A tragic death as a man is hounded to suicide by a right wing campaign and the British press. What must we learn from it, asks Simon Hannah ? Jason Arday is dead. The 41 year old Black academic from Cambridge was hounded by the British press for the last few weeks with accusations of plagiarism and outlandish stories about his personal life. The nation was gripped, intrigued about it, forgetting there was a human at the centre of it, someone with a life to live. Someone whose only (…)

A statement from Anti*Capitalist Resistance AntiCapitalist Resistance sends our thoughts and solidarity to the family and loved ones of Jason Arday, a Black autistic young man hounded to death. The far right aided and abetted by the media orchestrated a racist witch hunt which has produced the most tragic result. The guns were out for Jason as soon as he became one of Britain's youngest Black professors. The real goal of the right wing press and far right is to suggest that Black (…)

ABRA QUINN WAS a lifelong socialist; she was involved in organizing social movements from anti-apartheid and Central America solidarity to the antiwar movement. She died in her home in San Leandro, California, in October 2025, after a recurrence of endometrial cancer. She is deeply missed. One of Abra's legacies as a socialist is her unique combination of loyalty to loved ones, to a political tradition she knew deeply and to intellectual and interpersonal curiosity. This combination (…)

Le célèbre agriculteur burkinabé, qui vient de mourir, avait créé une forêt en plein désert. En perfectionnant la technique du zaï, il avait permis la naissance d'un écosystème et le retour des villageois. Yacouba Sawadogo (à gauche), agriculteur du Burkina Faso, surnommé « l'homme qui a stoppé le désert », reçoit le Right Livelihood Award lors de la cérémonie de remise des prix Right Livelihood au Musée Vasa de Stockholm, en Suède, le 23 novembre 2018. AFP - MELI PETERSSON ELLAFI Il (…)

L'agriculture témoigne de l'impasse de notre société face à un mur climatique annoncé et d'une brûlante actualité. Pourtant, voilà plus d'un demi-siècle que l'agriculture de la FNSEA est dans le déni et accélère dans le sens de la plus grande pente vers un capitalisme agricole qui met les d'agriculteurs en danger de mort, pas ses actionnaires. Leur « souveraineté alimentaire » n'est qu'un leurre. Le secteur agricole est en train de vivre l'une de ses plus graves crises depuis des (…)

Mina Khanlarzadeh se penche sur l'anti-impérialisme centré sur l'État, l'opposition de droite, les expériences vécues, et explique pourquoi la société iranienne doit être considérée comme une source de pensée politique. Dans un contexte de guerre, de sanctions et de répression, comment la société iranienne peut-elle dépasser un schéma binaire dans lequel, d'un côté, ses souffrances sont considérées comme le prix inévitable de la « résistance » et, de l'autre, ses voix diverses sont (…)

Mina Khanlarzadeh examines state-centered anti-imperialism, the right-wing opposition, lived experience, and why Iranian society should be understood as a producer of political thought. A plume of smoke rises after a strike on Tehran on March 4, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with the killing of Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles at Gulf states and Israel. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) Amid (…)

Ce portrait aux multiples facettes rend un hommage mérité à l'homme qui était derrière l'émission « Voir le voir » John Berger en 2009. Photo : Franck Courtes/CAMERA PRESS/Agence VU Le critique d'art John Berger était encore bien vivant lorsqu'il a fait don de ses archives littéraires – des cartons remplis de lettres et de carnets, de croquis et de manuscrits – à la British Library en 2009. Depuis son domicile dans les Alpes, il a ensuite collaboré avec le conservateur du fonds, Tom (…)

THE UNITED STATES of America marks its 250th anniversary in July 2026 with its multiple divided legacies. As we know, the country was founded in the perpetuation of racial slavery, in genocide of the Indigenous nations, in ambitions of vast colonial dominion — and simultaneously in the struggles against those things, producing contradictions persisting throughout its history. How then will this momentous occasion be remembered? No doubt for the UFC (mixed martial arts) extravaganza on the (…)

Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing' against Palestinians The Israeli army entered Qusra after days of a settler siege on Palestinian homes in the area. Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA Israeli troops have forced two Palestinian families to leave their besieged West Bank homes, the day after a top Israeli commander personally promised he would end a violent settler campaign to drive them out. Israeli soldiers also took over eight other (…)

Q&A: STUDENT ACTIVISM ON American campuses in response to the war in Gaza has become a national debate over where to draw the line between political dissent and antisemitism. Even as many universities have moved to restrict, disperse or discipline protest activity, demonstrations — and the arguments about how to describe them — have continued, raising questions about free speech, campus safety and whether criticism of Israel is being conflated with anti-Jewish hatred. Jewish Voice (…)

Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism ; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels. At the end of 2022, I published an article in this very column entitled : ‘Latin America : The far right is already amongst us'.[[Huella del Sur 16 January 2023 “América latina : la ultraderecha está entre nosotros” : (…)

Cinq ans après la chute de Kaboul et la prise de pouvoir par les talibans, la chercheuse de Human Rights Watch, Fereshta Abbasi, dresse un bilan très sombre du quotidien des Afghans, entre transgression des droits fondamentaux, détention arbitraire, torture et disparitions forcées. Qui se souvient encore de ce mois d'août 2021 durant lequel l'annonce de la chute de Kaboul, puis de la prise de pouvoir par les talibans, avait sonné comme une déflagration à travers le monde ? L'Afghanistan, (…)

Up to 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta late last month, an event which triggered headlines around the world. Among them were people from sub-Saharan countries such as Sudan and Ivory Coast, and they have now gathered on a beach on the north-eastern edge of this Spanish enclave in Africa. Though the authorities are not yet actively trying to expel these migrants, the local temporary reception centre is full and cannot accommodate them. As a result, they are forced to survive in (…)

This multi-layered portrait is a fitting tribute to the man behind Ways of Seeing John Berger in 2009. Photograph: Franck Courtes/CAMERA PRESS/Agence VU The cultural critic John Berger was still alive and kicking when he donated his literary archive – heaped boxes of letters and notepads, sketches and scripts – to the British Library in 2009. From his home in the Alps, he proceeded to liaise with the collection's curator, Tom Overton, sorting each item and recounting the wild stories (…)

Après une série d'arrestations ces derniers mois, les Taïwanais s'inquiètent du sort des libraires indépendants de Hong Kong Une employée de la librairie indépendante « Have a Nice Stay » est emmenée par la police de la sécurité nationale de Hong Kong. Photo : David Chan/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Sortant de l'une des dernières librairies indépendantes de Hong Kong, les mains liées derrière le dos mais la tête haute, la femme portait un t-shirt sur lequel était inscrit un slogan simple : (…)

Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong's independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months An independent bookstore employee is escorted away from 'Have a Nice Stay' independent bookstore by Hong Kong national security police. Photograph: David Chan/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Walking out of one of Hong Kong's last remaining independent bookstores, hands behind her back but head held high, the woman's T-shirt was emblazoned with a simple slogan: “I am a (…)

Delegates attending the Pacific HIV Symposium in Fiji next week will be confronting one of the region's most urgent health challenges: the fastest growing HIV outbreak in the world. HIV prevalence among adults in Fiji is now 1.6%. This means about one in 60 adults lives with the virus. This is likely the tip of the iceberg: just one-third of people living with HIV in Fiji know their status, and only a quarter are receiving treatment. Experts project yearly infections will triple by (…)