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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…
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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. ⤵️
Image Credit: Red Women’s Workshop, “Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labour,” 1975. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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.
This article is part of Red Feminisms, a new Red Threads series that aims to recover the progressive legacies of socialist thought and socioeconomic policies that sought to restructure the historically gendered relationship between productive and reproductive labor. Stay tuned!
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. ⤵️
This article is part of Red Feminisms, a new Red Threads series that aims to recover the progressive legacies of socialist thought and socioeconomic policies that sought to restructure the historically gendered relationship between productive and reproductive labor. Stay tuned!
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.
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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.
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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.
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"What if the impulse that destroyed the community of post-socialist countries paradoxically created new foundations for it?"
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