In PerspectiveSince 2008, South Africa has witnessed repeated waves of xenophobic violence. In 2026, the citizen-led movement March and March intensified anti-migrant protests. Kennedy Manduna traces this crisis to deeper forces: sub-imperial blowback, far-right scapegoating, and the failure of African governments to address the root causes of migration.
In PerspectiveThis paper attempts to decipher and make sense of renewed and seemingly strengthened Africa-Russia relations at a time when the world’s geopolitics, geoeconomics, and geostrategic imperatives are undergoing unprecedented tectonic and structural ruptures, shifts, and breaks
By Kennedy Manduna and Alexander Tushkin
InterviewBansree AS is a rationalist and content creator whose YouTube channel aims to make non hegemonic intellectual discourses accessible to the general public. In this interview he discusses how digital platforms owned by big technology companies accentuate the visibility of certain narratives while casting other voices to obscurity, reflects on anti-caste politics and the difficulty to build a space for non hegemonic ideas within the public sphere.
Theory & ResearchCounterstrategies need not merely emotionalize protest but to also revolutionize emotions. They need to dig deep into everyday ethics, their presence in common sense, and modes of normative evaluation. This is what happened during the Indian farmers' protests. Three years after they erupted, Ajay Gudavarthy takes a look at the successful mobilization that managed to make a dent in India's authoritarian regime
In PerspectiveSince
late 2024, events in Serbia have been unfolding at breakneck speed. Each new protest action and the
government’s reaction have revealed another layer
of corruption at the heart of the government, while the movement's strength has been growing. Since mid-August, the Vučić government is increasingly relying on brute force
against unarmed protesters. What has happened so far? What comes next?
In PerspectiveIn February 2025 the LGTBIQ+ movement organized a massive demonstration in Argentina, against the libertarian government, the president’s homophobic remarks at Davos and his permanent hate speech. It was the first Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, LGBTIQ+ demonstration and it was huge because it managed to mobilize sectors that had rarely mobilized in protest against Milei. In this article we want to analyse what happened that this particular event was able to articulate so many different groups. But also, we propose an explanation for why that movement weakened, giving way to a small demonstration one year later, and how we might regain strength again.
In PerspectiveThe rise of right-wing discourses in Latin America presents itself as a promise of change, appealing to meritocracy, pragmatism, and economic recovery. Yet behind this language of renewal lies a familiar political logic. In a context of crisis, uncertainty, and generational weariness, these narratives recycle conservative and authoritarian measures while positioning themselves as “real solutions,” gaining particular traction among young people who navigate vulnerability, disillusionment, and the search for stability.
In PerspectiveThe U.S. military intervention in Venezuela signals a renewed phase of imperial escalation in what is understood as the Western Hemisphere. Framed through the so-called “Donroe Doctrine,” it reveals the convergence of geopolitical domination, extractivist interests, and the authoritarian restructuring of U.S. power into a project of imperial fascism.
By Pablo Uc
In Perspective
In
a time when authoritarianism is globalized, leftist victories
also have a spillover effect that inspires counter-strategies in
different geographies. In this article, Özge Yaka draws some lessons from the Mamdani campaign and points to challenges for socialists around the globe.
By Özge Yaka
Theory & ResearchRabies is a virus produced in mammals, transmitted by salivary contact, but in Spanish the word rabia is often used to connote anger, irritation, hatred, ill will, and desire for revenge. This rage often leads to negative practices such as the annihilation of others. However, it is also true that on other occasions it can generate positive practices such as the fight for dignity and life
Theory & ResearchMexico has, up to date, 115,062 people reported as being disappeared. The problem is evident but raises many questions. Who counts as disappeared? How do we count disappearance? Who counts as “disappeared” and who not? Is every absence a disappearance? How valid is it to invoke disappearance in the case of absences? What do we understand when we hear that “people can disappear”?
InterviewNearly four years after the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini triggered one of the largest uprisings in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the political landscape has changed dramatically. State repression dismantled activist networks, imprisoned militants, and forced many activists into exile, while the military offensive carried out by Israel and the United States reshaped the political terrain. In this interview, Firoozeh Farvardin reflects on the place of feminism in a context marked by internal repression, war, and struggles over who speaks for the Iranian opposition.
InterviewIran is going through dramatic times and tectonic shifts. In this interview, Nader Talebi reflects on the Islamic regime and its tensions between a neoliberal state project and a messianic Shia imaginary, and on the waves of uprisings against a regime that enforces gender apartheid and destroys the means of reproduction of life. Against this, Talebi insists on what connects the mobilizations of the last years — a politics of life, cross-ethnic solidarity, and a revolutionary tendency that makes any dictatorship hard to sustain.
Şebnem Oğuz examines late fascism as a contemporary mode of crisis management, distinct not only from neoliberal authoritarianism and right-wing populism but also from classical fascism. How does capitalist crisis reorganize the state around war, racialized violence, and coercive accumulation? And what does this mean for anti-fascist struggle in Turkey?
By Melehat Kutun and Ali Yalçın Göymen
Theory & ResearchVideo games are often dismissed as entertainment, yet they have become a crucial arena where politics, technology, and the far right intersect. From GamerGate and Steve Bannon’s mobilisation of gaming communities to the gamification of online politics, game cultures have profoundly shaped today’s social media dynamics and reactionary movements. Enrico De Angelis explores in this article why games deserve far more attention and political and cultural significance, not only as the world’s largest entertainment industry.
InterviewIn their book "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World", political theorists Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra offer a sweeping analysis of contemporary capitalism's shifting political geographies. As war and militarisation proliferate — from Ukraine to Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and Venezuela — their framework offers a rare and timely lens for understanding the entanglement of capital, geopolitics, and violence.
In PerspectiveThe explosive growth of social media self-help culture promises quick solutions to intimate crises, from restoring “feminine energy” to reclaiming “masculine power.” Yet beneath its language of empowerment lies a deeper political logic. As neoliberal societies produce a growing “care deficit,” self-help influencers transform insecurity into a market while promoting survivalist individualism, gender essentialism, and authoritarian fantasies of control that increasingly echo the moral agendas of contemporary far-right politics.
By Ülker Sözen
