L'Après soutient Bally Bagayoko, élu maire de Saint-Denis le 21 mars 2026. Son élection a provoqué un déferlement raciste, entraîné par la fachosphère sur X, relayé par les médias racistes, puis par des chaînes d'informations peu rigoureuses. L'abjecte coalition, dont il devenu la victime en quelques heures, repose sur un système médiatique standardisé, centralisé, prêt, en 2026, à déformer les propos d'un homme, à les interpréter et à les entretenir, en raison de sa couleur de peau. (…)

Italy: Sinistra per l'Ucraina (Left for Ukraine) welcome the news of Ukrainian Pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko's release with relief. His detention reveals the contradictions of Ukraine's wartime governance and deepens a question the Italian and European left has long evaded: why does its solidarity with those who resist power in the aggressed country so rarely extend to those who resist power in the aggressor's? Left for Ukraine names names --- imprisoned Russian anti war activists' names --- (…)

In politics I often find myself as the only woman in male spaces. I do not enjoy it. It feels lonely most of the time. Below is one observation about how men operate in political spaces. It is only an observation not a criticism. I was into political work since 2013. I have occupied various political spaces -informal activist groups, reading groups, political discussion groups, political social gatherings, trade union spaces, political party gatherings etc. In all of these spaces, it's (…)

Italy's campist left has not confined its capitulation in the face of Russian imperialism to abstention and rhetoric. As Solidarity Collectives — Ukraine's libertarian antifascist mutual aid network — conducts a fundraising and solidarity tour of Italy, Rifondazione Comunista has called for institutional action to prevent the Bologna event from going ahead, denouncing the Collective's members as fascists. The Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori — a Trotskyist party that broke from Rifondazione (…)

On 20 March 2026, a factory operated by Czech arms company LPP Holding in Pardubice, eastern Bohemia, was set alight in an arson attack. A group calling itself Earthquake Faction claimed responsibility, alleging the facility was connected to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. LPP Holding had signed a cooperation agreement with Elbit Systems on 6 October 2023 — one day before the Hamas attack on Israel — at the Czech embassy in Tel Aviv. LPP now claims the associated drone-production (…)

The Progressive International's research collection For Building the Future, co-authored by Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel, presents China's “whole-process democracy” as a participatory model superior to Western liberal democracy. New Bloom Magazine founding editor Brian Hioe finds the article's central claims self-contradictory: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership consists of capitalists; China's post-revolutionary growth reflects catch-up dynamics from conditions of uneven (…)

Israël impose un blocus hermétique à la bande de Gaza depuis 18 ans et mène depuis 28 mois une guerre génocidaire contre sa population. Durant toutes ces années, des citoyen.nes du monde entier ont tenté de briser ce blocus illégal et d'apporter aux Gazaoui.es solidarité humanitaire et soutien politique. La situation à Gaza est catastrophique : plus de 80 % des infrastructures (maisons, magasins, écoles et universités, hôpitaux et cliniques, structures agricoles, lieux de culte) ont été (…)

Joint Statement by Progressive Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations in ROK and Japan. Progressive political parties and civil society organizations in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan held a joint meeting to discuss the ongoing war in the Middle East and the issue of military participation by East Asian countries. Since February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military attack on Iran, tensions in the Middle East have been escalating (…)

The arrest of Li Daoguo, chief editor of China's best-known neo-Maoist website Utopia (乌有之乡), reveals a structural pattern in Xi Jinping's China: regardless of ideological affiliation, those who expose local power networks end up in prison while those they exposed remain in post. Li had spent years defending village families dispossessed by an illegal quarry linked to a politically well-connected figure. His arrest on charges of 'extortion' less than a week after filing suit against local (…)

Éric Toussaint analyses a fundamental shift in US foreign policy: the reclassification of Russia from existential threat to “persistent but manageable” adversary. Documented in the 2025 National Security Strategy and the 2026 National Defence Strategy, this recalibration is driven by Washington's determination to contain China rather than by any genuine commitment to peace. Toussaint traces extensive ideological convergences between Trump and Putin—authoritarian capitalism, great-power (…)

Rateb Shabo draws a structural parallel between the US-Israeli war on Iran and Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: both campaigns failed for the same reason, attacking a group whose identity is constituted by opposition to the aggressor. Shabo argues that the US-Israeli assault has smothered Iran's popular uprising — begun in December 2025 with the Tehran bazaar strike — not through military success but by enabling the mullah regime to present itself as a force of national resistance. He (…)

Alfons Bech, spokesperson for the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) at the first International Antifascist Conference in Porto Alegre, offers an initial balance sheet of an event ENSU entered with a specific mission: ensuring that the voices of the Ukrainian left and labour movement were heard in a Latin American context where pro-Putin campism remains strong. Bech documents what was achieved — greater coordination among those in the Americas already supporting Ukraine — (…)

Aux États-Unis, huit millions de personnes ont pris part aux 3 300 manifestations « No Kings » contre le président Donald Trump et sa politique, défilant dans les 50 États le samedi 28 mars. J'ai moi-même manifesté avec ma famille à Brooklyn, à New York. Crédit Photo. 28 Mar 2026 Richmond - Probonophoto.org Sammy Braxton-Haney Il s'agissait de la troisième mobilisation de ce type, chacune plus massive que la précédente, démontrant l'ampleur du rejet populaire de la présidence Trump. (…)

