Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...

Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...

Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...

Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...

Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

France risks becoming ungovernable. Many blame the situation on Macron’s autocratic style. But the problem lies deeper, in the development of the parties and party elites. By Gilles Bataillon via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

When Belarusian society rose up five years ago, the century-old hopes of the national liberation movement seemed close to realization. What remains of those hopes today? By Uladzimir Liankievič in collaboration with @dekoder.org www.eurozine.com/my-testament/

Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

'Die eigentliche Leistung des britischen Luftwaffenführungsstabes bestand darin, das Konzept des Air Policing aus dem Kontext der asymmetrischen Kriegführung gegen kolonisierte Volksgruppen auf den Staatenkrieg zwischen europäischen Industrienationen zu übertragen.'👇🏼 www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

A century on from partition, internal colonialism continues to characterize relations between England and Northern Ireland, writes @katyhayward.bsky.social via @iwm.at www.eurozine.com/eternal-twil...

The president who preached revolution: A portrait of Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s quixotic leftwing leader, by Iván Garzón Vallejo via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/the-presiden...

While Lula has managed to stabilize the Brazilian economy and restore some key social programs, these gains remain fragile, writes @nararoberta.bsky.social via @publicseminar.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/lula-3-0-and...

Dieses Anliegen liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/wi...

Brosius-Gersdorf is a taste of things to come in the event of an SPD attempt to ban the AfD (not the same as saying a ban would not be constitutional or democratic).

Thirty years on from the Srebrenica massacre, how The Netherlands has failed to acknowledge the ‘moral truth’ of the victims. Also: perspectives on the fascism debate; and why society needs a conversation about dying www.eurozine.com/moral-truth/

The outbreak of the Lebanese civil war fifty years ago inaugurated an era of nation-state collapse in the Arab world. Hamit Bozarslan on the ‘Arab Apocalypse’, via Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-arab-apo...

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship. New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

‘The Syrian tragedy cannot be summed up simply as the murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings; it also involved the denial of any meaning to the extreme suffering of the Syrian people.’ Yassin al-Haj Saleh in interview with Esprit www.eurozine.com/the-art-of-d...

The Serbian student movement symbolizes a generational shift and national renewal. For the first time in years, people are seeing a future for themselves and their children. By Branka Ćurčić www.eurozine.com/serbias-pres...

Prospects of an end to Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people are as distant as ever. But momentum for a ceasefire, and even statehood, would likely be stronger were Palestinian factions not themselves still divided, write Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh www.eurozine.com/the-gutting-...

@tenuredradical.bsky.social called it www.eurozine.com/broken-beyon...

Today, as Russia’s regressive war on Ukraine reopens old conflicts, the Helsinki Final Act and other East-West treaties stand as monuments to European modernity. By Durs Grünbein in collaboration with Debates on Europe www.eurozine.com/the-resilien...

Notable about this book was that it was about decolonising the *African* mind, which distinguished Ngũgĩ's project from Edward Said's.

Translated excerpt from an important new book on the totalitarian transformation of the Lukashenka regime, by @ingopetz.bsky.social - best source on Belarus around. Book info here and translation below: www.edition-fototapeta.eu/rasender-sti...

Das muss wohl Putins "Dialogbereitschaft" sein: Das Wiener Institut der Wissenschaft vom Menschen @iwm.at wurde in Russland zur "unerwünschten Organisation" erklärt. Am IWM werde versucht, die "territoriale Unversehrtheit" Russlands zu verletzen. (I kid you not) epp.genproc.gov.ru/web/gprf/mas...

There are grounds for hope that the tide is turning in favour of the Serbian student movement: first, the unification of the opposition around the movement’s demand for new elections; second, the emergence of a new strategic alliance between the students and the EU. www.eurozine.com/serbias-awak...

The psychological toll of living in a warzone is causing children in Gaza to lose their ability to communicate. By Sarah Dawood via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/left-speechl...

dekoder ist besorgt über die Zukunft des unabhängigen #Journalismus in und über Ukraine, Belarus und Russland. In einem Appell mit @platformraam.nl an die Europäische Union fordern wir die wichtigsten Organe der #EU auf, die bedrohten Medien wirksam zu unterstützen: www.dekoder.org/de/article/a...

Notable that the main question in the debate on an AfD ban is whether, were the complaint to be rejected, the AfD would emerge stronger, and not whether the democratic benefits of a ban, were it to pass, outweigh the democratic risks of a massive politicisation of the constitutional court.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and its denial of rights at home, are precisely the kind of development that the OSCE was set up to prevent. So why has it failed to fulfil its purpose? By Fredrik Löjdquist @sceeus-ui.bsky.social in partnership with Debates on Europe www.eurozine.com/from-helsink...

The end of the Second World War was not a single moment defined by victory and defeat. Rather, it was a pluriform and drawn-out process perpetuated by colonial power politics in the Global South. By Th. W. Bottelier via @revdem2020.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-many-end...

The Second World War no longer serves as a history of the western European present. The current era is marked by a different set of problems, not least the fading appeal of the model of democracy installed after 1945. By Camilo Erlichman via @revdem2020.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-depoliti...

Two opposing interpretations of 1945 form the ideological core of today’s confrontation between Russia and states of central and eastern Europe. The one is anti-fascist, the other anti-totalitarian. By @ferenclaczo.bsky.social @revdem2020.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/a-clash-of-r...

Interesting interview with @quinnslobodian.com in @eurozine.bsky.social

New development in an ongoing debate on new right tendencies at the department of modern history at Würzburg University: Bavarian ministry of science dismisses complaint by students. Background by @niklasweber.bsky.social www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

SPÖ holds Vienna by a mile as conservative vote splits between FPÖ and ÖVP.

'Sich selbst sehr ernst zu nehmen, die eigenen Interessen und Begeisterungen für allgemeine zu halten, und zugleich zu wissen, dass es keineswegs so ist, dass es auf das eigene Ich nicht ankommt, ist tägliche Erfahrung in Redaktionen.' @jensbisky.bsky.social zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2025/1...

As a young Slovak dissident, the Helsinki Accords seemed to Martin M. Simecka at the time merely to cement the status quo. He was proven wrong. In collaboration with Debates on Europe www.eurozine.com/how-the-hels...

this is the only article I’ve read that makes any sense of what’s going on re the US and the rest of the world www.eurozine.com/slobodian-fo...

For the US today, tariffs serve the same purpose as bombs: the exercise of power. This drives a wedge between the Trump regime and its international far-right allies, says @quinnslobodian.com in conversation with Vikerkaar www.eurozine.com/slobodian-fo...

Osteuropa at 100: the history of the journal from Weimar to the present; a century of German–Russian projections; eastern European literature in translation; the bilateral politics of classical @dgoberlin.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/in-the-spiri...

Well, look on the bright side: www.reuters.com/world/has-tr...

Again, people are challenging Turkey's culture of public silence; and again, they are being punished for doing so. By @kayagenc.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-voice-th...

Controversies over the legacies of dictatorship and civil war have polarized the Spanish debate for over two decades. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s death, the legitimacy of the transition is uncertain www.eurozine.com/spains-forev...

After the catastrophic performance of the traffic light coalition, what Germany needs is a strong, unified government able to provide an antidote to the new fascism. By Albrecht von Lucke of @blaetter.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/watershed-fo...

Nice try @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Is this a Nazi salute? From the new Private Eye, out now.

The US administration’s switch of allegiance undermines plans for a tribunal capable of trying the Russian leadership for the crime of international aggression, writes Yana Sliemzina of Gwara Media www.eurozine.com/a-special-tr...