Over the past year, South Africa has experienced a wave of xenophobic attacks on migrants. Mosa Phadi and Rehad Desai spoke with Joseph Choonara about the current situation, its roots in the period of the African National Congress’s (ANC) rule… Continue Reading
As monsoon rains broke over India in the summer of 2026, an unexpected storm hit the far-right government of Narendra Modi.1 Students and young people protesting against fraud in higher education and the general lack of graduate jobs raged against… Continue Reading
Argentina embodies political polarisation. On the one hand, it has a far-right president, Javier Milei, committed to slashing social spending and imposing reactionary and authoritarian policies on the country. On the other hand, it is home to what is probably… Continue Reading
In this interview with Rob Ferguson, Ukrainian researcher and writer Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses the issues raised in his book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and other publications. Volodymyr is a well-known speaker on Ukraine in international academic… Continue Reading
Turkish politics have been in turmoil recently. Earlier this year, there were mass street protests against the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Then came the announcement that the country’s main Kurdish militant group would lay down its arms. Şenol Karakaş from… Continue Reading
On 3 December 2024, South Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted an “auto-coup”, declaring martial law in a live televised address. He claimed that shadowy forces were acting against the state, attempting to impeach members of his cabinet and… Continue Reading
Eddie Prevost was a leading worker militant in the London docks from 1960 to 1989. This was a time of intense class struggle in Britain—and Eddie played a key role. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the… Continue Reading
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, a major class confrontation between the government of Margaret Thatcher and a trade union that had helped bring down the previous Conservative administration in the early… Continue Reading
During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the International Socialists (IS), later the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), produced a number of publications with the purpose of politically organising different communities in Britain.1 These publications were either printed in the English… Continue Reading
Hamza Hamouchene is an Algerian scholar and activist who is based in London. He spoke to Oisín Challen Flynn about a collection of essays, Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto, 2023), which he co-edited… Continue Reading