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Mehran Khalili

Out-organise the machine.

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It’s time for movements to rethink social media

Going viral was never the goal. The organising has to happen somewhere else.

I still listen to Radiohead

And I think Israel is committing genocide.

The left needs better answers for scared people

By separating our demands from end goals, we can speak to the fears people are living with today.

Audiences vanish, movements don’t

A reading list, and a conversation with Hasan Piker

Institutionalising resistance

The hidden cost of rituals in organising.

What happens when you refuse to fight?

A Ukrainian conscientious objector on our present era of militarisation.

Leica morning

How motivated reasoning works, from the inside.

Iran: How we oppose this war

With Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, on fighting back.

Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?

A majority opposes the Iran war and it doesn’t matter – yet.

“The problem is capitalism.” OK. Now what?

We’re paralysing people, not radicalising them.

The two reflexes that are breaking the left

What if the way we organise is the reason we’re not winning?

The US dropped the mask. Use it.

The new era of Open Empire should sharpen how we organise.

2025’s most ridiculous political moments

The mask is off. And it’s staying off.

We really need to stop blaming voters for the far right’s success

Deplorables 2.0 will get us nowhere.

The German playbook for silencing dissent

Berlin is being very, very naughty – and other governments are taking notes.