Writing in The Hindu after Viktor Orbán's 12 April 2026 electoral defeat, Indian Marxist-feminist Kavita Krishnan draws six lessons for an international readership and, above all, for India under Narendra Modi. She argues that illiberal democracies can be ousted at the ballot box; that obituaries for universal democracy are premature; that Ukraine won the Hungarian vote; that regime-change accusations are confessions; that Orbán's fall is a defeat for Xi Jinping as well as Donald Trump, (…)

Two leading members of Anticapitalistas reflect on the challenges facing the left today.
1.Where Have We Come From?
Almost eight years have passed since Pedro Sánchez's PSOE government came to power, first alone and, from 2020 onwards, in coalition with Unidas Podemos (Podemos, IU, Comunes) until 2023 and with Sumar (IU, Comunes, Movimiento Sumar) from then on. This period, practically two full legislative terms, is more than enough to make an accurate assessment of what the progressive (…)

A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims.
People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Tomorrow, for the first time since I immigrated to Israel at the age of nine, I will not stand for the siren on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Across the country, a two-minute siren rings out (…)

The people of the United States are demonstrating a growing dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump's administration and in particular with his war on Iran. While most Republicans continue to back the president, some in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement oppose the war. Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25^th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he's mentally unstable.
Wartime presidents have historically risen in the (…)

La défenseure ukrainienne des droits humains Halya Coynash retrace la construction méthodique, par la propagande d'État russe, du récit d'un « massacre » nationaliste qui aurait eu lieu à Odessa le 2 mai 2014. Elle expose comment ce récit, démenti par l'ensemble des enquêtes indépendantes, a été maintenu en vie par Moscou durant des années, utilisé pour enrôler des combattants dans le Donbass et présenté sans contradiction à des publics étrangers. L'autrice alerte sur la lenteur de la (…)

Boris Zala, philosophe slovaque et cofondateur au début de 1990 de la Sociálnodemokratická strana na Slovensku (Parti social-démocrate en Slovaquie, SDSS), revient sur l'atmosphère politique de novembre 1989 de l'intérieur. Les foules qui occupaient les places slovaques réclamaient la démocratie, l'humanisme et le bien-être — non la privatisation, la dérégulation ou les « requins privés » dans la santé. Les projets de transformation graduelle portés par des économistes comme Valtr Komárek et (…)

Le 18 avril 2026, plus d'une vingtaine de chefs d'État et de gouvernement progressistes se sont réunis à Barcelone sous l'égide de Pedro Sánchez pour la quatrième Réunion en défense de la démocratie. Le reportage d'Aleix Moldes et Cristina Mas restitue les engagements pris — réforme de l'ONU, candidature d'une Latino-Américaine au secrétariat général, fonds onusien pour la reforestation proposé par Sheinbaum, gouvernance numérique — et les lignes de fracture : plusieurs participants refusent (…)

Boris Zala, Slovak philosopher and co-founder in early 1990 of the Sociálnodemokratická strana na Slovensku (Social Democratic Party in Slovakia, SDSS), revisits the political atmosphere of November 1989 from inside. The crowds on Slovak squares demanded democracy, humanism and welfare — not privatisation, deregulation or “private sharks” in healthcare. Gradualist reform concepts formulated by economists such as Valtr Komárek and Hvezdoň Kočtúch were displaced within months by the (…)

Radical Socialist, section indienne de la IV^e Internationale, publie cette déclaration de condamnation de la Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 (Loi de 2026 portant amendement de la Loi sur les personnes transgenres — protection des droits), adoptée par la Lok Sabha le 24 mars 2026, par la Rajya Sabha le 25 mars 2026, et promulguée par la présidente Droupadi Murmu le 30 mars 2026. Ce texte annule le droit à l'auto-détermination du genre, consacré par l'arrêt NALSA (…)

Militante indienne des droits des personnes transgenres, artiste de théâtre et autrice, A. Revathi — dite Revathi Amma — a accordé cet entretien à GroundXero en décembre 2025. Publié en avril 2026 sur fond de promulgation par New Delhi de la Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 (Loi de 2026 portant amendement de la Loi sur les personnes transgenres), qui abroge le droit à l'auto-identification consacré par l'arrêt NALSA de 2014, l'entretien parcourt la fragmentation (…)

Indian transgender rights activist, author and theatre practitioner A. Revathi — known as Revathi Amma — spoke to Sudarshana Chakraborty for GroundXero in December 2025. The interview is published in April 2026 against the backdrop of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, which strips the right to self-identification affirmed by the 2014 NALSA judgement. Revathi addresses the fragmentation of the Indian LGBTQIA+ movement, the trap of NGO-driven politics, the (…)

As many as 53 percent of respondents to an poll believe that the public is always or often afraid to discuss politics. The component on the state of freedom was included in the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) survey titled “Evaluation and Public Commitment to [the state ideology] Pancasila”, which was presented by LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan in Cikini, Central Jakarta, on Sunday April 12.
Respondents were asked to express their opinions on several questions, one of which was (…)