Every anniversary of Nicaragua's 1979 revolution revives a false choice: either the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship is the legitimate heir of the Sandinista revolution, or the revolution itself led inevitably to today's regime. This piece rejects both claims. It traces the dictatorship's origins not to 1979 but to a cumulative sequence of political failures across four decades: the displacement of the revolution's historic protagonists; the 2000 pact between Ortega's Frente Sandinista de (…)

The Balkan states have different strategies to deak with their peripheral position in the European economy, valuable mainly for what can be extracted from them. Serbia's government survives by playing Moscow, Beijing and Brussels against each other, selling access to its lithium, minerals and arms markets to whichever power will tolerate its rule in return. Albania has tried the opposite path — unconditional compliance with Brussels — and reached the same place: a government prepared to hand (…)

Après neuf années au pouvoir, Emmanuel Macron ne peut plus évoquer l'héritage, il a un bilan. Les catastrophes en cours mettent en lumière l'extrême dénuement de nos services publics, organisé par des années d'austérité budgétaire et de politique dans le seul intérêt du privé. Tout cela à un air de déjà-vu. Comme au moment de la pandémie de covid-19, l'exécutif est une nouvelle fois en guerre. Contre le feu cette fois. « Cette bataille, on va la gagner ensemble », a assuré Emmanuel Macron (…)

Nous, les mouvements internationaux, régionaux et nationaux signataires œuvrant pour la paix, les droits de l'homme, le féminisme, les syndicats, les paysans et les mouvements sociaux à travers l'Asie et dans le monde entier, exprimons notre profonde indignation face aux arrestations arbitraires et au harcèlement continu de la part de l'État dont est victime le camarade Farooq Tariq, leader depuis longtemps d'une coalition paysanne (membre du Comité fédéral du Pakistan Kissan Rabita (…)

Islam Bergerak — Islam in Motion — is one of Indonesia's most significant progressive Muslim platforms, committed to reframing Islamic discourse around questions of emancipation, class, and solidarity rather than identity or electoral positioning. In late 2015 it organised a seminar series together with the Social Movement Institute in Yogyakarta. The left ideas under exploration arrive via academic Marxism, not through organised left parties or social movements, but they reflect an interest (…)

The provisional death toll announced for the tragedy off the coast of Ceuta stands at over sixty, all victims of forced migration. We are not facing a conventional war here, where shells rain down and gunfire rings out, but a daily social war – seemingly silent, yet bloody in its consequences – which claims the lives of the most destitute and drives young people to risk their lives on the very brink of death. The actual number of victims will undoubtedly be higher than that reported. As (…)

Le bilan provisoire annoncé des victimes de la tragédie survenue aux abords de Ceuta dépasse les soixante morts, victimes de l'émigration forcée. Nous ne sommes pas ici face à une guerre conventionnelle où pleuvent les obus et où retentissent les coups de feu, mais face à une guerre sociale quotidienne, silencieuse en apparence, sanglante dans ses conséquences, qui fauche la vie des plus démunis et pousse les jeunes à risquer leur vie aux portes de la mort. Le nombre réel de victimes sera (…)

Ces dernières semaines ont été marquées par une escalade meurtrière de la répression au Jammu-et-Cachemire sous administration pakistanaise. En juin et juillet, les forces armées pakistanaises ont tué au moins 90 personnes. Rien qu'entre le 28 et le 30 juillet, au moins 35 personnes ont été tuées dans la ville de Rawalakot. Cet épisode fait suite à un massacre survenu début juin, lorsque les forces de sécurité ont ouvert le feu sur un sit-in, tuant au moins dix personnes à Rawalakot. (…)

Recent weeks have seen a deadly escalation of repression in Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir. In June and July, the Pakistani armed forced have killed at least 90 people. Only between July 28 to July 30, at least 35 were killed in the city of Rawalakot. This followed a massacre in early June when security forces opened fire on a sit-in, killing at least ten people in Rawalakot. Copyright. Farooq Tariq (Facebook page) This latest round of violence was the response of the Pakistani (…)

