“The blood and flour can be seen in a photograph from Gaza that was published this weekend: It shows a mangled corpse with flour scattered over it mixed with the blood on the body into a horrific, pink-hued paste. The face of the deceased is covered with a tattered jacket; he was one of dozens who were killed at the food distribution center in Gaza that the Israel Defense Forces turned into another death zone.”
Israeli tanks taking position next to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid (…)

Sri Lanka's latest anti-corruption crusade promises to cleanse the state of venality, yet mirrors the same neoliberal prescriptions that created the crisis in the first place. The IMF's governance diagnostic, echoed by liberal NGOs and now the National People's Power government, treats corruption as a technical problem requiring institutional fixes—conveniently ignoring how structural adjustment programmes systematically dismantle state capacity whilst enriching private capital. This (…)

On the margins of official institutions, independent sociologist and community blogger Vitalie Sprînceană applies himself to thinking about the world that was and the one that is coming. Against all odds: a certified minority, but a putative spearhead.
Chișinău (Moldova)– The visitor from the western part of the Old Continent struggles to find a left-wing conscience in “the other Europe,” that is, the former people's democracies beyond the former Iron Curtain. And for good reason, since (…)

Since 12 May, healthcare staff at the country's various hospitals have been on strike. Among the dozen or so demands put forward, the question of remuneration features prominently. The demand is to reach the standard of East African countries, namely $1,000 salary per month. Added to this are working hours in line with WHO (World Health Organisation) recommendations—45 hours with payment for overtime—transport and accommodation allowances, danger money, and free medical care for (…)

INDOLEFT : Vingt-sept ans après la chute de Suharto, l'Union des Pauvres d'Indonésie (SPRI) soutient que les promesses démocratiques ont été détournées par les oligarques et les propriétaires de capitaux qui continuent de dominer par le biais de partis politiques cooptés et d'institutions étatiques. Dans ce manifeste traduit d'une discussion publique de mai 2025, les militants de SPRI plaident de manière urgente pour la construction d'un nouveau parti politique « né du sein de la lutte (…)