- “Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”
A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine on the pretext of „denazification“. A year after the outbreak of war, IRGAC member Alexander Tushkin from Russia spoke to Sergey Movchan, left-wing activist and participant in the Marker project which tracks far-right violence in Ukraine, about Ukrainian nationalism, the far right and antifascists in the Ukrainian army, and how the war has affected their position in society.
- Queer-feminist strategies and transnational solidarity against gender-based violence
There is a lot to learn from and find inspiration in the strategies, perspectives, and experiences of queer and feminist struggles which manage to influence and bring together diverse counter-hegemonic actors
- State and Society in Turkey after the Earthquakes: Initial Reflections
In this two-part essay, Ülker Sözen lay out her initial observations and reflections about the state and society’s responses in the aftermath of the massive disaster in Turkey
- Echoes of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi in Iran and Elsewhere
An interview with Nafis Fathollahzadeh and Ülker Sözen
- „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
- Making Russia Great Again?
How the Kremlin suppressed Russian nationalists, but ended up pursuing their greatest ambition
- 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
- Infringement of academic freedoms and counter-strategies | CAPS 22
When fragility also crosses us, when state violence knocks on our doors or when we academics are the people persecuted or exiled, everything takes on a different meaning in our lives and work
- Alternatives Democracies/ Alternatives to Democracy | CAPS22
We are witnessing a crisis of civilization accompanied by a global authoritarian turn. However, this crisis is often reduced to a purely political crisis, designated with the recurrent epithet of „crisis of democracy“
- Beyond authoritarianism: Counterstrategies and Way to Freedom | CAPS22
In this conversation, the panelists tackled questions on authoritarianism as experienced and struggled against in their respective contexts. Specifically, they talked about the counterstrategies they find significant to defend rights and how to respond to people’s anger, resentment and anxiety that has been capitalized by the far-right, that has engendered the different faces of authoritarianism we see in the world today