As I write this post, Iran is experiencing its twelfth day of protests. This present cycle of unrest was ignited on December 28, 2025, by a group of merchants in Tehran expressing their dissatisfaction with the plummeting value of the country's currency. As a point of reference, Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar in 2015, and today it's hovering around 1,470,000 per dollar. That's a 4,494-percent increase in a decade. This sharp plunge has put particular pressure on (…)

We reproduce here a portion of the second chapter of Zbigniew M. Kowalewski's work, Révolutions ukrainiennes, 1917-1919 & 2014, which presents the historical characteristics of Russian imperialism. We have not reproduced its original footnotes. This fundamental book was released in Paris in September 2025. It is the product of several decades of research by the author on the missed encounter between the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions of the early twentieth century, as well as on the (…)

1. Chronicle of an Announced Attack THE UNITED STATES' military intervention against Venezuela, culminating in Nicolás Maduro's kidnapping on January 3, 2026, has been in preparation for a long time. In an article published in February 2019, entitled “Donald Trump, the End of Globalism, and the Crisis in Venezuela,”(1) I argued that the then-president revealed with unprecedented candor the true objectives of U.S. imperialism: not the defense of democracy or human rights, nor the (…)

Depuis plusieurs jours les quartiers à majorité kurde de Sheikh Massoud, et Ashrafieh à Alep sont assiégés par des brigades de djihadistes intégrées à l'armée syrienne. Déjà soumis à un blocus, les populations civiles subissent désormais des bombardements. On compte déjà une dizaine de morts civils, dont des enfants. Les pénuries d'eau, d'électricité et de produits de premières nécessités annoncent une catastrophe humanitaire. Ces attaques se déroulent alors que les négociations pour (…)

Le Forum social Maghreb suit avec une vive inquiétude l'escalade de la répression politique en Tunisie, caractérisée par l'emprisonnement de dirigeants politiques, de journalistes, d'avocats, de syndicalistes et de militants de la société civile. Il suit également la détérioration de l'état de santé de plusieurs prisonniers politiques et prisonniers d'opinion dans les prisons tunisiennes, notamment l'avocat et militant des droits humains Ayachi Hammami, l'ancien juge administratif Ahmed (…)

Les plateformes numériques et l'hypercommunication ont trahi la promesse originelle d'Internet : celle d'un espace voué au débat public. Dans cette distorsion, l'accroissement des libertés s'est accompagné d'un contrôle toujours plus strict. Daniel Borges analyse ces enjeux en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Jürgen Habermas et Nancy Fraser. Sur Internet, où rien ne disparaît, les échanges se font de plus en plus éphémères. En quelques minutes, un tweet devient obsolète, une vidéo ne (…)

We are in the 102nd week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign, while the execution government of Iran, over the past year (2025), has hanged more than 2,200 of our fellow citizens on the gallows. The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has entered its one hundred and second consecutive week, spanning 55 prisons across Iran, at a time marked by an unprecedented rise in executions during 2025. This escalation includes the issuance of death sentences against political prisoners—among (…)

The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic minorities. The latest wave of protests in Iran started on December 28, 2025 with a strike by Tehran bazar merchants/shopkeepers against the decline of the currency value and nationwide economic collapse. As of January 8, the Iranian human rights organization, HARANA reports that 285 protests have taken place in 92 cities in 27 of Iran's 31 states. At least 36 people (…)

During recent months we have insisted that the purpose of the Trump administration was political, economic and military control of petroleum, Venezuela's mineral riches and the handling of population behavioural data to establish a predictive control regime over the country, for which the installation of US military bases in Bolívar's homeland was on the horizon. But we fell short in thinking that to achieve this the United States merely needed to place María Corina Machado (MCM) and Edmundo (…)

Nous lançons notre appel annuel pour le Fonds de solidarité Asie 2026.[Appel initialement lancé le 24 novembre 2025.] Nous sommes confrontés à une spirale mortelle de crises combinées (la « ) »), à laquelle les pouvoirs politiques et économiques établis n'apportent aucune réponse. La pauvreté et l'insécurité généralisée continuent de se répandre. Cependant, ces derniers mois, face aux catastrophes humanitaires, les mouvements de contestation ont pris une nouvelle dimension, avec des (…)

We launched our financial campaign on 24 November to replenish ESSF's permanent Solidarity Fund, which should enable us to begin 2026 in good conditions. The response to this appeal has been very encouraging. To date, we have received €24,600 in donations, whilst some French cheques have not yet been cashed and international donations of at least €2,400 are still expected. We wanted to thank donors without delay, but we shall provide a more complete update during January. This amount is (…)

Nous avons lancé le 24 novembre dernier notre campagne financière pour abonder le Fonds de solidarité permanent d'ESSF qui doit nous permettre d'engager l'année 2026 dans de bonnes conditions. La réponse à cet appel s'est révélée très encourageante. Nous avons, à ce jour, reçu pour 24.600 € de dons alors que quelques chèques « français » n'ont pas encore pu être encaissés, que des dons internationaux sont attendus pour, au minimum, 2.400 €. Nous tenions à remercier donatrices et (…)

How can we explain the gap between the modest mobilisation in France and that of other countries in support of Palestinians? The violent divisions within the left have severely hampered mobilisation. September 2025: for the first time, the Vuelta did not complete its course. The Spanish cycling race was interrupted numerous times, and on the final Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Madrileños marched through the streets of the capital. They prevented the race from finishing normally; Prime (…)