Bulletin

Articles

• The 2011 Tunisian Revolution: Promise and Peril
  8 January, by Messaoud Romdhani

  "No phenomenon we know in life matches the revolution in its ability to summon hope, inspire it, and also betray it!" Asaf Bayet, prominent sociologist and scholar
  The Lesson of Zoshchenko’s Apartment
  In 1920, Lenin declared that ” Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification,” promising to bring electricity to every corner of the vast country. The Russian satirical writer Mikhail Zoshchenko experienced a different kind of illumination in his old apartment. When he switched on the (…)

• Addressing Food Insecurity in the Classroom: Sri Lanka’s School Meals Program
  15 December 2025, by Mackenzie Campbell

  On September 16th, 2025, the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education announced that 32 billion rupees will be allocated to a national school meal program. Despite the increase in budget, it might not be enough to sufficiently address Sri Lanka’s ongoing food crisis.
  How the Cost-of-Living Crisis Fuels Food Insecurity
  COVID-19 and the overwhelming economic crisis has left Sri Lanka with a lasting food insecurity crisis. Global economic systems make food a key (…)

• No Shahs, No Gods, No Yankee Imperialism
  16 January, by Niall Clapham Ricardo

  I find it absurd that this even needs to be said, but the moment demands clarity: the Islamic Republic of Iran—despite being in the crosshairs of the criminal agendas of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump—is not, and has never been, an ally of the left.
  I can oppose U.S. and Israeli imperial aggression without suspending my judgment about the nature of the Iranian state. Yet too often, parts of the left seem incapable of holding both truths at once. Some so-called “anti-imperialists” (…)

• The Future is Electric: Building a Just Energy Transition for Sri Lanka
  16 January, by Ryan Ngai Seung-yan

  Home to 22 million people, the island nation of Sri Lanka is uniquely vulnerable to economic disruption and the threats posed by anthropogenic climate change. The country’s economic growth and the resilience of its critical infrastructure is hampered by its reliance on expensive fossil fuel imports for electricity and fuel, a power grid stretched to the breaking point, and frequent intermittent power cuts. In order to drive sustainable socioeconomic development, uphold its environmental (…)

• Solidarity with the Iranian Protesters: Resist Regime Change Attempts by US-EU-Israel
  16 January, by Radical Socialist

  Radical Socialist stands in solidarity with the mass uprising in Iran against brutal state repression, and deteriorating national economic conditions triggered by the collapse of Iran’s official currency and skyrocketing inflation. The ongoing wave of protests began on 28th December 2025 in the Grand Bazaar within Tehran, and soon spread outside the national capital to all the total 31 provinces across Iran. Contrary to the disinformation propagated by Western media and Iranian state (…)

• Air Pollution Imperils South Asia
  13 January, by Vinod Mubayi

  India’s capital New Delhi has long “enjoyed” a dubious top-ranking; it is the world’s most polluted capital city in terms of air quality. Air pollution is usually measured in terms of the ambient air concentration of small particulate matter known as PM2.5, i.e., particulate matter with a mean aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 microns (micrometers) or less that is readily inhaled and enters the bloodstream along with many other organs of the body that poses serious consequences for cardiovascular, (…)