The year 2025 has come to a close, testing our endurance. It demonstrated that Sotsialnyi Rukh remained an organisation that, during difficult times for Ukraine, consistently defended the interests of workers, veterans and internally displaced persons (IDPs), whilst also supporting military personnel. We did not merely react to the challenges of war and economic crisis; we emphasised the possibility of an alternative path for Ukraine's development, where people, their safety, rights and (…)

Brigitte Bardot, who died on Sunday at her home in Saint-Tropez at the age of 91, was French cinema's first “superstar”, once regarded as an icon of women's liberation in conservative, pre-May 1968 France. Despite having an influence in the modernisation of French society, she would reject the feminist cause and took up that of animal rights after she left acting in 1973, and became close to the far-right in her later years. To better understand Bardot's chequered life, Mediapart turned to (…)

« Comment les travailleurs peuvent-ils surmonter leurs doutes quant à l'efficacité de l'action collective ? Le mouvement syndical peut-il convaincre et mobiliser les millions de travailleuses et travailleurs non organisé·e·s de se battre pour des revendications reconnues comme légitimes telles que l'augmentation des salaires et la création d'emplois stables ? La question reste posée au mouvement syndical. » Vingt-trois tempêtes ont frappé le pays en 2025, dont le typhon Kalmaegi a été le (…)