, by Zosia Brom – 4 March 2022

Earlier this week, the Polish parliamentary progressive left party, Razem, issued a statement in which they announce that they are cutting ties with two European

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Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Origins of Campism, by Dan La Botz – 31 January 2022

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

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The Monthly Review’s China Issue Reveals the Narcissistic Inward Gaze, Self-Flagellating Politics of the Western Left, by Brian Hioe – 9 September 2021

At this late stage in the game, one should not be surprised at how incredibly poor the western left’s understanding of China is. Many western

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Internationalism as a Strategic Opportunity: Tobita Chow Responds to Max Elbaum – 24 October 2017

In an essay on “Left strategy after Charlottesville”, Max Elbaum makes “an argument for the left to interact with the post-Charlottesville surge of resistance by

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