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Auf A. Said I grew up in the kampung heart of Tanjung Priok district in Jakarta, Indonesia, a place people call pinggiran, yet somehow more cosmopolitan than the polished neighbourhoods that claim the city’s official identity. Here, I lived within my familiar bubble of the Bugis-Makassar community.
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Muanis Sinanović In 1882, Karl Marx traveled outside Europe for the first time and set foot in one of the colonized lands with which he had previously engaged only in theory. He landed on the coast of Algeria and soon after wrote to his daughter Eleanor, “For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as su
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Fadiah Nadwa Fikri In July this year, members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. To enable this proscription, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 in the House of Commons, wh
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Cover Photo from Yuki Iwamura / AP Azeem Khan Since the heyday of European colonialism, Muslim reformists have argued for integration into the modern world and acceptance of the hegemonic order. In a similar vein, Muslims in the West are told to celebrate their successes and milestones: the first Mu
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Marwa Yousuf K. In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults in modern history, a Muslim man ran for mayor in the heart of empire and won. People celebrated, calling it a win for progress, diversity, and even justice, as if a scheduled
Analysis
Julia Kassem Trump’s November 6 summit with Central Asian leaders included several deals. The US President announced a $35 billion investment by Uzbekistan into ‘key American industries’ – though this wasn’t confirmed by either government, but did include investments in “geological surveying for cri
Analysis
In this exclusive interview, the Vox Ummah team discussed ongoing labor developments with the Iranian Federation of Gas Refinery Workers’ Associations (Bushehr Province) President Alireza Mirghaffari. The interview focuses on the gas workers’ strike, the workers’ orientation to imperialism, their su
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Hur Qassemi Heidelberg: In Germany, despite large protests in Berlin and Frankfurt with tens of thousands of pro-Palestine supporters opposing the Zionist entity and its ally, the German state, the imperialist network remains unmoved, and the broader population stays largely silent and passive. Ever
Analysis
Didier Aksanti and Laura Ziegler It has been three months since the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a peace agreement with Rwanda, brokered by Washington. Following the recent UN report highlighting large-scale massacres in areas occupied by M23 rebels supported by the Rwandan army, particu
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Zeyad el Nabolsy Abdulrahman Mohammed Babu (1924–1996) was one of the most significant African Marxist thinkers and political figures of the twentieth century. One of the key problems that confronted Babu was the claim that Marxism was a Western product, marked by the particular concerns of the West
Voices
Dr. Sharaiz Chaudhry Over the past two years, the world has witnessed Israel’s livestreamed genocide in Palestine and its aggression against the people of West Asia – sponsored and supported by the imperialist powers of North America and Europe. For many, this has opened their eyes to the injustice
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Harper Mead T. Hoxha is a 29-year-old activist for Palestine and one of the Filton 24, a group of UK activists held on remand for their alleged participation in an action against an Elbit weapons factory in Bristol. As of Monday, September 1, she is on her 22nd day of her hunger strike at HMP […]