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Unilateral coercive measures and the war on women: The Twelfth Newsletter (2025)
Despite being among the most impacted by economic war, women continue to foster a sense of solidarity, care, and hope in humanity.
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Twenty-five days of debt-service payments could emancipate African women from 40 billion hours of water harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, we explore how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
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The Global North has nine times more voting power at the IMF than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)
In the deeply undemocratic IMF, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.
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Impossible for a president of the imperialist U.S. to be a peacemaker
ON Friday, February 28, when U.S. President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office of the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump mused: ‘I hope I will be remembered as a peacemaker’.
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China has already become the leader in advanced critical technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?
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We want to build communities of readers, not turn readers into commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.
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Clean waters and green mountains are as valuable as gold and silver mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)
What new worlds can science fiction imagine? From clean energy to ecological transitions, this newsletter explores how Global South writers and policymakers alike imagine–and create–futures beyond colonialism, pollution, and environmental destruction.
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Let us find our lost diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)
Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the world?
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The life expectancy of Palestinians fell by 11.5 years in the first three months of the genocide: The Fifth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.
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The Promethean aspirations of the darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S. sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.
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All wars end in negotiations. So will the war in Ukraine: The Third Newsletter (2025)
Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.
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Dr Victor Frankenstein disavows his monster: The Second Newsletter (2025)
Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
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The tears of our children: The First Newsletter (2025)
A study came out in December that made me cry.
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Resist, my people, resist: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2024)
With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle; may it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken.
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How to understand the change of government in Syria: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2024)
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?
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The eighth Continent is the Continent of Sleaze: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2024)
The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of ‘corruption’ to underdevelop the Global South, whose social wealth it instead injects into the Continent of Sleaze.
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France must go from Africa is the slogan of the hour: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)
With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel.
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The United States raises a middle finger to the International Criminal Court: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
As the International Criminal Court finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
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Swimming in mud in the fifth circle of hell: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2024)
Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.
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We don’t want our Islands to be used to kill people: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2024)
Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania.