Britain has recently gained notoriety as a global hotspot for anti-trans politics and ‘gender critical’ feminism. But what is the relationship between British ‘gender critical’
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A contribution to left renewal and transformation We have been watching the civilian death toll in Gaza mount, in horror, day by day, for weeks
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
I don’t believe that ‘death to the Jews’ is a cry against poverty and oppression The word ‘context’ was quickly smuggled into conversations that took
Regarding Debates over Recent Events in Our Region: We, Israel-based academics, thought leaders and progressive activists committed to peace, equality, justice, and human rights, are
The appalling reaction of some progressives to the massacre of innocents has been decades in the making ‘He who hates himself must be feared, because
This article takes the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as a case study that manifests the schism between the realities of those in revolutionary struggle and
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
Russian imperialism brings fascism and genocide, disguised in the language of anti-fascism, to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Central European anti-fascists were among the first
Those who don’t stand in solidarity with the oppressed cannot call themselves leftists. With Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine from three directions, Russian President Vladimir
The Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee has issued a statement on Ukraine that fails to adhere to basic socialist principles. As socialists, we have
From New Lines Magazine As Latin American dictators marginalize and jail protesters, the leaders rely on backing from prominent but obtuse individuals and organizations What
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.
There is a robust discussion inside the Left about antisemitism in its own ranks. This is not just related to Zionism, Israel, and Palestine, but
The publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report, as well as the ongoing fallout from the Panorama documentary and subsequent legal wranglings,
A “Letter Against US Imperialism” has been circulating in leftist circles. It views the protests in Iran in a reductionist manner and unequivocally rejects them.
From Jadaliyya Over the last few decades a new term has emerged in France to indicate a form of dangerous leftist politics: (roughly–and awkwardly–translated as
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