Alors que les groupes extrémistes islamistes de droite gagnent du terrain au Bangladesh, les féministes se battent pour les droits des femmes et l'égalité des sexes, dans un contexte caractérisé par la déception face au gouvernement du Parti nationaliste du Bangladesh Au Bangladesh, des partis comme le Jamaat-e-Islami mettent en avant des responsables féminines pour donner une nouvelle définition de l'égalité des droits dans un cadre islamiste radical – et les féministes doivent relever (…)

For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany's memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. Michael Barenboim at the end of a Make Freedom Ring concert. (Jonas Gottfriedsen) Since October 2023, Michael Barenboim has emerged as one of the few German public figures to speak out persistently against the government's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza — and to name it as such. A violinist and violist, professor at the (…)

Thousands of right-wing activists walked through a closed military zone to the Gaza fence, singing genocidal anthems as soldiers handed out bottled water. The “March of the Thousands” could hardly be called a demonstration or a protest. Those are actions usually taken in opposition to the government, or demanding something from outside of it. But when several thousand right-wing activists marched to the Gaza fence on Sunday, calling for Israel to re-establish settlements in the Strip, they (…)

Au fil des heures, la tragédie de Ceuta prend une ampleur croissante. On parle déjà de plus de 90 morts et ce chiffre va encore augmenter dans les prochaines heures. C'est la première chose que nous tenons à souligner : la cruauté du système frontalier en Afrique du Nord se traduit par la perte de vies humaines parmi les couches les plus démunies et les plus vulnérables de la population mondiale. Face à l'indifférence et à la déshumanisation que ce système nous impose, nous devons affirmer (…)

The labor group Partido Manggagawa (PM), on Monday asked Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona on why he raises high alarm on the inflationary impact of the recently approved P85 increase in daily minimum wage in the National Capital Region (NCR). Eli Remolona Photo from Business World The group said because workers have no grasp of macro-economics, it wants the BSP governor to educate the public on why money in the hands of rich people is not inflationary while (…)

The power rate hike has already eaten one day of the ₱60 wage hike that is yet to be received by minimum wage earners in NCR [National Capital Region]. The power rate hike has already eaten one day of the ₱60 wage hike that is yet to be received by minimum wage earners in NCR. According to Partido Manggagawa (PM), at least ₱74.8 million, from the 1.1 million minimum wage earners in NCR who should receive a ₱60 wage hike this July, will only go to power plant owners because of the (…)

Les Pallopteridae forment une famille de diptères de petites tailles dont l'envergure est comprise entre 3 et 6 mm. Cette famille compte seulement une dizaine d'espèces en France. Les adultes se caractérisent par un pédicelle antennaire qui est clairement encoché. Les larves, selon les espèces, se nourrissent du tissu de plantes ou d'oeufs, de larves ou de nymphes xylophages disposées sous l'écorce d'arbres abattus. Toxoneura muliebris (Harris, 1780), ou Toxonevra muliebris, la (…)

Anand Teltumbde soutient que la démission du ministre indien de l'Éducation de l'Union, Dharmendra Pradhan, en juillet 2026, provoquée par le mouvement de protestation des « Cafards » contre la fraude aux examens, doit son succès en partie au fait que ce mouvement fut délibérément, stratégiquement grossier. Teltumbde interprète la vulgarité du mouvement — des couches envoyées par la poste au bureau d'un ministre, des slogans qu'aucun journal n'aurait pu imprimer — non comme un relâchement du (…)

Anand Teltumbde argues that the resignation of India's Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in July 2026, forced by the “Cockroach” protest movement against examination fraud, succeeded in part because the movement was deliberately, strategically rude. Teltumbde reads the movement's profanity — mock diapers mailed to a minister's office, slogans no newspaper could print — not as a lapse from political seriousness but as its central weapon. Drawing on James C. Scott's distinction (…)

Every anniversary of Nicaragua's 1979 revolution revives a false choice: either the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship is the legitimate heir of the Sandinista revolution, or the revolution itself led inevitably to today's regime. This piece rejects both claims. It traces the dictatorship's origins not to 1979 but to a cumulative sequence of political failures across four decades: the displacement of the revolution's historic protagonists; the 2000 pact between Ortega's Frente Sandinista de (…)

The Balkan states have different strategies to deak with their peripheral position in the European economy, valuable mainly for what can be extracted from them. Serbia's government survives by playing Moscow, Beijing and Brussels against each other, selling access to its lithium, minerals and arms markets to whichever power will tolerate its rule in return. Albania has tried the opposite path — unconditional compliance with Brussels — and reached the same place: a government prepared to hand (…)

Après neuf années au pouvoir, Emmanuel Macron ne peut plus évoquer l'héritage, il a un bilan. Les catastrophes en cours mettent en lumière l'extrême dénuement de nos services publics, organisé par des années d'austérité budgétaire et de politique dans le seul intérêt du privé. Tout cela à un air de déjà-vu. Comme au moment de la pandémie de covid-19, l'exécutif est une nouvelle fois en guerre. Contre le feu cette fois. « Cette bataille, on va la gagner ensemble », a assuré Emmanuel Macron (…)

