Left Renewal Blog

Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants

A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the International Trade Union Confederation, Building and Wood Workers’ International, the Education International, the International Federation of Journalists and

From Daraj Khawla Bou Kareem examines how women who oppose Kais Saied in Tunisia face not only prison, prosecution and exile, but also a second,

From The Forge Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults were horrific. Sexism in organizing persists and requires the attention of leaders. I’ll present stories and analysis of

From Himal Southasian The first Nepali film to win at Cannes, Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog is a reminder of the gap between

From +972 Magazine Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible. 

In Nigeria’s Ibeju-Lekki area, dispossession driven by the Chinese-funded Lekki Free Zone (LFZ) and the larger Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) produces gendered outcomes. Drawing

Can Koçak is the Britain representative of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi), a socialist party with three sitting MPs. A fourth, Can

What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine? Has it changed our understanding of the way that imperialism works? Tell us we

The Caste Pod is a podcast hosted by Ajantha Subramanian, historical anthropologist whose work addresses the historicity and political economy of caste. Ajantha is Professor

More than 15,000 teenagers answered a call from Nima Tekido, an entertainment producer and YouTube personality, to attend an event at Iran Mall in Tehran

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a

On 20 August 2026 the Guardian published an open letter to political prisoners in Iran under the title “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two

We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand

For the last quarter century, discussion of militarization in Mexico has centered around the missions assigned to the armed forces by the president. Over time,

Vimba! We, the People was formed in response to growing anti-rights and anti-democratic efforts to advance fundamentalist, far-right, and reductive values and legislation in South

Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah (1774-1844) and Khatijah Sidek (1918-1982) exercised political authority across a Malay world divided by colonialism. Their lives show how such figures

From Kalam Weekly It is 5 am on August 26 — just before dawn. My friends and I load our rucksacks into the trunk of

The Serbian general and war criminal Ratko Mladić, the butcher of Srebrenica and too many other places to mention, died last week. It’s an opportunity

As Russia escalates its attacks, Ukraine’s resistance holds, and peace negotiations are at an impasse, the people of Ukraine need international solidarity from anti-war people