Francis Parny writes on LFI's municipal success: “Ten cities won, totaling around 600,000 inhabitants, and several villages as well : 400 communes in which there will be Unbowed city councilors, impacting 16 million people. And above all a political victory.” www.newintermag.com/a-step-forwa...

I wrote about the two separate occasions @newpersonalism.bsky.social visited Delaney Hall in solidarity with those imprisoned and to minister to their families waiting to see them. It struck me how banal the guards were in their cruelty there, and how there will soon be more, bigger prisons like it.

Jaime Pettit writes about ICE and the New Personalist intervention in New Jersey: “The nation has built the Gates of Hell [...] All that we can do is push back against the inferno in whatever way we can.” www.newintermag.com/notes-from-a...

One of my translations was just published in New International magazine. Amin’s “Syria After Assad” reflects on how Syria is being reckoned with after the regime’s collapse. Translating it meant staying close to a very tangible grief that I cannot pretend to understand.

Azzam Amin writes about the social composition of Syria and the stakes of this precarious moment: “For the moment, Damascus’s new leaders have presented no clear vision for what power will look like after the transition period.” www.newintermag.com/syria-after-...

Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke at a rally in Paris against US attacks on Venezuela: “At this hour, there is nothing but manifest aggression by the empire, meant to secure its domination over the Americas and over Europe. That is all.” www.newintermag.com/servility-pr...

Henry Wallis invites us to consider the last speech Jean Jaurès ever gave before his assassination and the outbreak of the First World War in a new translation. Happy New Year! www.newintermag.com/jaures-last-...

Alexey Sakhnin writes about Russia’s increasing repression of the left: ‘Now “crime” is no longer limited to taking action in the street or posting on social media, but includes merely talking in a factory smokeroom or posting in a group chat [...]’ www.newintermag.com/putins-terro...

Delighted that my latest translation for @newintermag.bsky.social is now live. Arnaud Le Gall argues the new U.S. National Security Strategy treats Europe as a subordinate to be disciplined through NATO & technological dependence. He calls for European strategic independence via non-alignment.

Arnaud Le Gall analyzes Trump’s National Security Strategy: ‘The newly unabashed U.S. imperialism no longer targets “only” South America. The NSS pulls no punches: Washington officially views Europe as a vassal to be re-educated.’ www.newintermag.com/washington-is-no-ally/

I wrote this piece for @newintermag.bsky.social in June after Israel’s lawless aerial bombardment of Iran. Watch this space as we see tensions between the IAEA and Iran are likely to heat up in the coming weeks.

Thomas Necchi writes: “[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.” www.newintermag.com/israels-narc...

A.M. Gittlitz writes about Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win: “Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.” www.newintermag.com/our-time-is-...

Kate Burgos writes on the contradictions of contemporary political memory: “It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.” www.newintermag.com/the-pankhurs...

Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work: “Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.” newintermag.com/revisionism-...

Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty." newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/

Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states" newintermag.com/against-losu...

James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy: “Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.” newintermag.com/choice-is-no...

Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza: “June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.” newintermag.com/the-global-m...

Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology: “[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.” newintermag.com/donald-trump...

I joined @josiahwsutton.bsky.social on “Fruitless” to talk about what’s going on in Iran.

Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict: "The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method." newintermag.com/iran-israel-...

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Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK): “[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.” newintermag.com/ocalans-last...

Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically: “Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.” newintermag.com/ai-as-class-...

Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled: “For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence” newintermag.com/assisted-sui...

Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy: “Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.” newintermag.com/the-peoples-...

My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!

Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves: “Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos” newintermag.com/workers-of-t...

Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books: “Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.” newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...

Tom O'Shea (@constantartifice.bsky.social) writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising: ‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom” newintermag.com/james-connol...

Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism. newintermag.com/turkeys-poli...

Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party: “Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.” newintermag.com/abundance-bi...

Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis: “Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.” newintermag.com/the-defeat-o...

John Duncan calls the Left to ‘recognise the divisions hidden by shallow liberal universalist attacks on “woke” and instead build a truly universal movement defined by solidarity.’ newintermag.com/universalism...

Youssef Bouchi writes on the importance of American socialism from his perspective as an Arab immigrant in Canada: "Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them." newintermag.com/the-world-ne...

The France Unbowed responds to the National Rally assistants affair convictions: "Marine Le Pen is the incarnation of the very system she claims to oppose. [...] What the RN wants is impunity for the privileged caste." Translated from @linsoumission.bsky.social. newintermag.com/the-unbowed-...

The bullshit bubble has burst but these machines and the marketing image of "AI" still serves as a mystification in the service of the diffusion and invisibilization of labour. An extract from 'The New Flesh' for @newintermag.bsky.social newintermag.com/the-labour-o...

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Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work. newintermag.com/outlaw-beaut...

In this essay I trace the humanist contours of the French radical left as expressed by Robespierre, Jaurès, and @antoine-leaument.bsky.social . newintermag.com/the-great-ja...

Jean Jaurès was the great martyr of turn-of-the-20th century French socialism. His vision of communist politics clashed with both Marxist-Leninism and social democracy. What can we learn from him today? newintermag.com/the-great-ja...

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Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) explains the ongoing controversy over the UK's End of Life Bill: “This governance manifests for the majority of the disabled people in England and Wales, if not Britain entirely, as a vast propensity for social murder.” newintermag.com/eugenic-aust...

~E271 - New International Year One~ @henryjwallis.bsky.social returns to unveil his new journal, @newintermag.bsky.social Then we discuss @gittlitz.bsky.social and @varnvlog.bsky.social's essay on The Resistance & its contradictions France Unbowed's model www.patreon.com/posts/116767...

L.B. Rolsky proposes that “Understanding how the American people have gravitated towards such forces [...] should not come as a surprise, or a source of disappointment. Instead, it should be met with a reinvigorated sense of commitment to getting the analysis right” newintermag.com/misunderstan...