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The far right does not come to power despite elections, but through them.

We must return to the rough-and-tumble grassroots terrain of political organizing, to the everyday, unglamorous work of building and sustaining collective forms of existence that make life a little less dependent on competition, debt, exhaustion and luck.

The far right does not come to power despite elections, but through them.

Perhaps the problem is that while this world was taking shape, an important part of the left continued to look for the people where it had last left them. And when it could no longer find them there, it concluded, all too quickly, that someone must have deceived them.

The far right does not come to power despite elections, but through them.

The crucial question, therefore, was not simply how to prevent its propaganda, but why such a substantial portion of the population chose—and chose again—this political project.

Brazil’s election will have consequences far beyond its borders. Join Alameda and Equator for a discussion with leading Brazilian public intellectuals on the stakes for democracy, sovereignty and the future of the region. Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brazil-and...

Read more at North South Notes “How to Watch Brazil This Month” www.northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to-wat...

A eleição brasileira terá consequências que vão muito além de suas fronteiras. Junte-se ao Alameda e à Equator para uma conversa com importantes intelectuais públicos brasileiros sobre o que está em jogo para a democracia, a soberania e o futuro da região. // @equatormag.bsky.social

Leia também: Vincent Bevins, na North South Notes: “Como acompanhar o Brasil neste mês” www.northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to-wat...

A eleição brasileira terá consequências que vão muito além de suas fronteiras. Junte-se ao Alameda e à Equator para uma conversa com importantes intelectuais públicos brasileiros sobre o que está em jogo para a democracia, a soberania e o futuro da região. // @equatormag.bsky.social

As the Kenyan economy flounders, hundreds of young men have started looking for jobs further afield. Many have ended up as unwilling soldiers on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Some have done so willingly. Others have been misled with the promise of civilian jobs. This line between willing and duped is often blurred.

As the Kenyan economy flounders, hundreds of young men have started looking for jobs further afield. Many have ended up as unwilling soldiers on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Kenya's National Intelligence Services (NIS) have estimated that well over 1,000 Kenyan nationals have travelled to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

As the Kenyan economy flounders, hundreds of young men have started looking for jobs further afield. Many have ended up as unwilling soldiers on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Harrowing stories have emerged across the continent of Africans duped by promises of well-paid civilian work in Russia. From South Africa to Togo and Cameroon, a sophisticated network of recruiters has kept African labour flowing to the Russian frontline.

"Western social democracies are starting to feel more and more like these peripheral formations. The centre is shrinking and the periphery is actually expanding. There's something exceptional about the way that capitalism formed around the security of the nation-state."

"There is an idea of internationalism built into this that is important not to lose." — Kanishka Goonewardena

"Western social democracies are starting to feel more and more like these peripheral formations. The centre is shrinking and the periphery is actually expanding. There's something exceptional about the way that capitalism formed around the security of the nation-state."

"In places that have been abandoned by the state, people are forced to fend for themselves. New forms of solidarity, survival, self-defence do emerge. We cannot depend on the state for any of this." — Kanishka Goonewardena

"Western social democracies are starting to feel more and more like these peripheral formations. The centre is shrinking and the periphery is actually expanding. There's something exceptional about the way that capitalism formed around the security of the nation-state."

Who ends up fighting in a war that isn't theirs, and how do they get there? The Kenyan government estimates that more than 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited to fight for Russia, many after responding to ads for civilian jobs.

In this episode of The Slow Newscast, Stephen tells how an offer of security work in Russia took him to the front line in Ukraine. The episode is part of Alameda’s After Order project, examining the transformation of sovereignty in a time of catastrophe.

We can say that the Burnham years are likely to be ideologically innovative in ways that the Starmer years were not.

Burnham’s radical-lite messaging is itself a sign that Polanski has managed to push Labour to the left in recent months.

We can say that the Burnham years are likely to be ideologically innovative in ways that the Starmer years were not.

It would be difficult not to conclude that Burnham has entered office as the most ostensibly left-wing figure to become UK prime minister since James Callaghan in 1976.

We can say that the Burnham years are likely to be ideologically innovative in ways that the Starmer years were not.

What does sovereignty mean when the nation-state model begins to break down and the “periphery” becomes a defining logic of global capitalism?

Drawing on Brazilian critical theory, the “peripherization thesis” and cases including @teiadospovos.bsky.social and delivery courier strikes, Popular Sovereignties Under Peripheral Conditions reframes sovereignty as self-determination and a material condition for collective politics.

What does sovereignty mean when the nation-state model begins to break down and the “periphery” becomes a defining logic of global capitalism?