La guerre lancée par les États-Unis et Israël contre l'Iran a entraîné des destructions massives dans l'industrie pétrolière et gazière du golfe Persique. À long terme, cela va faire grimper les prix des matières premières et des produits manufacturés. Les effets inflationnistes qui en découlent touchent particulièrement les couches les plus pauvres de la population. Cela pourrait entraîner en Europe des bouleversements politiques, comme ceux que nous avons déjà connus après la crise du (…)

Response from the Coordination Group of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) to the letter from the Solidaires trade union federation explaining its decision not to attend the Porto Alegre conference and setting out its guiding principles April 23, 2026 To: Julie Ferrua et Murielle Guilbert (Joint Executive Committee of the Union Syndicale Solidaires) Dear comrades, We are writing to you as the coordination group of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (…)

Réponse du groupe de coordination du Réseau européen de solidarité avec l'Ukraine (ENSU) à la lettre de l'Union syndicale Solidaires expliquant sa décision de ne pas participer à la conférence de Porto Alegre et ses principes d'action . 23 avril 2026 À : Julie Ferrua et Murielle Guilbert (co-délégation générale de l'Union Syndicale Solidaires) Nous vous écrivons en tant que groupe de coordination du Réseau européen de solidarité avec l'Ukraine (ENSU) afin d'apporter une réponse (…)

Rapport annuel 2025 de la Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) et de la Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (BKS) présenté à ESSF, en France. 1. INTRODUCTION L'année 2025 a été une période importante de lutte, de consolidation et d'expansion pour la Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) et la Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (BKS). Face à l'aggravation des crises agraires, aux vulnérabilités climatiques et au contrôle croissant exercé par les grands groupes sur l'agriculture, les deux organisations ont (…)

Comment éviter l'effondrement alimentaire lorsqu'un pays vit sous embargo durable et voit ses alliances se fragiliser ? Une étude récente à Cuba met en évidence la réactivation d'une agroécologie déjà mobilisée lors des crises antérieures, aujourd'hui réinvestie sous des formes plus hybrides et décentralisées. Raphaël Belmin, Cirad ; Giraldo Jesús Martín Martín, Universidad de Matanzas ; Ludovic Temple, Cirad, and Paula Fernandes, Cirad Depuis la révolution de 1959, nourrir la (…)

APRIL 16 — IF the war on Iran ended right now, by all accounts it would take many months to stop the ever-greater damage to the world economy, particularly but not exclusively to nations of the Global South and Asia. Repairing energy production and infrastructure in the Gulf is probably the work of years. This is not counting thousands of lives already lost in Iran and Lebanon, and irreplaceable. Following the April 16 announcement of a Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon, the Iranian (…)

Union syndicale Solidaires, a member of the European Network of Solidarity with Ukraine (RESU/ENSU), explains why it did not take part in the anti-fascist international conference held in Porto Alegre in late March 2026 and sets out the conditions under which it could engage in future initiatives. The conference was convened by parties that participate in or support the Lula government (PT, PCdoB, PSOL); neither its appeal nor its eleven plenary sessions mentioned Ukraine or Russia, and the (…)

For the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump's words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion. The debate between the president and the first American-born pope began after Trump said that (…)

Du 26 au 29 mars, environ 4 000 personnes se sont réunies à Porto Alegre pour une grande conférence internationale contre la montée du fascisme dans le monde et contre l'impérialisme.[1]. Christian Zeller soutient que le contenu et les résultats de cette conférence ne suffisent pas pour construire un front antifasciste et anti-impérialiste global. Pour y parvenir, il est indispensable d'engager des processus de clarification politique. La marche d'ouverture a rassemblé environ 7 000 (…)

From 26 to 29 March, around 4,000 people gathered in Porto Alegre for a major international conference against the global rise of fascism and against imperialism.[1] Christian Zeller argues that the content and outcomes of this conference are insufficient to build a comprehensive anti-fascist and anti-imperialist front. To this end, it is essential to initiate processes of political clarification. The opening march attracted around 7,000 people and reminisced about earlier mobilizations of (…)

Fifty years after the 1976 military coup, Argentina has witnessed massive mobilisations, particularly on March 24 this year, which brought together youth, workers, and social movements in one of the most significant political moments in recent years. These protests have unfolded amid deepening economic crisis, growing social unrest, and the controversial policies of the government of Javier Milei. The strong participation of young activists has been especially notable, reflecting a broader (…)

Dirigeant tatar du communisme musulman de la première heure, Mirsaid Sultan Galiev (1892-1940) distingue dans ce texte de décembre 1921 la propagande antireligieuse de la lutte contre la religion, qu'il repousse comme arme missionnariste. Son argumentation rejoint celle de Lénine sur l'islam comme religion d'une nationalité opprimée : il ne peut être affaibli, soutient-il, que par l'exemple vivant, l'élévation culturelle et l'intégration civique des musulmans à la République soviétique. (…)