Nous, les mouvements internationaux, régionaux et nationaux signataires œuvrant pour la paix, les droits de l'homme, le féminisme, les syndicats, les paysans et les mouvements sociaux à travers l'Asie et dans le monde entier, exprimons notre profonde indignation face aux arrestations arbitraires et au harcèlement continu de la part de l'État dont est victime le camarade Farooq Tariq, leader depuis longtemps d'une coalition paysanne (membre du Comité fédéral du Pakistan Kissan Rabita (…)

Islam Bergerak — Islam in Motion — is one of Indonesia's most significant progressive Muslim platforms, committed to reframing Islamic discourse around questions of emancipation, class, and solidarity rather than identity or electoral positioning. In late 2015 it organised a seminar series together with the Social Movement Institute in Yogyakarta. The left ideas under exploration arrive via academic Marxism, not through organised left parties or social movements, but they reflect an interest (…)

The provisional death toll announced for the tragedy off the coast of Ceuta stands at over sixty, all victims of forced migration. We are not facing a conventional war here, where shells rain down and gunfire rings out, but a daily social war – seemingly silent, yet bloody in its consequences – which claims the lives of the most destitute and drives young people to risk their lives on the very brink of death. The actual number of victims will undoubtedly be higher than that reported. As (…)

Le bilan provisoire annoncé des victimes de la tragédie survenue aux abords de Ceuta dépasse les soixante morts, victimes de l'émigration forcée. Nous ne sommes pas ici face à une guerre conventionnelle où pleuvent les obus et où retentissent les coups de feu, mais face à une guerre sociale quotidienne, silencieuse en apparence, sanglante dans ses conséquences, qui fauche la vie des plus démunis et pousse les jeunes à risquer leur vie aux portes de la mort. Le nombre réel de victimes sera (…)

Ces dernières semaines ont été marquées par une escalade meurtrière de la répression au Jammu-et-Cachemire sous administration pakistanaise. En juin et juillet, les forces armées pakistanaises ont tué au moins 90 personnes. Rien qu'entre le 28 et le 30 juillet, au moins 35 personnes ont été tuées dans la ville de Rawalakot. Cet épisode fait suite à un massacre survenu début juin, lorsque les forces de sécurité ont ouvert le feu sur un sit-in, tuant au moins dix personnes à Rawalakot. (…)

Recent weeks have seen a deadly escalation of repression in Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir. In June and July, the Pakistani armed forced have killed at least 90 people. Only between July 28 to July 30, at least 35 were killed in the city of Rawalakot. This followed a massacre in early June when security forces opened fire on a sit-in, killing at least ten people in Rawalakot. Copyright. Farooq Tariq (Facebook page) This latest round of violence was the response of the Pakistani (…)

Nous publions ici un texte de Monica Baltodano, commandante guérillera de la révolution sandiniste (1979), aujourd'hui exilée et déchue de sa nationalité par la dictature du couple Ortega-Murillo. Le texte original a été publié deux jours avant le 47e anniversaire de la Révolution sandiniste, à l'occasion duquel, Daniel Ortega a annoncé « qu'il n'y aurait plus d'élections au Nicaragua ».[[Daniel Ortega : “Aquí no volverá a haber elecciones” (Daniel Ortega : ici, il n'y aura plus d'élections) (…)

​We—the undersigned international, regional, and national peace, human rights, feminist, trade union, peasant, and social movements across Asia and globally—express our profound outrage at the arbitrary arrests and continued state harassment of veteran peasant leader Comrade Farooq Tariq (Federal Committee Member, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC) and dozens of peaceful human rights, student, and political defenders in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 31, 2026. We acknowledge that Comrade (…)

We strongly condemn the arbitrary arrest and harassment of Comrade Farooq Tariq and dozens of other peaceful protesters outside the Lahore Press Club during a solidarity demonstration with the people of Kashmir. The detention of individuals exercising their fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression is unacceptable. Although Comrade Farooq Tariq and the other detainees have reportedly been released, their release on the condition that the demonstration would not (…)

The campaign period for the historical first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Regional Parliamentary Elections scheduled for September 14, 2026, is officially underway. Following multiple election postponements, these polls represent a monumental step toward establishing a genuine democratic mandate for the region's leadership. However, even prior to the formal start of the campaign, our communities have witnessed escalating tensions, a heavy deployment of (…)

The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest of our Federal Committee member, Comrade Farooq Tariq who was detained today in front of the Lahore Press Club while participating in a peaceful solidarity protest with the people of Kashmir. Punjab Police violently dispersed the peaceful gathering, dragging and harassing protesters before forcing them into police vans. Among those arrested are members of Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Khalq Youth Front & (…)

The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history. A mass movement built around economic and democratic demands has been met with curfews, communication blackouts, live ammunition, and collective punishment. The administration in PaJK has once again exposed itself as a puppet of the Pakistani state, implementing policies dictated from Islamabad rather than responding to the democratic aspirations of the people. (…)