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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.

Kim is a poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University.

Note from LeftEast editors: This review is simultaneously published on Jacobin. Toward the Abyss is an important corrective to the predominantly ethnicity- and personality-centered analyses of Ukraine. Ishchenko advances a class analysis of both Putinism and Ukrainian society.

feels impossible to sit and write amidst the constant grief and urgency demanded in this ongoing genocide.

Note from LeftEast editors: An earlier version of this essay originally appeared in Romanian in the Queers for Palestine. Statements, essays and poems[Queerș pentru Palestina. Luări de poziție, eseuri și poeme] collected by the Pink Bloc/Blocul Roz in Romania and published at the Free Pages/Pagini Libere collective in December 2023.

We meet at the café of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, where, just an hour later, he is set to perform in the monodrama Who. ..

7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment.

By David Convery On 25 June 2023, Hugo Blanco, the renowned Peruvian activist, champion of indigenous struggles and pioneer of ecosocialism, died in Sweden. Blanco organised and fought throughout his life, with tactics ranging from strikes, land occupations, and armed struggle, based on the princip

is difficult to overstate the centrality of shipping to contemporary capitalism. Indeed, without shipping, it is difficult to imagine the birth of capitalism at all.

the question “how are we to live in an atomic age? ” the writer C. S. Lewis declared, in a 1948 essay, that we think “a great deal too much” about atomic annihilation.

“We aim to balance a Utopian vision of a radically different system with realistic steps to improve life”, state the LINKS candidates at the upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections. Note from LeftEast editors. This is a reprint of an interview which was originally published at Mašina.

Villeneuve's hit retelling of Herbert's Dune erases Islam and MENA cultures from the speculative future.

Piecing together the history of the Chinese American anarchist movement and its involvement in the revolutionary struggle for anarchy.

During the first half of the twentieth century, millions of American workers and farmers wanted to socialize banking. In a nation where socialist principles supposedly lacked appeal, grassroots support for public banks revealed the prevalence and popularity of economic ideas that intersected and overlapped with socialism. Banking politics also presents a potential source of working-class political mobilization today.

George Orwell’s ethics of equality deserve careful consideration from general readers and academic moral philosophers alike. A new book offers a spirited defense of Orwell as a philosophical outsider but fails to historicize his socialist egalitarianism.

Is the success of the electoral left in contemporary Mexico linked to the emergence of a new social pact? This article outlines the trajectory of the electoral left, parsing out its understanding of neoliberalism as a political economy of corruption and the budding features of actually existing post-neoliberalism in the country.

Embracing national belonging strategically and redefining it with inclusive, progressive values can boost consensus and counter the Right’s dominance. However, this approach is neither straightforward nor without risks, which must be carefully considered.

The recent elections in Mexico are a tremendous development in continental politics. The election of Claudia Sheinbaum as president represents not just a continuation of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s progressive agenda but the potential for lasting change in the country’s political economy.