- Arundati Roy on the Cockroach Upsurge
- Climate Care: Real Existing Degrowth
- Anton Jäger on Hyperpolitics
- Two by Sushovan Dhar
- Walden Bello Reflects
- 21st Century Feminism
- Organizing Today
- Anti-Imperialism Then and Now
- Pride and Prejudice
- Dora María Téllez on Nicaragua Today
Arundati Roy on the Cockroach Upsurge
The Wire (New Delhi)
[Moderator’s note: The Cockroach Janta Party student protesters successfully ousted India's education minister on July 25. Details here.]
Despite the quick and almost clandestine appointment of a new police chief days before the march, and despite worried whispers about the terrifying proficiency of our terrifying Union home minister, both the police and the home ministry completely miscalculated the scale of the tsunami that engulfed Delhi on July 20.
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Climate Care: Real Existing Degrowth
Grace Wright-Arora / Red Pepper (London)
Real Existing Degrowth (RED) is an emerging scholarly idea. In many ways, it’s the 2020’s climate politics version of previous efforts to locate radical alternative economies in daily life, such as actually existing socialism and everyday communism. Rather than asking whether degrowth is possible in the future, RED asks to what extent elements of it already exist today.
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New Left Review (London)
The rise of new online forms of popular political culture in the West in the 2010s suggested the term ‘hyperpolitics’ to describe their lopsided intensity, after the ‘post-political’ 1990s. Might the concept of hyperpolitics also help to detect and explain patterns of behaviour among the ruling classes—not just in the US, but in Europe as well?
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Two by Sushovan Dhar
Who Inherits the Uprising? / Alternative Viewpoint
Porto Alegre and the Rebirth of Internationalism / Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (Liège)
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Mat Callahan / Socialism and Democracy (Somerville MA)
“(Many) of these current protests are more spontaneous, if we might put it that way. In contrast to the protests in the 60s, which were greatly influenced by progressive ideologies, particularly Marxism, whether it was what we used to call the Old left or the New left.... I would say, though, that a lot of the motivations for Generation Z are shared by our generation.”
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Justa Montero / International Viewpoint (Paris)
Collective subjects are leading the conversation about feminist strategy, driven by the desire to avoid hierarchising oppressions, struggles, or demands, and instead work towards spaces of real, not rhetorical, convergence among diverse and heterogeneous groups. It’s an ongoing challenge, not without its tensions and difficulties, but something profoundly transformative.
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Paul Murphy / Rupture (Dublin)
Irish capitalism is heading into troubled waters. While the political pendulum globally has swung rightwards in recent years, we have seen the emergence of powerful leftward countercurrents that provide a fertile environment for the building of the socialist left. The last year has proven that with the correct political choices, we can have a significant impact.
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Anti-Imperialism Then and Now
The Comintern’s League Against Imperialism (1927-1937) Disha Karnad Jani / Journal of Global History (Cambridge UK)
With Gaza and Ukraine Andriy Movchan and Giulia Pilia / Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (Trento, Italy)
US Imperialism Resurgent Costas Lapavitsas / Monthly Review (New York)
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CIVICUS Lens (Johannesburg)
For a movement that spent decades measuring its progress in newly recognised rights, the 2026 Pride season is telling a harder story. In country after country, backlash is clawing back ground previously gained. Governments are criminalising LGBTQI+ identities and relationships, long-established marches are being banned and companies that once backed Pride are quietly pulling out.
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Dora María Téllez on Nicaragua Today
Linda Farthing / NACLA (New York)
“The Sandinista Front was a great party, but an authoritarian one,” Téllez explains. “These two elements shape what we are suffering with today. After all, we went from a military structure and vanguardist political orientation to running a government overnight, and the party never really developed an independent participatory structure.”
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