Rositsa Kratunkova's article offers not merely an excellent primer to the protests in France but also a powerful indictment of mainstream media/ liberal accounts, their underlying racism, and indifference to human suffering. redthreads.media/p/the-prote…

In this mini-essay on György Jakab’s National Cheer/ National Gloom (2006), József Böröcz critiques Hungary’s trauma-driven national identity, arguing that only comparative and transnational histories can de-essentialize the nation. ⤵️

As part of our ongoing Red Feminisms series, @AnastasiaKalk reviews The Contested Domain, a recent selection of writings by Lise Vogel, situating her search for what the family means within a longer history of Marxist feminist debates in Germany, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Out now! Daria Dyakonova on the work of the Communist Women’s Movement in the interwar period and their pioneering vision for the socialisation of housework and care, which they conceptualised as the “social economy” and advanced through their international campaigns. ⤵️

In this article, Cihan Tugal critiques a New Yorker essay that framed the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina as a contest between method and madness. ⤵️

This study produced for Red Threads by the Antifaru project shows how, in the context of the war against Ukraine, the Russian far right has become both more mainstream and more violent, fueled by state-backed nationalism, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and online radicalization. ⤵️

Red Threads is delighted to interview Tekoşîna Anarşîst (Anarchist Struggle), an international volunteer unit who fought ISIS as part of SDF and remained in Syria to support the Rojava Revolution. ⤵️

Red Threads is delighted to introduce Superstructure, a new “red” research center born from the BASIS–2025 Forum in Bishkek, organized by Kyrgsoc, Red Threads, and Books for Development. Much of its work will be hosted on our website. Read the founding manifesto below ⬇️

Today Armenia's elections are framed as a geopolitical contest between Russia and the West. But what if the real story is class? An anonymous Armenian leftist activist argues that the answer lies not in geopolitics, but in class struggle and postsocialist transformations. ⤵️

New out on Red Threads: Gal Kirn's article on "Reconciliation with Fascism in Times of Capitalist Transition: The Case of Sloevnia". Read it here: redthreads.media/p/reconcili…

Jeremy Morris's ethnography shows how Soviet collective life’s “phantom limb” lingers in today's Russia, shaping both new corporate “families” and wartime social reproduction amid neoliberal precarity redthreads.media/p/the-phant…

"Care is the Basis that Makes Life Possible": an Interview with LevFem about Socialist Feminist Struggles in Bulgaria redthreads.media/p/care-is-t…

This March 8th we are proud to launch Red Threads. Our distinctive contribution: a Universalism from the East. Our opening editorial statement is about how we understand this position - at once geographical & political - reclaiming the struggles of 20th-century socialism.