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Tag: Nationalism (en)

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How Power, Caste and Politics Perverted Sri Lankan Buddhism, by Tisaranee Gunasekara – 29 June 2026

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

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The Cost of Selective Memory and Who Benefits From It, by radical dumpling – 22 June 2026

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

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Interviews

The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join. Interview with Nandita Sharma – 21 June 2026

In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the

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At the Coalface of Military Indoctrination: The Thai ROTC, by Pasit Wongngamdee – 9 June 2026

Thailand’s military uses its huge Reserve Officer Training Corps program, which enrols 100,000 high school students every year, to instil conservative nationalism and loyalty to

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How Israeli Classrooms Indoctrinate Jewish Supremacy. Interview with Nurit Peled-Elhanan – 28 May 2026

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

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Inventing the Kurdish Enemy: How States, Nationalism, and Conspiracy Theories Turned a People Into an Enemy, by Jan Ilhan Kizilhan – 17 May 2026

Few peoples in the Middle East have been portrayed as a threat as often as the Kurds. For some, they are separatists. For others, terrorists,

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How Iran’s State Uses Women in Nighttime Rallies. Interview with Azadeh Kian – 7 May 2026

As women’s presence in state-sponsored nighttime rallies in Iran has increased during the war and even after the ceasefire, this presence has become not only

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Interviews

The Coup Belt. Interview with Rahmane Idrissa – 30 April 2026

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

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The Uses and Abuses of the Anti-Colonial in Global Reactionary Politics, by Gorkem Altinors, Priya Chacko, Miri Davidson, Aliaksei Kazharski, Sivamohan Valluvan, Chenchen Zhang – 30 April 2026

This article first appeared in International Political Sociology, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2026.

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Beyond the Mountain Myth: Kurdistan as Society, by Siyâvash Shahabi – 19 April 2026

Kurdistan is often reduced to a militarized myth, erasing society, class, and everyday life. This essay argues for restoring social reality at the center, showing

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Palestine: The Tree That Hides the Colonial Forest of the Middle East – 13 April 2026

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

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A Utopia of Workers and Partisans, by Nadya Krupenkova – 25 March 2026

Who invents the national mythology of Belarus? What purposes do new narratives about the country’s past actually serve? Nationalism scholar Nadya Krupenkova examines the top-down

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‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ and the Perils of ‘Nationalist’ Violence, by Nissim Mannathukkaren – 24 March 2026

Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Department of International Development Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of ‘Communism,

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Book reviews

Partitions and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Gita Ramaswamy – 9 March 2026

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

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“Ancient Palestine vs. New Israel”?, by Daniel Randall – 22 February 2026

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

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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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Russian or ‘of Russia’? Turkish or ‘of Turkey’?, by Sam Harshbarger – 27 January 2026

Turkish nationalism has become more like its Russian counterpart Amongst the illiberal “bad guys” who have been on the up-and-up over the past decade, Putin

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Campists React to Iran Protests With Usual Dehumanization of Non-Western Struggles, by Brian Hioe – 19 January 2026

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

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You Can Expel Them, But You Can’t Replace Them [Migrant labour in Russia], by Insan Khismay – 26 November 2025

How does strict immigration control square with Russia’s need for labor? How will new restrictions affect the lives of the country’s most vulnerable residents? Insan

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Interviews

JVP Still Denies the Tamil Ethnic Question. Interview with Sharika Thiranagama – 17 September 2025

From Jaffna Monitor Kaniyan Pungundran: I see your life as a story of human resilience — or perhaps more broadly, the resilience of Sri Lankan

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East Germany – The Promised Land of the AfD, by Thomas Klikauer – 22 August 2025

Given the seemingly endless string of AfD successes across Germany – particularly in the East – there is a very real possibility of the neo-fascist

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Interviews

The History of the Thai-Chinese and the Chinese-Thai. Interview with Sittithep Eaksittipong – 14 August 2025

How Thailand and China solved their nation-building dilemma Henry Rory O’Connor: Who is the Chinese population of Thailand? What does the rest of the country’s

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Icons and Guns: Inside Russia’s Largest Far-Right Group, by Giovanni Pigni – 5 August 2025

From New Lines Magazine Emboldened by an ultraconservative state agenda and the war in Ukraine, radical nationalists are cautiously welcomed by the government In a

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Interviews

It Is Only a Matter of Time before the Communist Movement Reemerges in a New Historical Form. Interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde – 30 July 2025

An interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde from the forthcoming issue of Historical Expertise. Interviewer: Yurii Latysh. ­ Historical Expertise [HE]: Your book Fascism in the Middle

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Interviews

Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025

What does the work of late Marx tell us about anti-colonial and indigenous struggles’ role in overcoming capitalism? What are the revolutionary trajectories of our

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Still Romanticizing Masculinity? Interview with Rahaf Aldoughli – 22 January 2025

Marta Bellingreri in discussion with Rahaf Aldoughli, author of Romancing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Ideology, and Identity In your book, you wrote about the

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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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Re-Examining Lenin’s Writings on the National Question: An Early Marxist Critique From the Imperial Periphery, by Hanna Perekhoda – 1 June 2024

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

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Jews and Other ‘Others’: Identity and Constellation in Intersectional and Critical Theory, by Christine Achinger – 16 November 2023

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The Haredi Zionist Who Advocated Radical Openness, by Tom Pessah – 27 September 2023

From the Jewish diaspora to the Palestinians, R. Binyamin’s ideas show how alternatives to mainstream Zionism were imagined even in its earliest days. I spend

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Mussolini in Beijing, by Ho-fung Hung – 15 February 2023

The Chinese model of state-directed capitalism is coming apart — and it’s unleashing a new authoritarianism. In 2008, before his first serious bid for the

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The Tragedy of the Ukrainian Working Class, by Karmína – 11 July 2022

At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or

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Eternal Enemies. The 20th Century Origins of Vietnamese Sinophobia, by J Frank Parnell – 14 April 2019

On May 2nd 2014, National China Offshore Oil Corporation dispatched the Hai Yang Shi You 981 oil platform to disputed waters off the southern edge

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