Papua's forests and indigenous communities face systematic destruction driven by what Walhi Papua describes as a three-way alliance of oligarchic capital, state power, and green development rhetoric deployed to legitimise extractive concessions without community consent. This report from Suara Papua covers a February 2026 public discussion in Jayapura where Walhi Papua Executive Director Maikel Primus Peuki and Walhi's institutional head Umbun Wulang framed the Papuan crisis as internal (…)

In the autumn of 2023, the Slovak government of Robert Fico — a nationalist populist coalition — appointed far-right television presenter Martina Šimkovičová as culture minister. Within months she had dismissed the directors of the Slovak National Theatre and the Slovak National Gallery, defunded LGBTQ+ cultural initiatives, moved to dissolve the independent Slovak Arts Council, and replaced it with political appointees. A sustained Cultural Strike — backed by over 1,700 workers from 135 (…)

On International Women's Day, 8 March 2026, the Indonesian Women's Alliance (Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia, API) — a coalition of more than 50 organisations — convened a Women's Stage (Panggung Perempuan), drawing over 500 participants. Testimonies covered abortion access, LBQ workers facing layered discrimination, survivors of domestic violence failed by the state, a political prisoner charged under Indonesia's notorious Electronic Information and Transaction Law, and communities dispossessed (…)

In the aftermath of January 2026's crackdown, voices within and close to the Islamic Republic renewed calls for Iran to complete a nuclear deterrent, claiming the bomb would have prevented the current existential crisis. Houshang Sepehr, exiled Iranian Marxist and editor of Solidarité Socialiste avec les Travailleurs en Iran, challenges this on structural grounds. Drawing on the cases of India, Pakistan, and North Korea, he argues that nuclear deterrence only functions within security (…)