Posts By: Mehran Khalili

What does the far right offer that we don’t?

6.10.2026

Why is the far right winning in Europe? Germany’s AfD party has won two state elections in a month; nearly one in four Europeans now votes far ...

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We’re all reading the same five things

Opinion

9.09.2026

What are the sources you actually rely on to stay informed right now? Over the summer I listened to “What’s The Plan” from the US organising ...

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It’s time for movements to rethink social media

Opinion

18.08.2026

When we use social media in our organising, what are we actually doing? Is it worth the time we put into it? And is there a way of doing it that ...

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Radiohead concert

I still listen to Radiohead… and I think Israel is committing genocide

Opinion

27.06.2026

Afriend just told me he can’t listen to Radiohead anymore over Palestine. As the death toll in Gaza climbed, the band stayed mostly quiet. And ...

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Warplanes fly over Athens

The left needs better answers for scared people

Opinion

17.06.2026

By separating our immediate demands from end goals, the left can speak to the real fears people are living with today. These are insecure times. ...

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Palestine resistance

Institutionalising resistance

Opinion

12.05.2026

Much of the damage in our organising is done by things we never agreed to do. It was 2008 and I’d arrived in Brussels six months earlier, the ...

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Yurii Sheliazhenko

Refusing to kill: A conversation with Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko

30.04.2026

What happens when you refuse to fight? As militarisation accelerates across Europe and beyond, Mehran Khalili spoke with Yurii Sheliazhenko, a ...

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Iran: How we oppose this war

23.03.2026

Earlier this week I sat down with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley on a DiEM25 livestream to ask a question I’ve been circling for weeks now ...

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Iran war

Where’s the resistance to the Iran war?

Opinion

13.03.2026

A majority of Americans already oppose the war in Iran, but the bombs won’t stop until public opinion is converted into real pressure

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