Born in Bradford and shaped by northern art-school discipline, David Hockney brought a working-class, almost punk refusal to British art: do the work, trust the eye, do not ask for approval. Hockney made success look effortless: all colour, good humour, great glasses, cigarettes and smoky charm. But for a young gay artist from a northern mill town, nothing about that journey was effortless.
Hockney knew what it was to be judged before he was properly seen. In Britain, class prejudice (…)

Israël a fermé ses frontières aux travailleurs de Cisjordanie après le 7 octobre. Mais poussés par le désespoir, des milliers d'entre eux trouvent le moyen de passer — et la police israélienne continue de leur tirer dessus.
Des Palestiniens utilisent une corde pour escalader la clôture qui sépare la ville d'Al-Ram de Jérusalem-Est, le 12 janvier 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Le mardi 12 mai a commencé comme tant d'autres pour Zakaria Qatousa, un père de quatre enfants âgé de 44 ans (…)

The West Philippine Sea dispute has exposed a fault line within the Philippine left between those who oppose Chinese maritime aggression while accepting US military expansion as a necessary counterweight, and those who reject both. The independent left Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, has drifted toward accommodation with the Marcos administration's strategic alignment with Washington, including the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and US rotational forces. The Partido Lakas ng (…)

Tran To Nga, an 84-year-old Vietnamese-French activist exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, appeared before France's highest court for civil and criminal matters on 16 June 2026, confronting fourteen agrochemical multinationals --- including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical --- that supplied the defoliant to the US military. Two lower courts had previously dismissed her case on grounds of jurisdictional immunity, holding that the companies acted under US government orders and could (…)

Face à des canicules toujours plus précoces, la paléoclimatologue critique un « déni de responsabilité » de la part des politiques et s'inquiète d'une « trumpisation » en France, entre coupes budgétaires et licenciement de scientifiques.
Les prochains jours s'annoncent suffocants. Le 17 juin, 24 départements ont été placés en vigilance jaune canicule par Météo-France, à l'approche de ce qui se dessine comme la toute première vague de chaleur de l'année 2026. Et sa précocité, au même titre (…)

This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed. Against the linear temporality of social-democratic evolutionism, Bensaïd's Lenin is a (…)

La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga a confronté devant la Cour de cassation ses arguments à ceux de 14 firmes agrochimiques qui ont fabriqué l'agent orange durant la guerre du Vietnam. Le jugement sera rendu le 16 septembre.
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Paris, reportage
Elle a tenu parole et n'a rien lâché. La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga avait rendez-vous devant la Cour de cassation de Paris, mardi 16 juin, pour faire face à treize multinationales productrices de l'agent orange utilisé par (…)

The debate over origins is irrelevant to defining the nature of the Zionist regime, which is built on the dispossession and erasure of the Palestinians.
An Israeli soldier ignores a Palestinian woman as he protects a settler grazing cows on agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Susiya, in Masafer Yatta, January 31, 2026. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)
Before October 7, the view that Zionism and the State of Israel constituted a settler-colonial project was a (…)