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The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Communist prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
Eight decades ago, communist prisoners organised and liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, where they were held. As the far right of a special type rises across Europe, these heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.
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Dossier no. 87: The Bandung Spirit
In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?
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Andrée Blouin is our kind of Pan-African revolutionary: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2025)
There is a rich tradition of women writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike, from Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa. Learn more about their legacy and efforts to carry forward their torch today.
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Students protest continue in Indonesia
Over the last several weeks, demonstrations have erupted across Indonesia.
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What Rodolfo Walsh would demand we write in his place: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2025)
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.
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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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Dossier no. 86: Imperialist War and Feminist Resistance in the Global South
In the Global South, women creatively resist the impact of unilateral coercive measures, a form of hyper-imperialist hybrid warfare that reinforces patriarchy and other forms of social discrimination.
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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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Dossier no. 85: The joy of reading
Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
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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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Dossier no. 84: Towards a New Development Theory for the Global South
As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfill the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.
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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.