Young Chinese people use a language characteristic of alienation, exploitation and oppression in a society every bit as capitalist as our own. Photo: Higher unemployment, longer hours, fewer prospects, greater cynicism among Chinese young people CREDIT: Wu Hao / WSJ Certain quarters of the internet are filling with content lauding contemporary China as an advanced, anti-imperialist, even socialist society. Its unrivalled high-speed rail network and its continued use of Communist jargon (…)

Knowledge and concern about the climate crisis has grown exponentially in the past 25 years. But not among ultra-conservative and fascist political forces such as Donald Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement in the United States, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Reform UK in Britain. In his infamous United Nations speech a year ago, Trump denounced global heating as the “biggest scam in world history.” Since his re-election, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Accords, (…)

After a scorching and deadly summer for the working classes, the mobilizations for decent, free and democratic education that began in June are back in full force! In June, the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation forced through its reforms to dismantle education: increased working hours for teachers in upper secondary education, increased tuition fees for higher education, and cuts to budgets for school infrastructure (just a few weeks after heat waves that turned classrooms (…)

Après un été caniculaire et meurtrier pour les classes populaires, les mobilisations pour un enseignement digne, gratuit et démocratique entamées en juin reprennent de plus belle ! En juin, le gouvernement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles avait passé en force ses réformes de démantèlement de l'éducation : augmentation du temps de travail des profs dans le secondaire supérieur, augmentation du minerval pour les études supérieures, baisse des budgets pour les infrastructures scolaires (à (…)

The report published in Prothom Alo under the headline “Meeting Between Two Sides in Jeddah” has brought to light the execution of two Bangladeshi citizens, Nazrul Islam and Sweety Akter. According to the accompanying report, although there were allegations of crimes against them, serious questions remain as to whether Bangladesh was properly informed before their sentences were carried out. This incident is not merely a matter of the deaths of two individuals; it demands serious reflection (…)

Razmig Keucheyan, Gilbert Achcar, Michael Löwy and Ugo Palheta argue that revolutionaries must maintain their ‘strategic autonomy' whilst actively contributing to a united front in support of a vote for Mélenchon. In view of the extremely dangerous political situation in France, with a potential victory for the FN/RN in the forthcoming presidential election, discussions are taking place across all organisations and factions on the left regarding the stance to adopt. The revolutionary (…)

At the end of last June, the left and the labour movement in Portugal secured an unlikely victory: the government's proposed labour reform, which would have overhauled the Labour Code from top to bottom, was defeated in parliament. Public pressure was so intense – with two general strikes, dozens of protests and a campaign that rallied the majority of public opinion against the government's violently regressive agenda – that the far right, fearful of the electoral consequences of seeing its (…)

Depuis l'annonce par OpenAI de la démonstration de 372 problèmes mathématiques majeurs, des chercheurs et des chercheuses s'interrogent sur l'avenir de leur profession. D'autres espèrent que cette crise marquera la fin de la course aux résultats et donnera plus de sens à leur travail. « Des autochtones » face à « une occupation par une puissance étrangère ». C'est en ces termes que les mathématiciens Ahmed Abbes (Institut des hautes études scientifiques, IHES) et Haynes Miller (…)

Le piège s'est refermé sur le PS. À force de se dire de gauche sans l'être, le parti qui fut hégémonique à gauche pendant des décennies se range derrière un homme qui n'est même pas des siens, celui-là même qui proclamait en 2019 que le PS devait mourir. Un sabordage. Crédit Photo. Photothèque Rouge / Copyright : Photothèque Rouge/JMB. ​​​​​ Glucksmann remporte la primaire dès le premier tour avec 66 % des voix, contre 14,5 % pour Olivier Faure. Après des décennies de politiques (…)

[En France], les populations d'oiseaux de plaine agricole ont chuté de 30 % depuis une trentaine d'années, l'équivalent de cinq terrains de football par heure est artificialisé, le commerce illégal de faune sauvage est estimé à 20 milliards de dollars par an. Le vivant s'effondre, sous l'effet des pesticides, de l'urbanisation galopante, des activités extractives, du trafic et du réchauffement climatique. Mais depuis 1992, que l'on se rassure ! Les COP « biodiversité » se tiennent, tous (…)