Writing in the wake of the US–Israeli war on Iran and amid the unravelling of Donald Trump's tariff blitzkrieg, Andrea Ferrario asks whether there are grounds for optimism in the present world conjuncture. His answer is yes, and he builds it in two movements. First, the three great powers are each caught in their own trap: Russia's four-year failure to subjugate Ukraine; Trump's retreat before the economic damage of his tariffs and the Minneapolis popular resistance that forced ICE to (…)

Six months after the October 2025 parliamentary elections brought Andrej Babiš's ANO back to power in coalition with the far-right Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě) and the xenophobic Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), the contours of the new government's euro-trumpist project are becoming visible. Writing in Deník Alarm, Pavel Šplíchal examines what is happening inside the Ministry of the Environment now that the Motorists control it. The dismantling under way --- arbitrary (…)

A hunger strike by Lithuanian television workers outside the broadcasting headquarters occupied by Soviet troops in January 1991 becomes, in Karolis Kaupinis's second feature Hunger Strike Breakfast, an anatomy of selfishness, cowardice and the limits of solidarity. Czech film critic Martin Pleštil contrasts the film works to Jiří Mádl's 2024 Czech blockbuster Vlny (Waves), which turned the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovak Radio into a story of collective heroism. Where Mádl reaches for (…)

La Chambre des représentants indonésienne (DPR) a adopté la loi sur la protection des travailleuses domestiques, au terme d'une campagne de 22 ans menée par le Réseau national de plaidoyer pour les travailleuses domestiques (JALA PRT) et par la Coalition civile pour l'adoption de la loi PPRT, qui rassemble près de mille organisations. La nouvelle loi reconnaît les travailleuses domestiques comme une main-d'œuvre formelle, garantit les horaires, les salaires, les congés, la sécurité sociale (…)

Le 19 avril 2026, l'Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (API, Alliance des femmes indonésiennes), large coalition féministe dont Femmes libres est membre fondatrice, publie ce communiqué d'urgence sur la vague de violences sexuelles révélée dans les principales universités indonésiennes --- dont l'Université d'Indonésie, l'Institut de technologie de Bandung, l'Université Padjajaran et l'Université Budi Luhur --- impliquant étudiants, enseignants et recteurs. L'Alliance relie ces affaires à la (…)

On 21 April — Kartini Day, Indonesia's national day of women's emancipation — the House of Representatives) passed the Domestic Workers Protection Law after a 22-year campaign led by the Jaringan Advokasi Nasional PRT (JALA PRT, National Network for Domestic Worker Advocacy) and a Civil Coalition of roughly one thousand organisations. The new law recognises domestic workers as formal labour, guarantees working hours, wages, leave, social security and vocational training, and imposes (…)

On 19 April 2026, the Aliansi Perempuan Indonesia (Indonesian Women's Alliance), a broad left feminist coalition, issued this emergency press release on the wave of sexual violence cases exposed at Indonesia's leading universities --- including the University of Indonesia, the Bandung Institute of Technology, Padjajaran University and Budi Luhur University --- with perpetrators ranging from students and lecturers to rectors. The Alliance links these cases to the deepening penetration of (…)

Analyste pakistanais et militant, Farooq Sulehria examine le rôle dévolu à Islamabad comme hôte des négociations de paix américano-iraniennes. Il soutient que cette promotion au rang de « puissance moyenne » ne doit rien à une vocation pacifiste : elle découle du caractère de garnison de l'État pakistanais, d'un clientélisme diplomatique forgé pendant la guerre froide et d'un calcul intéressé durant la guerre israélo-américaine contre l'Iran. Sulehria démonte la mise en scène médiatique du « (…)

On 10 April 2026, Cheng Li-wun, chair of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT), met Xi Jinping in Beijing on the fourth day of a six-day trip to China. What distinguishes the encounter is less the fact of the meeting — KMT chairs have met Chinese presidents on previous occasions — than the redefinition of cross-strait doctrine that Cheng proposed and Xi appeared to endorse. Cheng substituted “One China, Oppose Taiwanese Independence” for the older KMT formula of “One China, Respective Interpretations,” (…)

Sébastien Bouchard — a union activist and Québec solidaire militant — revisits the 2001 campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and its legacy. He argues that the 60,000-strong Peoples' March and the continental convergence of social movements helped defeat the FTAA in 2005, but failed to dismantle existing agreements such as NAFTA. The resulting deindustrialisation fed the polarisation that Donald Trump now exploits. Bouchard calls for the revival of an alterglobalist (…)

Québec solidaire activist André Frappier reports on the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, held in Porto Alegre in late March 2026. Attending as the only participant from Quebec, he assesses both the conference's achievements and its political limits — particularly the dominance of campist positions that obscured solidarity with the Ukrainian people and with Russian dissidents, imprisoned or in exile. He credits 'consistent internationalist' comrades (…)

(Lahore) On the call of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, protest demonstrations were organized in more than 100 cities across the country on April 17, International Day of Peasants. Video A tractor March at my home town Toba Tek Singh went on despite police effort to stop it. On the call of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, nationwide protests held on April 17, marking International Day of Peasants At Burewala, police used Lathi charge, beating protestors with wooden sticks (…)