New Future

In a continuation of articles articulating Asian Anarchism, Liao critiques the foundation of East Asian family model and extrapolates those critiques to East Asian State society at large.

1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government.

~ by Stavros Stavrides ~ Many of those who initially supported Israel’s right to self-defense have to admit now that this is indeed a genocidal …

In the United States in the 1980s, there was a dramatic increase in homelessness, nearly doubling between 1984 and 1987. The hope and utopianism of the '60s was over - you didn't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blew, and it was towards the greed and inequality of ‘80s neoliberalism. Pre

When I think of popular struggle, the first thing that comes to mind is Abed’s stories from his time as a political prisoner during the First Intifada. Abed is from Tulkarem, a city in the north of Palestine known for its fierce resistance to the Zionist occupation. Like most Palestinian children, h

Have you ever been on the dole? What’s changed in the past thirty years in the ways unemployed, sick or disabled people go about claiming money from the state? Certainly, there’s been a material shift from analogue to digital; standing in dole queues with a flimsy newspaper-thin logbook, to online c

Recently, a friend commented how wonderful gender equality is in Britain. I thought of the 187 women and girls murdered here from March 2022 to March 2023. According to official records, that’s a low number. 214 femicides—murders of women and girls—were recorded the year prior. I thought of how 95%

~ by Silvia Federici ~ The cruelty of the war Israel has been conducting against the Palestinian people and now against the population of Lebanon …

A piece of historical fiction inspired by the record of a strike in Egypt in 1157BCE, under the reign of Ramses III.

Note from LeftEast editors: In recent years, the Serbian government has grown increasingly repressive, enacting measures aimed at stifling dissent and tightening control over citizens’ rights.

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times.

Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was originally published by Portal Novosti, on September 12, 2024. Translation by Sonja Dragović.

Note from LeftEast editors: This interview was originally published on Meduza. mk on September 27, 2024. The text has been lightly edited. After re-reading The Partisan Counter-Archives at the start of the summer, I concluded that Kirn’s critical insights on historical revisionism, nationalism in the post-Yugoslav space, historical ruptures, and politics of memory are acutely relevant.

After the US elections, we can turn Marx’s formula about history repeating itself around: the first time that Trump got elected, it was seen as. ..

Note from LeftEast editors: Between October and November of this year, four countries of the wider Black Sea region—Moldova and Georgia, Bulgaria and Romania—will have held elections with almost no left-wing alternatives on the ballot.

Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River.

Ecosocialists discuss strategy and tactics for a just transition Susan Price The Global Ecosocialist Network (GEN) and Marxmail. world co-hosted a “Roadmap to Ecosocialism” forum, on September 10, to discuss strategy and tactics needed to move [. ..]

Note from LeftEast editors: This article was originally published by dVERSIA on October 9, 2024, and is republished as part of a collaboration within ELMO – The Eastern European Left Media Outlet.

~by Massimo De Angelis ~ We have seen it for years around the issue of migrants.

Note from Lefteast editors: This article was originally published on Jacobin. In Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, billboards for fast-food chains and home-improvement stores have given way to politics. Slogans for parties vying for votes in Saturday’s parliamentary elections are everywhere.