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Articles

Anti‑War Coalition Ignores Putin’s War on Ukraine, by Fred Leplat and Liz Lawrence – 28 June 2026

Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established

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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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Statements

Manifesto of the Collective for Antifascist Struggle Against Racism and Antisemitism (CLARA) – 9 March 2026

We, anti-racist and antifascist activists of the left, come together within the Collective for Antifascist Struggle Against Racism and Antisemitism (CLARA). Our pluralistic and independent

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Articles

[UK] Green Motion That Turns ‘Zionism’ into a Judgement on Jews, by Dan Jacobs – 2 February 2026

From Socialists Against Antisemitism A Green Party [of England and Wales] conference motion, described as declaring “Zionism is racism” and rejecting both IHRA and JDA,

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Articles

Political Amnesia on Venezuela: Re-Writing the Bolivarian Revolution, by James Bloodworth – 8 January 2026

The following passage is from an article I wrote for the Independent back in 2012. According to the International Trade Union Confederation’s 2012 annual survey, “anti-union discrimination, violations

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Articles

How the British Left Dismisses Iran’s Uprising: The Campist Playbook, by Duncan Chapel – 8 January 2026

From Red Mole The message arrived in a left WhatsApp group on January 6th, 2026. A member asked if anyone had “a source for what’s

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Videos Webinars

Anna Hájková on Eastern Europe and the Blind Spots of the Global Left – 4 January 2026

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

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Interviews

Beyond Melancholic Geopolitics. Interview with Sinistra per l’Ucraina – 30 December 2025

A laboratory for a Left of resistance and solidarity against status-quo pacifism. The collective Sinistra per l’Ucraina (“Left for Ukraine”) was formed in Italy in

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Interviews

“Putin and Trump Have the Same Way of Talking About Europe”. Interview with Li Andersson – 10 December 2025

Mediapart: In June, speaking before Danish comrades, you made a case for the idea of an “antifascist” foreign policy. Where are the hotbeds of contemporary

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Articles

Political Maturity in an Age of Binaries, by Siyâvash Shahabi – 30 October 2025

How do “stupidity” and “vulgarity” turn into political action? This isn’t abstract. I still remember a moment in 2004, during a friendly football match between

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Articles

Nothing in Common, by Galina Rymbu – 27 October 2025

My name is Galina Rymbu. I am a poet, translator, feminist and anarchist of Moldovan-Romanian and Ukrainian origin. I was born and raised in Western Siberia, in the company town of Chkalovsky in the city of Omsk.

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Fight the Prejudices Which Feed the Horrors, by Will Roberts – 8 October 2025

The attack and murder at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Thursday 2 October (Yom Kippur) have brought antisemitism back to the

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Interviews

“In the Western European Left, There’s a Desire To Put up a Wall and Ignore What’s Happening in the East”. Interview with Denys Gorbach – 3 October 2025

Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book ‘The Making

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Articles

No, “Gender, Race, and Climate” Are Not “Middle-Class Preoccupations”, by an RMT member – 30 September 2025

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey has published a new article in Tribune, arguing that the disconnection between the working class and the organised left is partly down to

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Articles

The Anti-Militarism of Fools, by Nikita Ivansky – 2 September 2025

How Western Leftists and Anarchists Found ‘Convenient’ Voices From Eastern Europe Debates on anti-militarism continue to shake the anarchist movement in the western part of

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The Left and the Question of Defence, by Hanna Perekhoda – 24 August 2025

Slogans calling for the abolition of war no longer belong to the realm of politics. A serious discussion must start from the reality of threats

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Trans Joy, by Echo Fortune – 6 August 2025

In September 2019, 1,500 people assembled in London against the onslaught of anti-trans opinion and hate cults.  On July 26, 2025, that number rose above

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Why Gender Is at the Heart of the Far-Right Agenda – And Why We Must Take It Seriously, by Andrea Dip – 9 July 2025

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide

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What It Means to “Speak Out” about Atrocities, by Keith Kahn-Harris – 23 June 2025

From Prospect Often, my first reaction to news coming out of Israel and Palestine is a narcissistic one—making it all about me. When I hear

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Interviews

The Left’s Dangerous Illusion That Getting “Tough” on Migration Can Win Back Support. Interview with Lea Ypi – 18 June 2025

Il Manifesto: What do you think of the migrant detention centres built by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni government in Albania? Lea Ypi: I think it is

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Articles

The Meaning of ‘Genocide’, by Matthew Bolton – 5 June 2025

From K. The Magazine Since the attack on October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza, the word “genocide” has become a touchstone in public debate.

