The move effectively legalizes the repopulation of four northern West Bank settlements that Israel evacuated in 2005 under the Oslo Accords . Far-right Minister Smotrich, who spearheaded the initiative, said Israel has authorized 69 new outposts over the past three years
Photo: The ruins of the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, in 2017. Credit: Emil Salman
The Israeli government has finalized the legalization of 19 previously unauthorized settler outposts in the West (…)

In August 2025, the Vice Chairman of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) delivered an extraordinary public statement. Zhao Guoan declared that his organisation—the most powerful ethnic armed group in Southeast Asia, commanding an estimated 30,000 troops equipped with tanks, helicopters, and surface-to-air missiles—faced “the worst survival crisis in 40 years.” The source of this existential pressure was not the Myanmar military. It was China.
Under what Zhao termed “unprecedented” coercion, (…)

This is the text (with sources added) of a December 4 presentation kicking off the third installment of Solidarity's online study group dealing with “Problems of Socialist Organization.”
Russia's revolution of 1917 resulted from the blend of terrible catastrophes and profound hopes. The First World War was going very badly for the Tsar's army and for the Russian people, adding new grievances to old, and generating a new wave of working-class radicalization. The tsarist system of (…)