Who gets to define Ukraine's postwar future — and on whose terms? This report from the Centre for Social and Labour Research (TsSTD) documents the interventions of Ukrainian labour researchers, trade unionists, and legal experts at a side event at the June 2026 Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk — an event that drew over two hundred companies and fewer than a handful of union representatives to its main stage. Three arguments run through the report: that reconstruction policy is being (…)

Jaime Pastor Verdú propose ici une lecture systématique des travaux d'Enzo Traverso sur Marx, le marxisme, la gauche et la révolution, publiée dans la revue Pensamiento al Margen à l'occasion d'un numéro consacré à l'histoire intellectuelle de l'historien italo-américain. Pastor identifie trois axes principaux dans l'œuvre de Traverso. Le premier est la critique du « marxisme orthodoxe » de la IIe Internationale, dominé par un évolutionnisme téléologique incapable de saisir les oppressions (…)

Abhishek Avtans' cross-linguistic survey of swearing in South Asian languages is as much a study in social structure as in phonetics. A linguist at Leiden University, Abhishek Avtans argues that profanity in South Asian languages functions as a precise diagnostic of the region's social order — encoding caste hierarchy, patriarchal kinship expectations, religious enmity, and gender policing into the texture of everyday speech. Relational insults and the grammar of hierarchy Where (…)