Echoes of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran and Elsewhere

An interview with Nafis Fathollahzadeh and Ülker Sözen

Börries Nehe

Börries Nehe holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a specialization in Sociology. He is currently the academic coordinator of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism & Counter-Strategies

„Brazil is experiencing a fascist uprising“ Interview with Vladimir Safatle

On January 8, more than 4,000 supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invaded, looted, and vandalized public buildings, in what the professor Vladimir Safatle claims to be a „fascist insurrection“ with the support and collaboration of the military police

Andrea Dip

Making Russia Great Again?

How the Kremlin suppressed Russian nationalists, but ended up pursuing their greatest ambition

IRGAC

Labour policies and worker’s struggles in authoritarian contexts @CAPS22

Even as neoliberal discourse promotes competition amongst the working people, workers as a class continue to find ways to cooperate to build a better future

Mariano Féliz

Mariano Féliz is a social activist in Argentina. Currently, he mostly works on political education with and within social organizations, and is active in union struggles within the University and Research Center where he is employed. He is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and researcher at the CIG-IDIHCS of the CONICET/UNLP. There, he teaches political economy and conducts research on the transformations of dependent capitalism and its relationship to social struggles. He is mostly concerned about recovering the tradition of Marxian Dependency Theory, showing how it can be articulated with current debates within feminist economics and Marxist ecological debates.

BOOK | Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives and Contestations from the South is out!

This collective book brings together 15 global perspectives from the South on authoritarian transformations and internationalist counter-strategies

IRGAC

Dossier | The Potential of Anti-Capitalist Narratives

How myths and narratives can be used to simultaneously address differing concerns and needs of diverse groups and how they can help overcome fragmentation to accelerate the urgent social and ecological transformation of society?

IRGAC

Dossier | The 2022 Philippine President Elections are Over: When Will the Fake News Stop?

Straight from the tyrants’ playbook, the Marcos family destroyed the fragile information ecosystem and democracy in the Philippines by presenting alternative truths. Their family legitimized the distortion of facts for self-serving purposes

IRGAC

Possibilities for Creating Thinking Spaces to Resist Right-Wing Digital Circulations

An exploration about the ways in which right-wing digital circulations can be challenged by creating thinking spaces within communities through the use of arts-based research

Fathima Nizaruddin

Fathima Nizaruddin is an academic and documentary filmmaker. Her last film, Nuclear Hallucinations (2016),whichemerged out of her practice-based PhD at the University of Westminster, has been screened at various festivals and academic spaces across the world.

Will Lula Get a Second Chance?

Brazil’s presidential election will decide whether the country continues down the path of reaction or joins the new Pink Tide

Sabrina Fernandes

Sabrina Fernandes is a Brazilian eco-socialist organizer and communicator with a sociology PhD from Carleton University, Canada. She is the person behind Marxist YouTube Channel, Tese Onze, and is coordinating the launch of Jacobin Brasil.

Inaugural Conference: The Crisis of Civilization and the Authoritarian Turn | CAPS22

Why do new forms of authoritarianism emerge so suddenly and simultaneously all around the world? Watch the vídeo of #CAPS22’s Inaugural Conference with Zeynep Gambetti, Alex Demirović, Hugo Fanton and moderation by Börries Nehe. Article by Aurel Eschmann