As dissent over the Iran war spreads to the political center, demonstrators face crackdowns while opposition lawmakers are still nowhere to be seen. Police officers arrest a demonstrator at a rally against Israel's war with Iran, at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, March 28, 2026. (Flash90) For the past month, I have been gathering with fellow Israeli radical left activists in Tel Aviv's Habima Square to protest the war with Iran. What began as a demonstration of barely 20 people has steadily (…)

Le Hezbollah libanais entre répudiation majoritaire pour sa subordination à l'Iran et regain de légitimité face à une nouvelle occupation du Sud-Liban, manifestement prévue pour le long terme. Jamais une initiative militaire du Hezbollah libanais (littéralement, Parti de Dieu) n'avait été aussi répudiée au Liban que sa décision, le 2 mars, de lancer des roquettes par-dessus la frontière sud du pays avec l'État israélien, en représailles au meurtre du Guide suprême iranien Ali Khamenei. (…)

The Columbia protest leader on Hamas, Zionism and why Jews shouldn't fear a 'free Palestine' Mahmoud Khalil, who was targeted by the Trump administration for his participation in protests against Israel at Columbia University, poses for a portrait at the New York Civil Liberties Union offices in Manhattan. Credit: Melanie Einzig for the Forward Mahmoud Khalil believes misplaced Jewish fear remains a major obstacle to achieving what he and other protesters consider to be the liberation (…)

After Trump's cease-fire, the results of the Iran war are bleak for Israel and Netanyahu: the regime endures, hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium remain, and the missile program is still active. The Hezbollah front in Lebanon continues to rage U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, in December. Credit: Jonathan Ernst/ REUTERS The cease-fire reached before dawn on Wednesday between (…)

Solidarity Collectives (Колективи Солідарності), the Ukrainian anarchist, LGBTQ and transfeminist network engaged in armed resistance to Putin's invasion, is on a solidarity tour of Italy. When Bologna's Làbas social centre agreed to host their event, Rifondazione Comunista (PRC — Communist Refoundation Party) demanded municipal intervention to prevent it. Il manifesto journalist Giuliano Santoro traces the fault lines this controversy exposes within the Italian radical left: between (…)

When US Vice-President J.D. Vance travelled to Budapest to endorse Viktor Orbán ahead of the 2026 Hungarian elections, the ideological logic of the Trump–Orbán alliance came into focus. For American nativist Christian nationalists, Orbán's Hungary is a proof of concept: evidence that a programme combining Christian nationalism, anti-migration politics, and systematic dismantling of democratic opposition can hold power for sixteen years. Jan Bělíček dissects Vance's Budapest speech — its (…)

The 2022 Aragalaya uprising in Sri Lanka toppled a government and amplified mass demands for “system change.” Three years on, with the National People's Power (NPP) coalition in government, women's rights activists ask: change for whom? This policy brief by the Social Scientists' Association (SSA), drawn from conversations with more than 25 feminist activists across the country, maps an intersectional feminist agenda across seven domains: democratic reform and demilitarisation; debt and food (…)

Alina López Hernández is a historian, essayist, and left-wing intellectual from Matanzas, and a member of Cuba's Academy of History. Since March 2023, she has held monthly silent vigils at Matanzas' Liberty Park calling for the release of political prisoners, and has been placed under house arrest and a travel ban. In this interview with El Salto, she offers a rigorous critique of the Cuban government's shift from welfare-state authoritarianism to anti-popular repression under Raúl Castro, (…)

Plus d'un demi-million de Français ont signé la pétition appelant les députés à voter contre la proposition de loi sur les « formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme », portée par la macroniste Caroline Yadan. À gauche, on espère que la mobilisation citoyenne influencera les élus lors de l'examen du texte la semaine prochaine. Il y a quelques jours, le compteur a commencé à s'affoler. Mardi 7 avril après-midi, la barre des 500 000 signatures a été atteinte. Avec ses plus de 2 millions de (…)

The recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy. Palestinians inspect the damage caused during overnight attacks by Israeli settlers near Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, March 30, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90) In recent days, “settler violence” — a sanitized term for attacks carried out by Israelis against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the intention of displacing them (…)

The year 2025 marks one of the most critical periods for the women's and civil society movements in Indonesia. Political dynamics characterized by a shrinking democratic space, rising militarism, and increasing criminalization of activists indicate a regression in the fulfillment of civil and political rights. This situation does not stand alone but is intertwined with rising gender-based violence, policies that do not prioritize women, and weak protections for human rights defenders. (…)

Echo Fortune and Terry Conway report from central London. The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations. Organisers claim it was half a million people – it's difficult to be certain with such a mammoth crowd, but it was over two and a half hours after the front banners left Park Lane before the back did so. Just getting (…)

President Donald Trump's war on Iran is barbarous, cruel, vicious, undertaken and carried out without a bit of concern for the millions of human beings it is affecting in Iran, in the region, and throughout the world. The nature of the war was revealed on the first day, 28 February , when the United States hit a school in Minab and killed an estimated 175 people, 100 of them children. Attacks on civilians are a war crime, all too common a war crime in all modern wars. Now Trump is (…)

The war is fuelling the profits of fossil fuel companies while aggravating the ecological and social crisis. Faced with exploding prices and organized dependence on all oil, it is urgent to impose immediate measures while breaking with fossil capitalism. To go to work, to take the children to school, to visit the doctor to do your shopping... For many, today, the car is not a luxury but a necessity, and each increase in fuel prices eats a little more into already tight budgets. War, a (…)

La guerre alimente les profits des groupes fossiles tout en aggravant la crise écologique et sociale. Face à l'explosion des prix et à la dépendance organisée au tout-pétrole, il est urgent d'imposer des mesures immédiates tout en engageant une rupture avec le capitalisme fossile. Crédit Photo. Charmag Pour aller travailler, accompagner les enfants, se soigner, faire ses courses… pour beaucoup, aujourd'hui, la voiture n'est pas un luxe mais une contrainte, et chaque hausse du carburant (…)