The Hambantota Managed Elephant Reserve in Sri Lanka's south was won through an 86-day hunger strike by farming communities in 2021. Four years later, solar energy companies are clearing and burning forests within the reserve and its buffer zones, reportedly evading mandatory environmental impact assessments by dividing large projects into smaller units. Environmentalist Sajeewa Chamikara of MONLAR (Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform) alleges that irregular financial (…)

La première conférence antifasciste pour la souveraineté des peuples constitue une expérience unique ; nulle part ailleurs sur la planète une telle initiative n'avait été menée à bien. Elle représente un large front antifasciste et anti-impérialiste, dépassant largement le cadre des organisations révolutionnaires. Elle a néanmoins ses limites, liées aux difficultés rencontrées par les mouvements de résistance internationalistes. - Manuel Rodriguez Banchs, Penelope Duggan, Israel Dutra, (…)

Allusion au fait que l'« Homo Sapiens descend des singes », au « chef de tribu », au « mâle dominant » : sur la chaîne Cnews, Bally Bagayoko, nouveau maire de Saint-Denis, en Seine-Saint-Denis, a été victime de propos racistes. Ce dernier appelle à un grand « rassemblement citoyen » contre le racisme et les discriminations samedi 4 avril. Mais au-delà de ces attaques récentes, il est essentiel d'interroger les stéréotypes qui imprègnent la culture médiatique dominante. Les propos tenus (…)

Les élections municipales qui s'achèvent ont eu une valeur de test avant le prochain scrutin décisif de la collectivité territoriale unique en 2028. Ce fut l'occasion pour les forces en présence de se jauger et de faire émerger de nouvelles têtes. À ce jeu, le camp « loyaliste » fidèle à l'état français conserve son poids, les partis « autonomistes » se sont tous effondrés au premier tour, quand le camp « indépendantiste » incarné par le MDES a réalisé une belle percée qui a marqué les (…)

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has accelerated the state's assault on women's rights. In this article, Yekaterina Neroznikova — journalist and coordinator of the Marem crisis group in the North Caucasus — dismantles two central planks of Russian state propaganda: that feminists are to blame for Russia's demographic crisis, and that women are already well-represented in positions of power. Against manipulated official statistics, Neroznikova documents the realities of (…)

A RECENT ARTICLE in Jacobin by Seth Ackerman on “Chinamaxxing” again reveals the usual blind spots of Western leftists. Ackerman discusses the online phenomenon of “Chinamaxxing”–the recent turn of Gen Z teens on social media claiming that they are in a “very Chinese period of their life.” Gen Z teens have taken to mimicking Chinese cultural habits, such as taking off shoes indoors or drinking hot water. For Ackerman, this highlights the “kill line” in the US–that living conditions are (…)

In mid-March 2026, the arrest of six Ukrainians and one American in India on charges related to drone smuggling and arms training in western Myanmar briefly seized international attention before being reduced to a diplomatic incident. What the episode actually reveals is a deepening convergence between Ukraine's resistance and that of Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG). Both movements face the same authoritarian supply network — Russia, China and North Korea arm and sustain the (…)

Vladimir Poutine est au pouvoir en Russie depuis 26 ans, comme président de la fédération de Russie ou président du gouvernement russe. Sa domination a pris des formes de plus en plus autoritaires, particulièrement depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine au début de l'année 2022. Comment caractériser aujourd'hui le poutinisme ? Le chercheur et militant russe Ilya Budraitskis, aujourd'hui en exil, propose ici de penser la dictature poutinienne à partir de la catégorie de fascisme. Après le 24 (…)

La négrophobie — le racisme anti-NoirEs — est la forme de racisme qui engendre le plus de morts, de violence et d'inégalités. Ce sont avant tout des NoirEs qu'on fait mourir aux frontières, qu'on enferme dans des CRA, que la police violente, qu'on assigne à la condition de sans-papiers comme aux emplois les plus pénibles, les plus précaires, les moins bien payés… La négrophobie occupe pourtant une place réduite dans le débat public, parce qu'elle est largement naturalisée. Le discours (…)

The Trump administration is once again threatening to withdraw the US from Nato, citing the reluctance of the alliance to join the Iran war. [An article explaining the value of NATO from the perspective of US power. Editor's note] Following the reluctance of many traditional American allies to become involved in the war against Iran, Donald Trump is once again threatening to withdraw the US from Nato. “They haven't been friends when we needed them,” he said in an interview with Reuters (…)

