- Cuba: Hated by Imperialism, Loved by Humanity
- Iranian Feminism
- South Africa: Facing Shifting Political Terrain
- Leaping Linke
- Palestinians Resist Weaponized Development
- AI: Non-Imperialist Takes
- Argentinians Defy Milei’s “Land Reform”
- Students Rally Against Racism in Oz
- Indian Communism: A History of Organizing
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Cuba: Hated by Imperialism, Loved by Humanity
Fidel at 100 Silvana Solano - LVM / teleSUR (Caracas)
Defend Cuba Now Helen Yaffe / Cuba Analysis
What’s in Store Marcel Kunzmann / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
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Firoozeh Farvardin, Carmín Rios Fukelman and Miranda Hochman / International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (Potsdam)
The war in Iran has strengthened the Islamic Republic, given new momentum to monarchist right-wing forces in the diaspora, and narrowed the space for an autonomous feminist politics. Feminism is now figuring out its purpose in a context marked by internal repression, war, and struggles over who speaks for the Iranian opposition.
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South Africa: Facing Shifting Political Terrain
Richard Pithouse / Zabalaza for Socialism (Johannesburg)
An ongoing and rapid reconfiguration is restructuring the foundations of political life, displacing democratic rules, norms and aspirations and filling the vacuum left by the collapse in social hope with organised cruelty. The answer to the far right is never to move further to the right or to try and hold the centre. It is always the left.
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Ruairi Casey / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Die Linke recently doubled its membership to 126,000: there were more women, young people, and those with a family history of migration at this year’s party conference; more West Germans, and more wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. Democratic socialism is an increasingly appealing alternative to the mainstream consensus of austerity, militarization and xenophobia.
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Palestinians Resist Weaponized Development
Saleh Abbas / Mondoweiss (New York)
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AI: Non-Imperialist Takes
Should Socialists Be AI Luddites? Owen McCormack / Rebel (Dublin)
Indigenous Perspectives Brian Obara and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim / Dialogue Earth (London)
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Argentinians Defy Milei’s “Land Reform”
Teresa Bo / Al Jazeera (Doha)
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets outside Argentina’s Congress in Buenos Aires to oppose a controversial property reform bill backed by President Javier Milei’s government. The bill aims to strengthen private property rights, speed up evictions and make it easier to develop land affected by wildfires.
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Students Rally Against Racism in Oz
ABC News (Sydney)
Students in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have left school to protest against the anti-migrant party One Nation and and its leader Pauline Hanson. The rallies, organised by the National Union of Students, attracted hundreds of protesters in each city, carrying banners, signs and even effigies of Hanson.
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Indian Communism: A History of Organizing
Rashi Agrawal / The Wire (New Delhi)
The Communist Party of India did not emerge through a single founding moment but through a gradual process shaped by international revolutionary networks, colonial repression, and the slow work of institutional consolidation.
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Kōhei Saitō / Literary Hub (New York)
It’s impossible to raise productive forces any more under capitalism without completely destroying the planetary environment. We’ve reached the point at which capitalism itself has become the “fetters” on society’s development.
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