The 2022 Aragalaya uprising in Sri Lanka toppled a government and amplified mass demands for “system change.” Three years on, with the National People's Power (NPP) coalition in government, women's rights activists ask: change for whom? This policy brief by the Social Scientists' Association (SSA), drawn from conversations with more than 25 feminist activists across the country, maps an intersectional feminist agenda across seven domains: democratic reform and demilitarisation; debt and food (…)

Alina López Hernández is a historian, essayist, and left-wing intellectual from Matanzas, and a member of Cuba's Academy of History. Since March 2023, she has held monthly silent vigils at Matanzas' Liberty Park calling for the release of political prisoners, and has been placed under house arrest and a travel ban. In this interview with El Salto, she offers a rigorous critique of the Cuban government's shift from welfare-state authoritarianism to anti-popular repression under Raúl Castro, (…)

Plus d'un demi-million de Français ont signé la pétition appelant les députés à voter contre la proposition de loi sur les « formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme », portée par la macroniste Caroline Yadan. À gauche, on espère que la mobilisation citoyenne influencera les élus lors de l'examen du texte la semaine prochaine. Il y a quelques jours, le compteur a commencé à s'affoler. Mardi 7 avril après-midi, la barre des 500 000 signatures a été atteinte. Avec ses plus de 2 millions de (…)

The recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy. Palestinians inspect the damage caused during overnight attacks by Israeli settlers near Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, March 30, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90) In recent days, “settler violence” — a sanitized term for attacks carried out by Israelis against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the intention of displacing them (…)

The year 2025 marks one of the most critical periods for the women's and civil society movements in Indonesia. Political dynamics characterized by a shrinking democratic space, rising militarism, and increasing criminalization of activists indicate a regression in the fulfillment of civil and political rights. This situation does not stand alone but is intertwined with rising gender-based violence, policies that do not prioritize women, and weak protections for human rights defenders. (…)

Echo Fortune and Terry Conway report from central London. The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations. Organisers claim it was half a million people – it's difficult to be certain with such a mammoth crowd, but it was over two and a half hours after the front banners left Park Lane before the back did so. Just getting (…)

President Donald Trump's war on Iran is barbarous, cruel, vicious, undertaken and carried out without a bit of concern for the millions of human beings it is affecting in Iran, in the region, and throughout the world. The nature of the war was revealed on the first day, 28 February , when the United States hit a school in Minab and killed an estimated 175 people, 100 of them children. Attacks on civilians are a war crime, all too common a war crime in all modern wars. Now Trump is (…)

The war is fuelling the profits of fossil fuel companies while aggravating the ecological and social crisis. Faced with exploding prices and organized dependence on all oil, it is urgent to impose immediate measures while breaking with fossil capitalism. To go to work, to take the children to school, to visit the doctor to do your shopping... For many, today, the car is not a luxury but a necessity, and each increase in fuel prices eats a little more into already tight budgets. War, a (…)

La guerre alimente les profits des groupes fossiles tout en aggravant la crise écologique et sociale. Face à l'explosion des prix et à la dépendance organisée au tout-pétrole, il est urgent d'imposer des mesures immédiates tout en engageant une rupture avec le capitalisme fossile. Crédit Photo. Charmag Pour aller travailler, accompagner les enfants, se soigner, faire ses courses… pour beaucoup, aujourd'hui, la voiture n'est pas un luxe mais une contrainte, et chaque hausse du carburant (…)

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran's leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations between the two countries. But the bad blood isn't new: The U.S. and Iran have been in conflict for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the (…)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's conservative evangelical religious beliefs drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. He is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – CREC – whose beliefs have been influenced by a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism. Many CREC leaders call for the implementation of biblical law and a theocratic state structured on Christian patriarchy. Theocratic states are ruled according to religious (…)

The first anti-fascist conference for the sovereignty of peoples was a unique experience, nowhere else on the planet has anything like this been achieved. It represented a broad anti-fascist and anti-imperialist front, going far beyond revolutionary organizations. ⁠Nevertheless, it had limitations, stemming from the difficulties faced by internationalist resistance movements. - Manuel Rodriguez Banchs, Penelope Duggan, Israel Dutra, Antoine Larrache, João Machado, Reymund de Silva and Eric (…)

The Hambantota Managed Elephant Reserve in Sri Lanka's south was won through an 86-day hunger strike by farming communities in 2021. Four years later, solar energy companies are clearing and burning forests within the reserve and its buffer zones, reportedly evading mandatory environmental impact assessments by dividing large projects into smaller units. Environmentalist Sajeewa Chamikara of MONLAR (Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform) alleges that irregular financial (…)

La première conférence antifasciste pour la souveraineté des peuples constitue une expérience unique ; nulle part ailleurs sur la planète une telle initiative n'avait été menée à bien. Elle représente un large front antifasciste et anti-impérialiste, dépassant largement le cadre des organisations révolutionnaires. Elle a néanmoins ses limites, liées aux difficultés rencontrées par les mouvements de résistance internationalistes. - Manuel Rodriguez Banchs, Penelope Duggan, Israel Dutra, (…)

Allusion au fait que l'« Homo Sapiens descend des singes », au « chef de tribu », au « mâle dominant » : sur la chaîne Cnews, Bally Bagayoko, nouveau maire de Saint-Denis, en Seine-Saint-Denis, a été victime de propos racistes. Ce dernier appelle à un grand « rassemblement citoyen » contre le racisme et les discriminations samedi 4 avril. Mais au-delà de ces attaques récentes, il est essentiel d'interroger les stéréotypes qui imprègnent la culture médiatique dominante. Les propos tenus (…)

Les élections municipales qui s'achèvent ont eu une valeur de test avant le prochain scrutin décisif de la collectivité territoriale unique en 2028. Ce fut l'occasion pour les forces en présence de se jauger et de faire émerger de nouvelles têtes. À ce jeu, le camp « loyaliste » fidèle à l'état français conserve son poids, les partis « autonomistes » se sont tous effondrés au premier tour, quand le camp « indépendantiste » incarné par le MDES a réalisé une belle percée qui a marqué les (…)