Left Renewal Blog

Faced with the war imposed on Ukraine and with the extreme repressive and colonial violence the Russian state is deploying on many other fronts, the

China has stepped up efforts to intimidate Taiwan ahead of elections in November. This has occurred with the usual combination of domestic threats and military

“Torture and suffering take many forms. The stories in this book will help you understand that.” – Michael Kovrig Safeguard Defenders is pleased to announce

From Czech neo-Nazi organizer Filip Vávra to fragile identitarian activists and elected politicians, Europe’s far right is building a transnational movement around tired white supremacist

The victory of the Student List in Serbia’s parliamentary elections on October 25, 2026, brings to an end fourteen years of dominance by Aleksandar Vučić

From +972 Magazine The Joint List and Ra’am could prove decisive in Israel’s election. But they offer very different answers on how far to bend

From SUMAÚMA Bills ending remote embargoes on deforested areas and allowing the Agriculture Ministry to interfere in environmental oversight are headed toward passage, in a

The ‘In Bed with the Right’ podcast, hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan, examines right-wing ideas about sex and gender.  On October 25, 2026 Luiz

From New Lines Magazine The would-be democrats of Serbia’s Student List find themselves in a complex situation: Their aspirations to remake the country’s political order

Growing up in 1990s China, Yangyang Cheng encountered two contradictory narratives about what it meant to be a worker. In older periodicals and occasionally in

Serbia’s student-led political movement has secured a historic election victory. Preliminary results suggest the so-called Student List has won 141 of the 250 seats in

As protests spread across Europe, Albania’s proposed crackdown shows how far a government may go to make political dissent personally costly. This is a story

More information about this series of discussions here. Introduction DM: All right, I’ll try to give a very brief intro. My understanding of these four

Kavita Krishnan is a writer, activist and feminist who has been involved in India’s Left politics, feminist movements and democratic-rights movements for several decades. In

From Kulna Why can’t Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest military spenders, stop the Houthis? The answer isn’t just weapons. It’s the bargain the

They took over streets and highways, podiums and pedestals, marching into the night to smash the patriarchy. The anger found its voice in rousing and

From Noema What comes after the dissolution of the liberal world order. Sudan has often served as a mirror for judging the health of the liberal

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has forged a global reputation as a leader of the left. He’s also fighting for his political life after a

Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. In October 2022, just before the

From New Lines Magazine As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets