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The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique
The war economy relies on the enclosure of the commons. By reclaiming the commons, we can build a world based on cooperation, ecological...

The Left Chapter
Jul 31, 20257 min read


NATO: The No-Exit Trap of Hotel California?
By Biljana Vankovska My analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become...

The Left Chapter
Jul 26, 20254 min read


Europe’s Betrayal of Gaza
Europe has a choice. It could follow the will of its citizens. Instead, it is choosing profits over Palestinian lives. Red Line for Gaza...

The Left Chapter
Jul 21, 20254 min read


The First Crack in NATO’s Fortress? Slovenia Opens the Referendum Conundrum
Public domain image By Biljana Vankovska At NATO’s recent summit in The Hague (24–25 June), alliance leaders triumphantly announced a...

The Left Chapter
Jul 21, 20254 min read


The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s Hallucinations
Leaders photo at the NATO Summit, June 25 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic...

The Left Chapter
Jun 30, 20255 min read


The Illegal Attack on Iran
In the aftermath of the attack in Tehran -- Student News Agency, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad Israel’s consistent...

The Left Chapter
Jun 13, 20255 min read


It’s Time to Consign NATO to the Dustbin of History
By Biljana Vankovska As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in...

The Left Chapter
Jun 3, 20254 min read


Europe’s Left Must Unite to Oppose NATO's Rearmament and Austerity
A Hungarian Soldier fires his weapon during the US-NATO Swift Response 25 exercise in Norway, May, 2025 -- public domain image By John...

The Left Chapter
Jun 2, 20255 min read


Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

The Left Chapter
May 8, 20255 min read


The World’s Greatest Long Hikes
For those willing to brave extended treks in nature, the world’s best long hikes offer challenges and amazing rewards. A hiker on the...

The Left Chapter
May 4, 20258 min read


The European Union on the Crossroads: Tariffs from Friends, Trade from Competitors
Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The ninety-day customs truce ‘graciously’ granted by Trump is...

The Left Chapter
Apr 24, 20255 min read


Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
By Gary M. Feinman Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very...

The Left Chapter
Apr 19, 20254 min read


The New Bandung Spirit Is About Industrial Development
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Sugiono at the BRICS Summit in Russia, 2024 -- image via X By Vijay Prashad In January 2025, Indonesia – the...

The Left Chapter
Apr 14, 20255 min read


Who Pays the Price for the Return of German Militarism?
The resurgence of German militarism, Europe’s arms fever, and the war rhetoric from Washington all point toward escalation. But as...

The Left Chapter
Mar 31, 20255 min read


We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Image from a Roger Waters concert, Portugal, 2023 -- Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Roger Waters The following is a...

The Left Chapter
Mar 28, 202512 min read


First, They Came for the Venezuelans
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized...

The Left Chapter
Mar 25, 20255 min read


Germany and the EU Embrace Military Keynesianism
German armored personnel carrier in Bavaria, Germany, November, 2024 -- public domain image By Matthew Read Just days before its...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 20254 min read


What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...
Michael Laxer
Mar 16, 20257 min read


Macedonia’s Foreign Policy Between Two Suns
Mickoski speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) -- Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20255 min read


What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Ukraine?
Macron, Starmer and Zelenskyy, March 2, 2025 -- Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20255 min read
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