[English] – Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the emergence of nation states, the construction of the “migrant,” the role of left-wing nationalism in the failure of anti-imperialist struggles, and whether the No Borders movement points toward a revolutionary strategy for overcoming working-class divisions. Published by Ill Will, June 21, 2026: The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join.
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[English] – This interview was conducted by Ralf Ruckus and appeared in Spectre Journal on November 18, 2025. Dong Yige witnessed the movement of young feminist activists in the 2010s in China and has researched the history of proletarian women there. In the interview, she focuses on the current crisis of social reproduction, women's agency, and feminism in China. A shorter version of the interview in German appeared in the Swiss weekly WOZ.
[English] – Ralf Ruckus wrote an article on how declining fertility, disrupted social reproduction, and women’s resistance undermine China's capitalism under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. The article was published by Spectre Journal on November 12, 2025: China's Other Crisis. A shorter German version is available here.
[English] – On July 7, 2025, Asian Labour Review published two related papers written by Samia Dinkelaker and Ralf Ruckus. The first one, Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour: An Overview, shortly describes distinct phases of that regime and serves as a summary of the second paper: Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour: Timeline of Changes, a detailed chronology of state regulations, migrant protests, local support, and other important events from the mid-1980s to the present.
[English] – On June 17, 2025, Spectre Journal published this article by Ralf Ruckus: What Everyone on the Left Should Know about Taiwan (at the Minimum). It was announced as "a historical primer for leftists interested in a critique of Taiwan’s capitalism and the nationalist claims coming from both sides of the Taiwan Strait."
[English] – Ralf Ruckus wrote a review on the book China in Global Capitalism. Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry written by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith. The review appeared on the Spectre Journal website on September 9, 2024. You can also read a summary of the book here on the blog.
[English] – This a summary of the book China in Global Capitalism. Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith (Haymarket Books 2024). For a critique of the book, see the review on the Spectre-website by Ralf Ruckus.
[English] – On May 8, 2024, Ralf Ruckus was interviewed for the for the tenth episode of a series about the revolutionary culture of the 1960s. The episode and the series are produced by the Antifada podcast: The Cultural Revolution w/ Ralf Ruckus.
[English] – On March 4. 2024, the Asian Labour Review published an interview that Samia Dinkelaker and Ralf Ruckus conducted with Chen Su-hsiang and Wu Jing-ru, both members of TIWA (Taiwan International Workers’ Association). Su-hsiang and Jing-ru trace how Taiwan’s labor migration policies have changed over the years and which role migrant workers’ demands as well as the support activities of TIWA and others have played in this development: “We still have a long way to go”: On Taiwan’s Migration Regime since the 1990s.
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