Tag: Global South
Continuous Crisis in Lebanon
Over a year after the explosion in Beirut, Joseph Daher explains why Lebanon’s neoliberal sectarian parties are likely to maintain their hegemony.
Decolonization without National Sovereignty
Nandita Sharma responds to Neil Braganza’s review of her book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants
Afghan Women Betrayed
Twentyt years after 9/11, Deepa Kumar explores the image of the Muslim woman animating imperial feminism.
Marxism and Imperialism
Part II of a two-part dialogue between Critical China Scholars and Spectre
Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Marxist economist Michael Roberts about the deeper reasons for capitalism’s contemporary malaise, the shape and contradictions of the recovery, and debates between Marxists and Keynesians about the ability of government spending to restore growth and profitability to capitalism.
Trans Organizing in Times of Mass Struggle
Spectre Journal plans to publish in Issue Five a series of short essays that consider the involvement of trans organizers in recent cycles of struggle.
I Am Going to Die, But Algeria Will Be Independent
Jeffrey Webber reviews Joseph Andreas’ Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a French communist who joins the Algerian resistance.
Reflections on the Third Intifada
Salwa Ibrahim writes about the novelty of the third intifada currently taking shape in Palestine.
Friends in Palestine, Has the Future Arrived?
Palestinian activist G. N. Nithya writes of the horrors of the ever-continuous Nakba.