Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has

On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the

Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using social media to drive change in

For centuries, the lands stretching from the Levant to the Persian Gulf have been subjected to a strange form of conceptual alchemy.  Driven by

Every few months America discovers another “monster.”A celebrity. A billionaire. A politician. A religious leader. A professor. A CEO. The details differ,

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Political scientists have a fairly dry checklist for what makes a regime oppressive: it silences dissent, it turns state power against its own people, it

In his address at the Pnyx in Athens on 7 October, Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Greece an extravagant compliment: a place at the beginning of

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We are living through a period when many people who care about justice and democracy are exhausted, frightened, or unsure what their actions can

For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their education. They want more

Let’s start with the good news. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has added 61 companies to its database of businesses involved in

This column is bound to be unconvincing because we are doomed (even by the language we use) to analyze the new through the lens of the old. The new will

There are very real reasons to be concerned about the future of our democracy and undoubtedly real stakes in the coming midterms. But after nearly a

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the gathering financial and political storm in France, expose the

Enormous protests in the Spanish state are calling for affordable housing and tenants’ rights — as a result, there will be new elections and a general

The results of the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, which sent ultra-conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party and

"Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom of those who think differently."Rosa Luxemburg How We Run the Party Today Reflects How We Will Run Society

The world did not lack knowledge of what was happening to Palestinians. It knew. It knew that a people had been living under occupation for decades; that

In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second

On September 15th, fifteen-year-old Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school in Gaza city with friends and stopped in a shop.  He heard a

Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from increasingly far away. Ports

Argentina holds one of the most contradictory political histories in Latin America. The birthplace of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, with a powerful tradition of

To the untrained eye, the 11th Ward along the southernmost border of Minneapolis is a sleepy corner of the city, tucked away from the raucousness in other

An electoral turnaround is possible, however difficult. But the illusion that the left can govern without a long-term project, without confronting the

Writer and organizer Chris Dixon has his fingers on the pulse of North American grassroots movement. Dixon has extensively and repeatedly traveled

Walking into a Starbucks means being greeted with the sounds of lively lobby conversation, milk being steamed, and baristas chatting with customers. As a

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 joins Clara Mattei to follow the money behind Israel's occupation

Today, the people who own the means of production decide how we respond to climate change. Will they insulate existing homes or build new villas? Produce

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After the collapse of state infrastructure and services amid war in Sudan, mutual aid networks stepped up to fill the gaps in health care, food and

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A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a

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For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy

This (quite long), article continued the sequence that excerpts from the seven author book Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. This time the

Climate activists engaged in nonviolent direct action are used to the rinse and repeat of arrest: handcuffs, short trip to jail, a misdemeanor charge

Since the 2016 combination of Donald Trump’s election and Bernie Sanders’s breakthrough campaign, efforts to synergize grassroots organizing with

How do we explain the rise and normalization of fascism in Germany and the United States? How important are the upcoming midterm elections? And what may

A crucial battle awaits us over the next three weeks. We are working across the country — from north to south — seeking votes and engaging in dialogue

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor film was

Since the beginning of 2026, the United States has maintained an oil blockade on Cuba. Through the capture of president Nicolas Maduro and the subsequent