Militante indienne des droits des personnes transgenres, artiste de théâtre et autrice, A. Revathi — dite Revathi Amma — a accordé cet entretien à GroundXero en décembre 2025. Publié en avril 2026 sur fond de promulgation par New Delhi de la Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 (Loi de 2026 portant amendement de la Loi sur les personnes transgenres), qui abroge le droit à l'auto-identification consacré par l'arrêt NALSA de 2014, l'entretien parcourt la fragmentation (…)

Indian transgender rights activist, author and theatre practitioner A. Revathi — known as Revathi Amma — spoke to Sudarshana Chakraborty for GroundXero in December 2025. The interview is published in April 2026 against the backdrop of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, which strips the right to self-identification affirmed by the 2014 NALSA judgement. Revathi addresses the fragmentation of the Indian LGBTQIA+ movement, the trap of NGO-driven politics, the (…)

As many as 53 percent of respondents to an poll believe that the public is always or often afraid to discuss politics. The component on the state of freedom was included in the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) survey titled “Evaluation and Public Commitment to [the state ideology] Pancasila”, which was presented by LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan in Cikini, Central Jakarta, on Sunday April 12. Respondents were asked to express their opinions on several questions, one of which was (…)

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism An armed federal agent guards the US–Mexico border, February 4th. Ross D. Franklin/AP On June 3rd, 2024, President Joe Biden announced a policy change with catastrophic implications. Following record-high migration across the United States–Mexico border, he issued a presidential proclamation capping the number of people who were allowed to cross the border to seek asylum. Just four years earlier, (…)

On the April 23, 2026 first phase election in West Bengal. • Smash the Fascist BJP • Resist the Reactionary, Criminal and anti-people TMC • Vote Left to strengthen Class Struggle Our Call We call on all progressive minded people to vote left. No, we do not believe that left always means revolutionary. Nor are we suffering from the delusion that a Left Front government will emerge from this election. But we do not see the reactionary, criminal TMC as a real alternative to the (…)

Le procès en appel de Nicolas Sarkozy révèle aussi l'indignité de l'homme. Les échos du tribunal font remonter à la surface tant de souvenirs pénibles. On espère tellement tourner la page avec le fric, l'égocentrisme, la vulgarité et le racisme qu'il incarne si bien. Depuis le 16 mars, et jusqu'au 3 juin, se déroule le procès en appel de Nicolas Sarkozy, condamné en première instance pour association de malfaiteurs. Dans le fracas des nouvelles, celles qui nous parviennent du palais de (…)

Proposer, provoquer, puis retirer : la séquence est désormais rodée. Avec la proposition de loi Yadan, la majorité présidentielle ajoute un nouvel épisode à une série de reculades qui traduisent moins une stratégie qu'un affaiblissement politique profond. Il y a des retraits qui soulagent. Celui de la proposition de loi Yadan « visant à lutter contre les formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme » en fait partie. Et d'abord parce que ce texte avait profondément inquiété l'opinion, les juristes (…)

Nepal's 5 March 2026 parliamentary elections produced a result without parallel since 1959. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (National Independent Party) of Balendra Shah took 182 of 275 seats, while the two main communist formations together won under ten per cent. Three weeks later, former Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested over the September 2025 crackdown that killed 76 young protesters. Adam Novak and Pierre Rousset analyse a political (…)

Houshang Sepehr argues that the US–Israeli war on Iran has mutated into a transregional, global, crisis. Washington is trapped: it cannot withdraw without the appearance of defeat, yet every extra day widens the political and economic cost. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has turned a regional assault into a shock to world energy markets, trade flows and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cohesion, while Donald Trump's quarrel with European allies over a joint naval mission has (…)

Sushovan Dhar, militant politique et syndicaliste indien du CADTM, analyse la recomposition de l'ordre mondial un an après le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison-Blanche. L'auteur récuse la grille de lecture dominante de la « multipolarité » et propose à la place le concept d'« État charnière » pour saisir le positionnement de l'Inde : ni alignée ni non-alignée, elle tire parti des fractures interimpérialistes sans s'engager durablement. Derrière l'autonomie stratégique revendiquée, Dhar (…)

On 18 March 2026, Israeli aircraft struck Iran's South Pars gas and petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh, the pivot of the country's energy economy. We present three Iranian specialists' responses: historian Peyman Jafari on the strike as a bid to destroy Iran's economic infrastructure rather than change its regime; economist Mahdi Ghodsi on the scale of the looming contraction; and labour activist Jalal Saeedi on how war pushes popular and working-class mobilisations backward. Our (…)

Cette intervention a été faite lors de la table ronde « Antiracisme, féminisme et droits civiques dans la lutte contre le fascisme » dans le cadre de la Première conférence internationale antifasciste pour la souveraineté des peuples, qui a eu lieu à Porto Alegre au Brésil du 26 au 29 mars 2026. Copyright. © Vanda Souto. Visit to an Anacé community in Brazil Depuis le début de ce siècle, nous assistons à la montée de forces autoritaires et théocratiques d'extrême droite qui se (…)

This contribution was made during the panel Anti-racism, Feminism, and Civil Rights in the Struggle Against Fascism at the 1st INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FASCIST CONFERENCE FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLES held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 26th-29th March 2026. Copyright © Vanda Souto. Visit to an Anacé community in Brazil Since the beginning of this century, we have seen the rise of far-right, authoritarian, theocratic forces, which are radicalizing towards fascism if not already fascist. This (…)