Lahore, Pakistan — The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC), a nationwide alliance of peasant, tenant farmer, small-scale farmer, and agrarian worker organizations, will convene its 4th Federal Congress on 3–4 January 2026 in Lahore. The congress will bring together 5 delegates of each 34 member organisations of PKRC to Lahore. It will elect its new leadership and office bearers. The Congress is being held at a moment of intensifying political, economic, agrarian, and ecological (…)

Portugal's minority right-wing conservative government (Democratic Alliance) planned to survive thanks to the parliamentary support, alternately, of the Socialists (PS) or the far right. It succeeded in getting the general state budget for 2026 adopted thanks to the abstention of the PS and then intended to pass a set of new employment laws with the complicity of Chega (far right). However, the general strike of 11 December has plunged this project into uncertainty. A violent attack on (…)

Le gouvernement minoritaire de droite conservatrice (Alliance démocratique) prévoyait de survivre grâce au soutien parlementaire, alternativement, des socialistes ou de l'extrême droite. Il a réussi à faire adopter le budget général de l'État pour 2026 grâce à l'abstention du PS et entendait désormais faire passer un ensemble de nouvelles lois sur le travail avec la complicité de Chega (extrême droite). Cependant, la grève générale du 11 décembre a plongé ce projet dans l'incertitude. Une (…)