Droitisation accélérée, banalisation du racisme et marche à la guerre : l'urgence est de reconstruire des mobilisations unitaires pour imposer une alternative — sans attendre 2027. De manière qui semble irrésistible, la droite et le centre poursuivent leur droitisation. Le RN sort des municipales renforcé dans ses bastions et avec une implantation géographique élargie. L'union des droites est en marche : concrétisée à Nice avec l'élection du fasciste Ciotti, elle apparaît désormais (…)

« Le point commun entre l'Ukraine et l'Iran est la place centrale qu'occupe l'identité nationale dans la consolidation du pouvoir, ou plus précisément, dans le fait que le pouvoir repose sur un socle identitaire qui trouve sa densité et sa cohésion principalement dans la confrontation avec la Russie et les États-Unis, respectivement. » Des Iraniens manifestent à Téhéran contre la guerre américano-israélienne contre leur pays (30/3/2026 Anadolu) Tout comme Vladimir Poutine avait imaginé (…)

Perempuan Mahardhika would like to express our sincere gratitude for the support that ESSF has provided to our struggle against all forms of violence against women. The funding support of €5800 has been used to support campaign activities, grassroots organizing, and community education in response to the shrinking democratic space that disproportionately impacts women. The year 2025 has been a particularly challenging period for us. The increasingly undemocratic and repressive political (…)

Ces notes ne constituent pas encore un bilan définitif, mais seulement des considérations initiales. Seule la collaboration de l'ensemble des camarades qui ont participé et soutenu l'intervention des camarades ukrainiens, à commencer par eux-mêmes, nous permettra d'avoir une vision complète. Nous avons déclaré dans la résolution préparatoire : « L'ENSU a décidé de mener la lutte contre le campisme partout où il y a une opportunité de convaincre des secteurs des syndicats, des partis (…)

A writer talks about the joys of reading the printed word and having to give up his library. Old books (Photo by Vasily Ledovsky via Unsplash) Over the years, as a reader and lover of books, as an academic, as a political activist, and later as a writer of books myself, I have collected thousands of volumes. I acquired many of these books in second-hand stores or on remainder tables. Others came to me as publishers' review copies or sometimes as desk copies for classes I was teaching. (…)

The First International Antifascist Conference, held in Porto Alegre in late March 2026, drew delegations from over forty countries in what was, by any measure, a significant act of left internationalist assembly. Italian trade union and political activist Sergio Bellavita attended and offers an assessment that is candid about both the conference's achievement and its failure. The gathering, he argues, succeeded in mobilising — but failed in analysis, substituting rhetoric for critical (…)

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America. The women destroyed Aracruz Celulose's eucalyptus saplings under the slogan “No to the Green Desert”, in protest against the vast monoculture plantations of eucalyptus. This multinational corporation has impacted (…)

A REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST position on Iran must refuse the false and damaging binary that demands choosing between defending the Islamic Republic and endorsing US-imperialist and Zionist intervention. This is a constructed choice designed to collapse political judgment into campism. It converts solidarity into a competition of moral allegiances and leaves ordinary people, workers, women, youth, and minorities to a reality shaped simultaneously by internal repression as well as external (…)

Pronatalism—the ideology that birth rates are too low and must be raised by implementing policies that get people to have children—has been having a cultural moment in the United States. After decades of a US total fertility rate that was anomalously high compared to peer countries in Europe and East Asia, it finally began to fall in earnest in 2008 and has continued to do so year on year ever since (with the exception of a small rebound after the initial stages of the Covid pandemic). (…)

Joseph Daher analyse la nouvelle guerre d'agression coloniale israélienne contre le Liban en l'inscrivant dans le contexte post-7 octobre 2023, marquée par la guerre génocidaire menée par l'État colonial d'Israël et les ambitions impérialistes de Washington. Avec son allié israélien, ces deux puissances cherchent à imposer leurs dominations hégémoniques sur la région. En même temps, l'auteur examine les dynamiques et contraintes au sein du Hezbollah dans cette guerre, ainsi que les (…)

La Conférence internationale antifasciste vient de se tenir à Porto Alegre. A cette occasion, nous publions ci-dessous l'adresse que nous avons envoyée au comité organisateur de l'évènement afin de leur faire part de nos réserves quant au silence sur le régime de Poutine dans le fascisme contemporain, ainsi qu'à la trop faible considération pour les régimes autoritaires non directement « fascistes » que le néolibéralisme déclinant impose (par exemple la Chine). Nous joignons à cette adresse (…)

Joseph Daher analyzes the expansion of the U.S.-Israel war into Lebanon, its impact on that country and on Iran's ally Hezbollah. The US-Israel war on Iran has already destabilized the wider region. The impacts are being strongly felt in Lebanon, now being subject to a new offensive by Israel. Neither in Iran nor in Lebanon, nor anywhere else, are the United States and its Israeli ally seeking democracy or the well-being of local populations. Rather, they seek to impose, through barbaric (…)

La résistance à la politique nationale et internationale de Donald Trump continue de s'organiser. Nous étions dans le sud de Boston, ce samedi, pour voir et comprendre ce mouvement d'ampleur. L'Iran, la Palestine, Cuba, le Mexique, les politiques migratoires de l'ICE, la désinformation, le démantèlement des politiques de diversité : c'est dans cette saturation médiatique et politique qu'a eu lieu, samedi 28 mars, la troisième grande mobilisation nationale « No Kings » contre la politique (…)