North South Notes
Vincent Bevins, Aamer, Efthimios Karayiannides, Piero Locatelli, Stephanie Weatherbee Brito, Kareema Abbas, Organic Intellectuals Network, Njeri Mwangi, Miguel Yoshida, Saleh Selim, Camila Rocha, Rodrigo NunesA global affairs mini-magazine. Heartfelt correspondence from the periphery and the imperial core
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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How to watch Brazil this month
On Sunday, October 4, Brazilians will vote for president, members of Congress, state governors and local officials. Three weeks later, it is very likely they will vote again, in a run-off to select either Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva or Fláv...
My next two books
Belated but big announcement
In July 2025 I signed a two-book deal with Doubleday / Penguin Random House. I am very excited to work with Thomas Gebremedhin and the rest of the team. In the UK, Allen Lane will publish my next book, and Eina...
Pride and Dependency
This week we feature an Egyptian journalist, employing a pseudonym for their safety, reflecting on the deep causes of a painful national paralysis. North South Notes is reader supported. To help produce work like this, please consider becom...
The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout
Far too many people in my cohort believe, albeit subconsciously, in the “marketplace of ideas.” Even for media professionals who have come to identify as leftists, who study the political economy of communication, who oppose “tech” dominati...
The stampede
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is now one of the world’s largest and best-known social movements. The hundreds of thousands of families in the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra push for radical land reform, most famous...
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Author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, as well as longtime foreign correspondent | Now running North South Notes
Writer and analyst. Ruthless critic of all that exists.
Historian of 20th century South Africa
Jornalista e pesquisador. Escrevo sobre política, direitos humanos, cidades e afins. Atualmente em São Paulo, Brasil.
International Secretariat Coordinator of International People's Assembly (IPA) | www.ipa-aip.org
An islander doing her best. Bahrain
The Kenya Organic Intellectuals Network (OIN) is a collective of writer-activists, researchers, and grassroots organizers rooted in Kenya's social justice movements. https://www.organicintellectualsnetwork.org/
Njeri Mwangi is a community organizer in Mathare, she serves as the Chairperson of the Domestic Workers and Waste Pickers Cooperative Society.
coordenador editorial da Expressão Popular e pesquisador do departamento de arte e cultura do Instituto Tricontinental de Pesquisa Social
Leftist in Cairo looking for answers
Brazilian Political Scientist and Scientific Director of the Center for Critical Imagination at Cebrap, São Paulo
Philosopher, professor at PUC-Rio (Brazil), author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation and Anatomy of Disintegration: What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right
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