On Saturday, 15 March, some half-a-million people took to the streets of Belgrade. The Serbian capital woke up to the sounds of struggle and resistance, vibrating with determination, and by the afternoon more than 5% of the country's population was protesting in front of the parliament, in downtown Slavia Square, and throughout the surrounding streets and boulevards. It seemed that the fear-mongering of the authoritarian President Aleksandar Vučić just days before the grand “15^th for the 15” (…)

La presse espagnole véhicule généralement l'idée que Die Linke est un parti plutôt modéré. Cette impression est justifiée. En témoigne le fait qu'après le début du génocide à Gaza, une attitude prosioniste détestable - et surprenante pour le public non allemand - a pu être observée parmi nombre de responsables du parti. Le nombre des endroits, aux plans régional et local, où Die Linke participe à des exécutifs avec la social-démocratie, ou le vote récent au Bundesrat (l'équivalent du sénat (…)

Weinberg, a key figure in the Right2Know Campaign, died on 28 January 2025
There is no single person who could be described as the founder of the Right2Know Campaign, but Mark Weinberg, who died of a heart attack on 28 January, came the closest. It was far from his only work, but the near-decade he spent working to build a movement for the free flow of information left its mark on South Africa, on civic space, and certainly on me.
He was involved in left-wing student politics at Wits, (…)

IN JUST A FEW WEEKS, THE SECOND coming of Trump has started to reconfigure the international political architecture that emerged after the Second World War. This has profound implications for countries both in the global North and South. That neofascists have come to power in the US, the most powerful country in the world, makes the chaotic and threatening global situation even more alarming.
Already, South Africa has felt the impact of Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) foreign (…)

Les procureurs ukrainiens ont arrêté des dirigeants des organisations syndicales UkrProfTur et de la Fédération des Syndicats (FPU). Ils sont accusés de corruption dans la vente de biens syndicaux, pour leur propre bénéfice et celui de membres de leur famille, ainsi que de corruption de fonctionnaires pour dissimuler ce comportement illégal. Les allégations concernent des transactions effectuées entre 2016 et 2018.
Ces arrestations interviennent alors que les organisations syndicales, les (…)