Tag: Global South
Looting, Dispossessing, Incarcerating
How is the ecological fallout from the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil related to the struggle against prisons?
“Bolsonarismo” after Bolsonaro
Sean Purdy explains how a network of far-right elements may seek to continue promoting a “Bolsonarist” agenda in Brazil, even after his loss to Lula da Silva in Brazil’s recent Presidential election, and how the left must learn from its legacy of antifascist struggle in order to truly defeat them.
Inside Sisi’s Prisons: Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Fight for Freedom
Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Sharif Kouddous about Egyptian political prisoner and hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
First and Third World Ecosocialisms
David Camfield argues that neither Matt Huber’s First World ecosocialism nor Kai Heron’s Third World ecosocialism are sufficient political responses to the ecological crisis of global capitalism.
Life That Resists Death
A leftist activist in Iran explains the conditions that led to the latest uprising spreading across the country.
On Collective Grieving
Loubna Qutami writes of the Zionist assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, whose represented hope in the face of settler colonial fragmentation.
The Future of the Resistance Committees in Sudan
Three Sudanese leftists reflect on the state of the Resistance Committees that formed in the 2018 revolution.
“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”
How should we understand the election of Boric in relation to the social explosions of October? Jeffrey R. Webber makes sense of the Chilean scene.
Counterrevolution in Sudan
How should we understand October’s military coup in Sudan? And what is left of the resistance in the wake of the 2018-19 movement?