Simon Pirani, British energy researcher, historian and author of the People and Nature blog, offers a sharp self-criticism of the European left's failure to engage seriously with the political and military questions posed by Russia's war, now in its fourth year. Acknowledging small steps in labour movement solidarity, he argues the deeper failure lies in the absence of genuine discussion about the war's transformation of European politics. Drawing on Ukrainian socialist voices — Taras (…)

Papua's forests and indigenous communities face systematic destruction driven by what Walhi Papua describes as a three-way alliance of oligarchic capital, state power, and green development rhetoric deployed to legitimise extractive concessions without community consent. This report from Suara Papua covers a February 2026 public discussion in Jayapura where Walhi Papua Executive Director Maikel Primus Peuki and Walhi's institutional head Umbun Wulang framed the Papuan crisis as internal (…)

In the autumn of 2023, the Slovak government of Robert Fico — a nationalist populist coalition — appointed far-right television presenter Martina Šimkovičová as culture minister. Within months she had dismissed the directors of the Slovak National Theatre and the Slovak National Gallery, defunded LGBTQ+ cultural initiatives, moved to dissolve the independent Slovak Arts Council, and replaced it with political appointees. A sustained Cultural Strike — backed by over 1,700 workers from 135 (…)