On 10 April 2026, Cheng Li-wun, chair of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT), met Xi Jinping in Beijing on the fourth day of a six-day trip to China. What distinguishes the encounter is less the fact of the meeting — KMT chairs have met Chinese presidents on previous occasions — than the redefinition of cross-strait doctrine that Cheng proposed and Xi appeared to endorse. Cheng substituted “One China, Oppose Taiwanese Independence” for the older KMT formula of “One China, Respective Interpretations,” (…)

Sébastien Bouchard — a union activist and Québec solidaire militant — revisits the 2001 campaign against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and its legacy. He argues that the 60,000-strong Peoples' March and the continental convergence of social movements helped defeat the FTAA in 2005, but failed to dismantle existing agreements such as NAFTA. The resulting deindustrialisation fed the polarisation that Donald Trump now exploits. Bouchard calls for the revival of an alterglobalist (…)

Québec solidaire activist André Frappier reports on the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, held in Porto Alegre in late March 2026. Attending as the only participant from Quebec, he assesses both the conference's achievements and its political limits — particularly the dominance of campist positions that obscured solidarity with the Ukrainian people and with Russian dissidents, imprisoned or in exile. He credits 'consistent internationalist' comrades (…)