Struggling to Hold the Heights: The Evolution of Far-Right in the Russian Federation, 2025–2026

Fueled by state-backed nationalism, militarization, anti-immigrant rhetoric as well as online radicalization, the Russian far right has become both…

Jul 21 • Антифа ру

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Remember Rojava?: An Interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst

Red Threads is delighted to interview Tekoşîna Anarşîst (Anarchist Struggle), an international volunteer unit who fought ISIS as part of SDF and…

Jul 9 • Red Threads

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June 2026

Research Center Superstructure: a Manifesto

Introducing a newly established “red” research center!

Jun 12 • Superstructure

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Armenia’s Working Class Is Missing from Election Coverage

Armenia's elections are framed as a geopolitical contest, but the real fault line is class. The ruling party's resilience reflects the legacies of…

Jun 6 • Yerevan-based leftist activist

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Reconciliation with Fascism in Times of Capitalist Transition: The Case of Slovenia

Slovenian “national reconciliation” during capitalist transition rehabilitated fascist collaborators, weakened anti-fascist memory, consolidated new…

Jun 1 • Gal Kirn

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May 2026

The Cultural Turn and Soviet Environmental History

Alex Herbert shows how post-1991 Soviet historiography was shaped by a cultural turn, which marginalized materialist analysis, emphasized disaster, and…

May 13 • Alex

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April 2026

The Phantom Limb and Fictive Kinship in Wartime Russia

Jeremy Morris's ethnography shows how Soviet collective life’s “phantom limb” lingers in today's Russia, shaping both new corporate “families” and…

Apr 23 • Jeremy Morris

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Clarity in Turbulence: Hard Truths the Hard Way

Carney’s recent speech and the whole record of Eastern Europe’s transition to inequality, exploitation, and crisis expose Western capitalism’s “rules…

Apr 2 • Ovidiu Tichindeleanu

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March 2026

“Behind every killed comrade, there are hundreds of comrades”: Our interview on Iran with Shora Esmailian

Against the grim backdrop of US-Israeli imperialist aggression, Esmailian speaks with Red Threads about Iranian society, its complexity, aspirations…

Mar 25 • Shora Esmailian and Matan Kaminer

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"Care is the Basis that Makes Life Possible": an Interview with LevFem about Socialist Feminist Struggles in Bulgaria

As the first of its profiles of leftist organizations from the postsocialist world, Red Threads is delighted to publish Burcu Ayan’s interview with the…

Mar 14 • Red Threads

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Red Threads: Universalism from the East

Opening editorial statement for an internationalist left publication, speaking from the former Second World to the planet, rooted in shared politics and…

Mar 8 • Red Threads

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