On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution qualifying transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Frédéric Thomas examines the stark North-South divide the vote revealed: 123 Southern states backed the Ghana-led initiative, while Western countries abstained and only the United States, Israel and Argentina voted against. He argues that European hostility reflects not genuine concern about hierarchies of atrocity but resistance to the reparatory justice (…)

Dans cet entretien avec Jacobin, le militant socialiste et syndicaliste ukrainien Artem Tidva s'entretient avec Erik Helgeson, vice-président national du Syndicat suédois des dockers, sur le boycott des navires russes en 2022 et sur le blocus du commerce militaire israélien en 2025. Helgeson décrit comment des initiatives de la base dans de petits ports du sud se sont transformées en action nationale validée par référendum, la pression juridique et politique exercée par les employeurs, et (…)

Ukrainian socialist and trade unionist Artem Tidva speaks with Erik Helgeson, Deputy National Chair of the Swedish Dockworkers' Union, on the Swedish dockers' 2022 boycott of Russian shipping and their 2025 blockade of Israeli military trade. Helgeson describes how rank-and-file initiatives in small southern ports escalated into nationwide action endorsed by union referendum, the legal and political pressure deployed by employers, and his own dismissal for participating in the Israel action. (…)

La militante marxiste-féministe indienne Kavita Krishnan tire six leçons de la défaite électorale de Viktor Orbán le 12 avril 2026, à l'intention d'un lectorat international et, surtout, de l'Inde de Narendra Modi. Elle soutient que les démocraties illibérales peuvent être renversées dans les urnes ; que les obituaires de la démocratie universelle sont prématurés ; que l'Ukraine a remporté le scrutin hongrois ; que les accusations d'ingérence sont des aveux ; que la chute d'Orbán est aussi (…)

Writing in The Hindu after Viktor Orbán's 12 April 2026 electoral defeat, Indian Marxist-feminist Kavita Krishnan draws six lessons for an international readership and, above all, for India under Narendra Modi. She argues that illiberal democracies can be ousted at the ballot box; that obituaries for universal democracy are premature; that Ukraine won the Hungarian vote; that regime-change accusations are confessions; that Orbán's fall is a defeat for Xi Jinping as well as Donald Trump, (…)

Two leading members of Anticapitalistas reflect on the challenges facing the left today. 1.Where Have We Come From? Almost eight years have passed since Pedro Sánchez's PSOE government came to power, first alone and, from 2020 onwards, in coalition with Unidas Podemos (Podemos, IU, Comunes) until 2023 and with Sumar (IU, Comunes, Movimiento Sumar) from then on. This period, practically two full legislative terms, is more than enough to make an accurate assessment of what the progressive (…)

A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims. People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) Tomorrow, for the first time since I immigrated to Israel at the age of nine, I will not stand for the siren on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Across the country, a two-minute siren rings out (…)

The people of the United States are demonstrating a growing dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump's administration and in particular with his war on Iran. While most Republicans continue to back the president, some in the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement oppose the war. Various Democrats and MAGA influencers have called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office because he's mentally unstable. Wartime presidents have historically risen in the (…)