Left Renewal Blog

On ‘In Bed With the Right‘ hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about

This article revisits the debate on the relationship between capitalism and abolition from the perspective of South Asia. It argues that bringing the antislavery debate

Putinism is not an invention of the arms industry. European militarisation is not simply a neutral response to Russia. Any materialist account worth having has

From New Lines Magazine How the Houthis seized the country’s western coastline and reached for Bab al-Mandab There are moments in Yemen’s long war when

Paraguay often doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of South America, but that’s been changing in recent years — especially for members of the

Maksym Kazakov: Hello, John! You are a very well-known historian in Ukraine, and every work or article you publish sparks lively discussion. People have very

On 13 September, Sweden held national, regional and local elections. A centre-left red-green alliance led by the Social Democrats and their leader, Magdalena Andersson, won

From the airplane window, the land appeared almost uniformly yellow, stretched flat and uninterrupted beneath the wing. It was not the yellow of sunlight, but

Two Uprisings and Their Internal Connection Iran Draft: In an interview marking the first anniversary of the Jina movement, or the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement,

Last week, thousands of Serbs turned out for the funeral of Ratko Mladić. Mladić commanded the forces of Republika Srpska, the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic,

The Malaysia National Organising Committee of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum is deeply alarmed by the growing regression of the rights, safety, dignity,

Leading Turkish LGBTQ activist Yildiz Tar explains why Turkey’s authoritarian government is escalating repression of their community. The crackdown has less to do with public

In Jharkhand, bureaucratic exclusion is often sustained by a pervasive attitude of indifference towards Adivasis. These biases make the SIR [Special Intensive Revision, the Election

From Sana’a Center Perspectives and Analysis Fighting in western Taiz and southern Hudaydah rapidly escalated last week, resulting in the collapse of government lines and

From Liberties The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15, 2026, one chapter in a long series that has spanned decades. This

“A serious internationalism…must oppose imperial domination without excusing local tyranny. It must learn to confront multiple forms of power at once.”“Any attempt to understand Iran’s

More information about this series of discussions here. Introduction (BG) It’s September 2026, and this is the first of four sessions in a series of

Zionism, as a cultural and political movement of Hebrew revival, sought to forge a connection between the modern Jewish people and a deep past located

Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026), 240 pp. Russian imperialism is a subject that

A cat pulled from the rubble after a twelve-hour rescue operation, a dog and its owner trapped together under concrete slabs after a Russian missile