A look back at the history of East Turkestan and the geopolitics of Central Asia
Daniel Tanuro, 30 May 2021 The Uighur question has suddenly become a stake in the political struggle in Belgium, between the PS and even more ECOLO, on the one hand,…
Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany
Quinn Slobodian and William Callison, Summer 2019 Aufstehen’s leaders insisted that their movement was not defined by its opposition to migrants. But they consistently cast migrants as either pawns in the game…
EU: ‘More than a job’: the food delivery co-ops putting fairness into the gig economy
Sophie Atkinson, 11 May 2021 Across Europe, worker-led delivery collectives are springing up to reclaim control from corporate platforms Cristina González did a lot of waiting in 2018. Back then, the…
Pakistan: Blasphemy Wars
Ammar Ali Jan, 11 May 2021 Last month, Pakistan witnessed some of the most violent clashes between protestors and security forces in the country’s recent history, which left 6 police…
Breathless India
Aditya Bahl, 27 May 2021 In just the past month, India has officially recorded around 10 million Covid-positive cases and 100,000 Covid-related deaths. As the second wave of the pandemic…
South Africa: Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens
Wilmien Wicomb, May 24, 2021 In a remarkable display of legal gymnastics, parliament’s constitutional and legal services office has suggested that there is no problem with highly contested changes to…
Mali at an Impasse?
Chéibane Coulibaly, 05/17/2021 The country desperately lacks a social consensus regarding its future The current situation in Mali is characterized by a certain degree of confusion. In June 2020, the Mouvement…
Mustafa Barghouti: Palestine Will Be Free
An interview with MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI. Interview by Leena Dallasheh, May 25, 2021 Palestinian leader Mustafa Barghouti talks to Jacobin about why the mass demonstrations of recent weeks are just the beginning of…
What’s Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism
By Wen Stephenson, Andreas Malm, May 25, 2021 A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Andreas Malm, a historian and…
State, power and society in Latin America: an interview with Raúl Zibechi
Raúl Zibechi, George Ygarza, May 21, 2021 From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo: militant journalist Raúl Zibechi reflects on the state of Latin America…
Sri Lanka: Key Demands To Address The Covid-19 Crisis In The Free Trade Zones: An Open Letter To The GoSL, Factory Owners & Buyers
Collective, May 15, 2021 Key Demands to address the COVID-19 crisis in the Free Trade Zones To the GoSL & Factory Owners/Employers; Prioritize ALL workers in the FTZ and apparel…
Will Zagreb be Ours? The prospects for a left-green alternative in Croatia’s capital and beyond
Paul Stubbs, April 23, 2021 With local elections due to be held in Croatia on 16 May 2021, a left-green political platform Zagreb je Naš (Zagreb is Ours – henceforth ZjN) stands on…
The women’s revolution: what the coup means for gender equality in Myanmar
Laura Villadiego, 7 May 2021 A few weeks ago, a strange sight began appearing in the streets of Myanmar (Burma). Women have been hanging their traditional htamein – the pieces of cloth…
“A Radical Demonstration of ‘America First’”
Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow, Interview with Adam Tooze, May 4, 2021 A year into a crisis of world-historic proportions, and what have we learned? After flubbing every aspect of…
Fascism’s Global Spread Is as Real as the Pandemic’s
In the world’s largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target the vulnerable are on the rise. By Walden Bello | May 5, 2021 – Published on…