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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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!
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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 [...]’
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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/
The Israeli strikes may have inadvertently weakened the very safeguards they were intended to reinforce. By attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel has disrupted the IAEA’s ability to inspect and monitor key sites such as Natanz and Fordow. Surveillance has been suspended or significantly reduced, limiting international visibility into Iran’s nuclear activities.8 In response, Iranian officials have threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—a move that would dismantle the last formal mechanisms of international oversight. Meanwhile, political discourse within Iran has begun to shift. Figures who once adhered to the country’s long-standing taboo against nuclear weapons are now publicly questioning that restraint. The previous posture of maintaining technical capacity without pursuing a weapon may give way to a more openly confrontational stance. Rather than halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel’s campaign has obscured them further and expanded the domestic political space for weaponization.
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.”
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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.”
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You're very welcome.
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.”
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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"
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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."
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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.”
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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.”
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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”
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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.”
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