At least 18 people were injured, including a journalist The Peruvian capital has experienced another weekend of mobilisations, in a second wave of protests called
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From Pirate Wire Services National protests kicked off Monday and have spread to the capital as indigenous federation CONAIE calls for a national strike As
In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with the burning of the
From Pirate Wire Services Youth in Peru take a page from Nepalese rebellion as the pirate flag from “One Piece” flies in pitched street battles
From Dissent Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on
Solidarity with Standing Together: A Response to Calls for a Boycott, by UK FoST – 17 September 2025
UK Friends of Standing Together responds to renewed calls from some in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to boycott and no-platform Standing Together
All eyes have been on Nepal since last week when a large but loosely organised protest by young people in Kathmandu turned into a revolution
For the past few days, the fire of popular protests in Iran has flared up again, and in many cities we’re seeing gatherings by different
Gen Z Protests Against Social Media Ban and Elite Corruption Become Mass Uprising Against State Violence Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Kathmandu after protests
From Himal Southasian After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, Nepal searches for a new
Young people are protesting over systemic corruption and a system that rewards ‘nepo kids’ over meritocracy Youth-led demonstrations against corruption erupted throughout Nepal on Monday,
In late August, demonstrations against housing allowances for national parliamentarians escalated dramatically when a motorcycle delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan, caught up in the protests, was
August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a subculture of street protest that echoes the anti-Suharto activism of the 1990s. In opposing the new form
Most Israelis want the war to end. Several hundred thousand people took to the streets in Tel Aviv last night to demand a hostage deal
Taiwan is a flashpoint for US-China rivalry, so radicals internationally need to be able to see through the misleading views about Taiwan spread by both
Uri Weltmann, Standing Together’s national field organiser, writes to supporters with an update on the movement’s latest activity. In the last few days, news about
Manfred Elfstrom is a political scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia, whose research focuses on labour protests in China, the state’s authoritarian
Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an, or Standing Together, is a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel that organises against racism and occupation, and for equality and social justice.
The 1970s marked a turning point in the history of the peasantry of the Sahel, the arid and semi-arid band immediately south of the Sahara
From New Humanist Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides Many of us are
From +972 Magazine While some have accused the Oscar-winning film of normalization, leaders and activists in Masafer Yatta are unwavering in their support for joint
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
This contribution addresses the strategic significance of family politics for the Islamic Republic of Iran, facing multifaceted crises. It identifies Iran’s recent family and gender
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
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 Arab Reform Initiative Drawing on focus groups with activists, Karim Safieddine examines the strategic choices of Lebanon’s nonsectarian opposition since 2011, from the You
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
Civil society organizations from the Himalaya request your support to save the Himalayas! Prompted by the increasing frequency, scale, and intensity of climate disasters such as
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
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,
In her research, Shadi Mokhtari lays out three Middle Eastern experiences of human rights – as mockery of morality, manifesting morality, and moral maze. Human
Gita Ramaswamy, Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary (New Delhi: Navayana Publishing, 2022), 432 pp. Ammel Sharon is Assistant Professor of
From The Diplomat Myanmar has been ruled by a military junta for most of the years since it emerged independent from British colonial rule in
The killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in Iran a year ago ignited massive protests by Iranians against the Islamic regime. But civil unrest has been
Uri Weltmann is the national field organiser for Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an (Standing Together), and a member of its national leadership. Standing Together is a Jewish-Arab
Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization (London: Verso, 2021), 282 pp. Just over ten years ago, the Tunisian Revolution of
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.
From post: notes on art in a global context In this interview, Belarusian curators Aleksei Borisionok and Anna Chistoserdova discuss the recent political upheavals in Belarus
Bruce S. Hall is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. This article first appeared in Antropologia Vol. 7 No.