Yoshitaka Ota takes aim at the postcolonial alliance that has bound Tokyo to Taipei through the figure of a common Chinese enemy — a framing crystallised by Shinzo Abe's 2021 declaration that “a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency” and received warmly in both countries. Ota argues that this rapprochement masks an unfinished reckoning with Japan's imperial past, perpetuating what he calls coloniality: the systemic legacy of colonial rule obscured by present political affairs. Drawing on (…)

On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution qualifying transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Frédéric Thomas examines the stark North-South divide the vote revealed: 123 Southern states backed the Ghana-led initiative, while Western countries abstained and only the United States, Israel and Argentina voted against. He argues that European hostility reflects not genuine concern about hierarchies of atrocity but resistance to the reparatory justice (…)

Dans cet entretien avec Jacobin, le militant socialiste et syndicaliste ukrainien Artem Tidva s'entretient avec Erik Helgeson, vice-président national du Syndicat suédois des dockers, sur le boycott des navires russes en 2022 et sur le blocus du commerce militaire israélien en 2025. Helgeson décrit comment des initiatives de la base dans de petits ports du sud se sont transformées en action nationale validée par référendum, la pression juridique et politique exercée par les employeurs, et (…)