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Statements

Urgence Palestine, neither Dissolution nor Confusion, by ASAP – 22 May 2025

Foreword While we are opposed to the dissolution of Urgence Palestine, we also believe a real clarification is necessary. The procedure initiated by Retailleau [translator’s

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Lectures Webinars

The Concept of Confusionism: A Tool for Thinking About the Links Between the Crisis of the Left and the Success of the Far Right in France And… Elsewhere?, by Philippe Corcuff – 11 May 2025

Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. 1 – Introduction I would like to introduce the concept of confusionism, which I formulated for

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Articles

Victory Day: Three Interventions from the Left, by the Posle Editorial Collective – 7 May 2025

What do the lessons of WWII mean today? What stance should the international left take towards its legacy? And is it possible to resist the

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War, Inequality, Neoliberalism: The Challenges Facing the Ukrainian Left, by Francesca Barca – 11 March 2025

What does it mean to be left-wing and find yourself facing an invasion that you didn’t choose or want, that forces you to revise your

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Interviews

The Fight for Freedom in Ukraine Is Intimately Linked to the Global Struggle Against Fascist Forces. Interview with Hanna Perekhoda – 11 February 2025

In this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of

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Interviews

We Need to Articulate Our Struggles. Interview with Catarina Martins – 29 January 2025

Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a

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Overcoming the Rivalry Between Military Blocs in Europe, by Grigory Yudin and Ilya Budraitskis – 8 January 2025

What might a lasting peace look like from the leftist perspective? Upon what principles can a just European security architecture be established? In their report,

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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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“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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Statements

Support for the Palestinian People Must Not Tolerate Antisemitism or Reactionary Ideas – 2 June 2024

Open letter to the organizations converging within Urgence Palestine. We are left-wing activists, revolutionaries, anarchists, trade unionists, some of us Jewish. As we write these

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Interviews

National Furor. Interview with Peter Ullrich – 2 May 2024

Interview by Erik Peter for the German daily “Die Tageszeitung” (“taz“). The May 1st demonstration in Berlin was characterized by pro-Palestine slogans. Peter Ullrich talks

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Anthologies

An Anthology of Critical Assessments of Left Responses to 7 October – 16 February 2024

Introduction Fetishized Weakness: The Denial of Agency Within Palestinian Solidarity Movements by Keith Kahn-Harris Terror Versus Emancipation by Marcel Stoetzler Ambiguous Terms in Palestine Activism by Texas Kossovskii

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Book reviews

Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, by Simon Pirani – January 2024

In January 1918, two months after Soviet power was established in Petrograd, one of the Red Guard units tasked with securing that power on the

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Statements

Hamas-Israel War: Feminism Cannot Be Used to Relativize the Violence Suffered by Jews – 13 December 2023

Having worked for years on the fronts of feminism, anti-racism and the fight against discrimination based on colour, colonisation, gender identity or sexual orientation, we

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Articles

“The Roots of the Reactionary Bloc Lie in the Supposed ‘Democratic’ Camp”: Interview with the Slovak Collective Karmína – 18 October 2023

Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a

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Articles

“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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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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Articles

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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Articles

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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Videos

What Is Left Antisemitism, and How Can It Be Confronted? Talk by Daniel Randall – 28 October 2020

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,

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Antisemitism and the Left: Confronting an Invisible Racism, by Sina Arnold & Blair Taylor – 2019

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Racial Capitalism and the Campaign Against “Islamo-Gauchisme” in France, by Muriam Haleh Davis – 14 August 2018

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

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An Investigation into Red-Brown Alliances: Third Positionism, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and the Western Left, by Vagabond – 15 January 2018

This long post started as an investigation about the Left and Syria which I started after I read the Sol Process blog’s publication of three

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