Patricio Abinales examines the case of the Filipina-American activist Chantal Anicoche, captured by the Philippine army during an immersion tour in a New People's Army guerrilla zone in Mindoro. Writing from a critical-left position, Abinales argues that the Communist Party of the Philippines' rural insurgency has been steadily weakened over the past two decades by improved counterinsurgency technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the wholesale loss of the second generation of cadres in the (…)

La fin provisoire de la canicule ne doit pas effacer son brutal enseignement : le monde où l'on ne pouvait pas mourir de chaud dans l'un des pays les plus riches du monde ne reviendra plus. Le temps est venu du deuil, de la colère et de l'action.
Enfin la pluie. Et avec elle l'oubli ? Les averses orageuses et les masses d'air plus fraîches qui doivent s'étendre vers l'intérieur du pays pendant le week-end vont aussi faire pleuvoir un sentiment de soulagement et l'envie de tourner la page. (…)

On Sunday, June 14, 2026, pensioners from Shush, Karkheh and Haft-Tappeh, towns in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, again gathered outside the local Social Security office, demanding enforcement of Articles 54 and 96 of the Social Security Law and an end to the deductions taken for what the state calls “supplementary insurance.” According to the labor news agency ILNA, the protest looked much as it had in previous weeks. It was not a new event but the continuation of one that has not (…)