Nous publions ici un texte de Monica Baltodano, commandante guérillera de la révolution sandiniste (1979), aujourd'hui exilée et déchue de sa nationalité par la dictature du couple Ortega-Murillo. Le texte original a été publié deux jours avant le 47e anniversaire de la Révolution sandiniste, à l'occasion duquel, Daniel Ortega a annoncé « qu'il n'y aurait plus d'élections au Nicaragua ».[[Daniel Ortega : “Aquí no volverá a haber elecciones” (Daniel Ortega : ici, il n'y aura plus d'élections) (…)

​We—the undersigned international, regional, and national peace, human rights, feminist, trade union, peasant, and social movements across Asia and globally—express our profound outrage at the arbitrary arrests and continued state harassment of veteran peasant leader Comrade Farooq Tariq (Federal Committee Member, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC) and dozens of peaceful human rights, student, and political defenders in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 31, 2026. We acknowledge that Comrade (…)

We strongly condemn the arbitrary arrest and harassment of Comrade Farooq Tariq and dozens of other peaceful protesters outside the Lahore Press Club during a solidarity demonstration with the people of Kashmir. The detention of individuals exercising their fundamental rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression is unacceptable. Although Comrade Farooq Tariq and the other detainees have reportedly been released, their release on the condition that the demonstration would not (…)

The campaign period for the historical first Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Regional Parliamentary Elections scheduled for September 14, 2026, is officially underway. Following multiple election postponements, these polls represent a monumental step toward establishing a genuine democratic mandate for the region's leadership. However, even prior to the formal start of the campaign, our communities have witnessed escalating tensions, a heavy deployment of (…)

The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest of our Federal Committee member, Comrade Farooq Tariq who was detained today in front of the Lahore Press Club while participating in a peaceful solidarity protest with the people of Kashmir. Punjab Police violently dispersed the peaceful gathering, dragging and harassing protesters before forcing them into police vans. Among those arrested are members of Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Khalq Youth Front & (…)

The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history. A mass movement built around economic and democratic demands has been met with curfews, communication blackouts, live ammunition, and collective punishment. The administration in PaJK has once again exposed itself as a puppet of the Pakistani state, implementing policies dictated from Islamabad rather than responding to the democratic aspirations of the people. (…)

Après six années d'organisation de base, une Initiative Législative Populaire, plus de 700 000 signatures et un blocage parlementaire répété, l'Espagne a ouvert en janvier 2026 un processus extraordinaire de régularisation administrative des personnes migrantes. Jusqu'à 500 000 personnes pourraient en bénéficier. Vicky Columba, porte-parole de Regularización.Ya, retrace ce parcours depuis les origines de la plateforme pendant les confinements liés à la pandémie jusqu'à l'approbation du (…)

After six years of grassroots organising, a Popular Legislative Initiative, more than 700,000 signatures and repeated parliamentary blockage, Spain opened an extraordinary administrative regularisation process for migrants in January 2026. Up to 500,000 people may benefit. Vicky Columba, spokesperson for Regularización.Ya, traces that trajectory from the platform's origins during the pandemic lockdowns through to the approval, and sets out what distinguishes this process from Spain's nine (…)

Rédigé la semaine suivant le remaniement gouvernemental ukrainien de juillet 2026, ce court texte soutient que l'attention portée à la personne qui dirigera le ministère de la Défense masque une question plus profonde : pour quel type d'État les Ukrainiens se battent-ils ? Vitaliy Dudin oppose l'empressement de la jeunesse ukrainienne à se mobiliser autour des changements de personnel à sa réticence à s'organiser face à la hausse des tarifs, à la stagnation des salaires et à l'effondrement (…)

Written the week after Ukraine's July 2026 cabinet reshuffle, this short piece argues that public attention to who runs the Ministry of Defence obscures a deeper question: for what kind of state are Ukrainians fighting? Vitaliy Dudin contrasts the readiness of young Ukrainians to mobilise around personnel changes with a reluctance to organise around tariff rises, wage stagnation and the collapse of independent trade unions. He warns against personality politics and calls instead for (…)

The President's [Bongbong Marcos - PBBM] address contained many technical reports, but it failed to meaningfully address the pressing concerns of workers, such as wages, wage reform, jobs, and other labor issues—even as President Marcos acknowledged that workers and the middle class should not be forgotten. [SONA : State of the Nation adress of the President.] The proposed expansion of tax exemptions may benefit above-minimum wage earners, but it provides no relief to minimum wage (…)