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A Conversation on NAZA

Modern Times Review29 September 2026

Truls Lie and Sonya Vseliubska discuss the Venice-winning documentary exposing Israel’s AI-driven system of mass killing in Gaza. In Israeli intelligence usage, «nezek agavi» names the civilian death an air strike is expected to produce before it is ordered. Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor took the abbreviation for their title and spent three years assembling […]

Argentina: Mass demonstrations across the country

G20 From Below21 September 2026

A protest march in Plaza de Mayo: tens of thousands gathered to celebrate the defeat of Milei, his plan, and his accomplices with the general strike. This Saturday’s massive mobilization must be the starting point for a cycle of protests and struggles capable of bringing down the perpetual adjustment agenda of big business, Milei and […]

Germany and its return to facism?

SAFTU14 September 2026

SAFTU NEC POLITICAL EDUCATION BRIEFING 1. THE SHIFT TO THE HARD RIGHT IN GERMANY IS PART OF A MUCH BIGGER INTERNATIONAL WARNING The far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has surged in the Saxony-Anhalt state election in Germany. We should not read this as an isolated German development. It belongs to a much wider international political shift. […]

The biggest oil heist in world history? US grabs Venezuela’s oil reserves

Jorge Martin31 August 2026

On 28 August, in a social media post, Trump announced what he described as “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” by which the US takes majority control over 65 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela. That was followed by a shameful grovelling message by Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez in which she tried to frame […]

Massive flood in Nepal is a warning of climate change’s consequences

Martin Empson31 August 2026

Martin Empson explains how changing water levels threaten life as we know it The horrific flood on the border of Nepal has killed hundreds—probably thousands—of people. While we do not yet know the exact cause, it seems likely a glacier collapse was responsible. New Scientist magazine reported that melting snow had weakened a massive glacier […]

Whatever Happened to the ‘Enough Is Enough’ Campaign?

Joe Todd27 August 2026

‘The biggest political fumble of my life.’ On Wednesday 7 September 2022, Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket was packed out. Hundreds of people had queued around the block for the city’s biggest leftwing rally in years. Mark Thomas, a local homelessness worker, remembered being excited. “It was absolutely massive… It was something new,” he told Novara Media. […]

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Arundhati Roy23 July 2026

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding […]

Alex Callinicos: Is the United States turning to fascism? With aggression abroad and repression at home, Donald Trump’s drive to centralise power in his hands is undeniable

Alex Callinicos28 January 2026

It’s hardly surprising that social media is full of claims that fascism now reigns in the United States. Since 2026 began, two features of fascist regimes have been very visible. On one the hand, aggression abroad—the violent kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores in Venezuela, the threats of military action against Iran and Greenland. […]

The New World Order

Roger Silverman28 January 2026

The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its […]

Iran: Regime Change or Leader Change

Saeed Rahnema28 January 2026

Iran is once again in turmoil. Street uprisings have shaken the very foundations of the clerical regime, and its apparatus of repression is brutally killing unarmed demonstrators. The current movement shares both similarities and differences with the previous mass movement of 2022, Woman / Life / Freedom. That earlier movement was primarily social and cultural in […]

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