L'Après soutient Bally Bagayoko, élu maire de Saint-Denis le 21 mars 2026. Son élection a provoqué un déferlement raciste, entraîné par la fachosphère sur X, relayé par les médias racistes, puis par des chaînes d'informations peu rigoureuses. L'abjecte coalition, dont il devenu la victime en quelques heures, repose sur un système médiatique standardisé, centralisé, prêt, en 2026, à déformer les propos d'un homme, à les interpréter et à les entretenir, en raison de sa couleur de peau. (…)

Italy: Sinistra per l'Ucraina (Left for Ukraine) welcome the news of Ukrainian Pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko's release with relief. His detention reveals the contradictions of Ukraine's wartime governance and deepens a question the Italian and European left has long evaded: why does its solidarity with those who resist power in the aggressed country so rarely extend to those who resist power in the aggressor's? Left for Ukraine names names --- imprisoned Russian anti war activists' names --- (…)

In politics I often find myself as the only woman in male spaces. I do not enjoy it. It feels lonely most of the time. Below is one observation about how men operate in political spaces. It is only an observation not a criticism. I was into political work since 2013. I have occupied various political spaces -informal activist groups, reading groups, political discussion groups, political social gatherings, trade union spaces, political party gatherings etc. In all of these spaces, it's (…)

Italy's campist left has not confined its capitulation in the face of Russian imperialism to abstention and rhetoric. As Solidarity Collectives — Ukraine's libertarian antifascist mutual aid network — conducts a fundraising and solidarity tour of Italy, Rifondazione Comunista has called for institutional action to prevent the Bologna event from going ahead, denouncing the Collective's members as fascists. The Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori — a Trotskyist party that broke from Rifondazione (…)

On 20 March 2026, a factory operated by Czech arms company LPP Holding in Pardubice, eastern Bohemia, was set alight in an arson attack. A group calling itself Earthquake Faction claimed responsibility, alleging the facility was connected to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. LPP Holding had signed a cooperation agreement with Elbit Systems on 6 October 2023 — one day before the Hamas attack on Israel — at the Czech embassy in Tel Aviv. LPP now claims the associated drone-production (…)

The Progressive International's research collection For Building the Future, co-authored by Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel, presents China's “whole-process democracy” as a participatory model superior to Western liberal democracy. New Bloom Magazine founding editor Brian Hioe finds the article's central claims self-contradictory: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership consists of capitalists; China's post-revolutionary growth reflects catch-up dynamics from conditions of uneven (…)

Israël impose un blocus hermétique à la bande de Gaza depuis 18 ans et mène depuis 28 mois une guerre génocidaire contre sa population. Durant toutes ces années, des citoyen.nes du monde entier ont tenté de briser ce blocus illégal et d'apporter aux Gazaoui.es solidarité humanitaire et soutien politique. La situation à Gaza est catastrophique : plus de 80 % des infrastructures (maisons, magasins, écoles et universités, hôpitaux et cliniques, structures agricoles, lieux de culte) ont été (…)

Joint Statement by Progressive Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations in ROK and Japan. Progressive political parties and civil society organizations in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan held a joint meeting to discuss the ongoing war in the Middle East and the issue of military participation by East Asian countries. Since February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched a large-scale military attack on Iran, tensions in the Middle East have been escalating (…)

The arrest of Li Daoguo, chief editor of China's best-known neo-Maoist website Utopia (乌有之乡), reveals a structural pattern in Xi Jinping's China: regardless of ideological affiliation, those who expose local power networks end up in prison while those they exposed remain in post. Li had spent years defending village families dispossessed by an illegal quarry linked to a politically well-connected figure. His arrest on charges of 'extortion' less than a week after filing suit against local (…)

Éric Toussaint analyses a fundamental shift in US foreign policy: the reclassification of Russia from existential threat to “persistent but manageable” adversary. Documented in the 2025 National Security Strategy and the 2026 National Defence Strategy, this recalibration is driven by Washington's determination to contain China rather than by any genuine commitment to peace. Toussaint traces extensive ideological convergences between Trump and Putin—authoritarian capitalism, great-power (…)

Rateb Shabo draws a structural parallel between the US-Israeli war on Iran and Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: both campaigns failed for the same reason, attacking a group whose identity is constituted by opposition to the aggressor. Shabo argues that the US-Israeli assault has smothered Iran's popular uprising — begun in December 2025 with the Tehran bazaar strike — not through military success but by enabling the mullah regime to present itself as a force of national resistance. He (…)

Alfons Bech, spokesperson for the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) at the first International Antifascist Conference in Porto Alegre, offers an initial balance sheet of an event ENSU entered with a specific mission: ensuring that the voices of the Ukrainian left and labour movement were heard in a Latin American context where pro-Putin campism remains strong. Bech documents what was achieved — greater coordination among those in the Americas already supporting Ukraine — (…)