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. (…)