Newsletter

Each week, we produce a newsletter that provides a crisp analysis of contemporary developments and the struggles and conflicts of our time, highlights our newly launched publications, and offers a window into the work of left intellectuals and research institutes around the world.

June / 2026

25 June 2026

From Brain Capture to Intellectual Sovereignty: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2026)

Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.

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18 June 2026

The Concrete Is Drying in East Asia: The Twenty-Fifth Newsletter (2026)

A profound contradiction confronts East Asia: the region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war…

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11 June 2026

The World Needs a Living Left: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2026)

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.

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4 June 2026

Build the New Asia of Our Dreams: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2026)

Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a regional platform for coordination remains a vital material necessity to safeguard the region against imperialism and neocolonialism.

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28 May 2026

We Shall Not Host Our Executioners: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2026)

Although modern structures of extraction attempt to mask old systems of colonial plunder, the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force in the struggle for sovereignty and genuine freedom.

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21 May 2026

Socialism Is Slow to Mature: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2026)

While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world.

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14 May 2026

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary: The Twentieth Newsletter (2026)

The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.

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7 May 2026

Over a Billion People in the World Live with Disabilities: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2026)

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it – and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.

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30 April 2026

The Democracy of the Strongest Is Always the Best: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2026)

Had Thomas Sankara not been assassinated in 1987 and been allowed to advance Burkina Faso’s development, perhaps the Sahel would have followed his example a generation ago – and things might look very different today.

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23 April 2026

A Dialogue Across Civilisations, for Now: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2026)

The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?

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16 April 2026

A Primer on the Petrodollar and the War on Iran: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2026)

The illegal US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region.

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9 April 2026

The Strait of Hormuz, Gate to the Great Sea: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2026)

The US-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the…

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2 April 2026

Against the War without End: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2026)

In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of US aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.

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26 March 2026

Senegal on the Edge of Collapse: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2026)

Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.

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19 March 2026

Cuba Is Not Afraid: The Twelfth Newsletter (2026)

Faced with an illegal oil blockade, the Cuban government has expressed openness to talks with the Trump administration but will not abandon its principles of sovereignty and dignity.

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12 March 2026

The Far Right Goes to War Against Women: The Eleventh Newsletter (2026)

In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism.

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