The Protests in France: “Those Who Sow Misery Reap Anger”

Not merely an excellent primer to the protests in France but also a powerful indictment of mainstream media/ liberal accounts, their underlying racism…

Oct 20 • Rositsa Kratunkova

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What If Hungarian History Were Part of World History?: a mini-essay on György Jakab’s National Cheer/ National Gloom (2006)

Departing from Jakab’s recent book, József Böröcz critiques Hungary’s trauma-driven national identity, arguing that only comparative and transnational…

Oct 15 • József Böröcz

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September 2026

What Is the Family? A Response to Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain

Situating the contemporary Marxist theorisation of the family in capitalism within a longer history of Marxist feminist debates in Germany, Russia, and…

Sep 24 • Anastasia Kalk

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“To Create Model Social Institutions”: The International Communist Women’s Movement, Reproductive Labor, and the Politics of Care, 1920–1936

Interwar Communist women’s activism for the socialization of housework and care, argues Daria Dyakonova, offered a powerful vision of what we now know…

Sep 17 • Daria Dyakonova

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July 2026

The World Cup revealed the hypocrisy of our "politically correct" culture

World Cup discourse reproduced a colonial binary of rational Europe versus emotional non-West. Rejecting teams as political proxies, Cihan Tuğal urges…

Jul 30 • Cihan Tuğal

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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” postsocialist think tank, which will be hosted on Red Threads.

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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