A series of regressive laws and even more regressive announcements over the past 365 days have caused mass mobilisation of dissatisfied citizens. Is the generally accepted pessimism justified, and should space be opened for more radical manifestations of the people's will, or is protest a successful tool for change? “In representative parliamentary democracies of capitalist parliamentarism, protest as a practice has been reduced to the level of a mere symbolic civic gesture that the ruling (…)

How is climate change transforming Arctic ecosystems? What does the Arctic mean in geopolitical terms? How do colonial narratives shape the way we perceive it? How has Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine reshaped international cooperation in the Arctic? What is now at risk in climate monitoring and environmental research? Researcher Vitaly Zemlyansky discusses these questions in depth. — What kind of research do you do? — I'm a biogeographer, and I study Arctic biodiversity. My main (…)

Les COP échouent année après année, dans les grandes largeurs. Est-ce une fatalité ? Le collectif des Scientifiques en Rébellion pense au contraire que c'est une faillite de la démocratie représentative, qui convie les loups pour garder la bergerie, et qu'il pourrait en être autrement. Un énième constat d'échec La COP 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 se solde par un constat d'échec. La concentration en dioxyde de carbone est cette année de 407 409 411 414 416 418 421 424 ppm, en constante (…)

Hans Christian Andersen is one of Denmark's most cherished writers – a master of the literary fairy tale whose influence stretches far beyond The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes and the other classics many of us first encounter in childhood. Hans Christian Andersen is one of Denmark's most cherished writers – a master of the literary fairy tale whose influence stretches far beyond The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes and the other classics many of us first encounter in (…)

The Arctic landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate. In addition to rising temperatures, climate change is causing episodes of extreme melting, which occurs when ice losses that previously took weeks or months occur over just a few days. These increasingly frequent events are altering the normal dynamics of ice loss. They are profoundly changing the state of snow and ice, which are the most vulnerable elements of the polar climate system. Snow accumulation during winter no longer (…)

Despite a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and negotiations in Qatar with the AFC-M23 rebellion, the latter continues its military operations in the eastern DRC. But the United States is involved in resolving the conflict, not without self-interest. Whilst the Washington agreement was signed with great fanfare on 4 December, the politico-military rebellion of the AFC (Alliance fleuve Congo, Congo River Alliance)-M23 made a fresh advance in South Kivu (…)

WITH THE SECOND round of the Chilean election, José Antonio Kast won a decisive victory over the progressive candidate Jeanette Jara (58% to 42%). When Kast is sworn in as president on March 11, he will be the first far right-wing president since 1990. José Antonio Kast, the far-right candidate won decisvely against Jeanette Jara. Kast's surprising victory speech hit a moderate tone calling for national unity, avoiding attacks on political opponents and even praising Jara for “her (…)

HISTORIAN VAN GOSSE writes: “The many forms of despotism crowding in around us… represent a fundamental counter-revolution whose only counterpart would be the decades-long ‘Redemption' that overturned Reconstruction's biracial democracy in the former Confederacy and locked in White Supremacy for three-quarters of a century.” (“Red Scares — and a Blue Scare? A Brief History of Repression in the United States”) That specter of enormous rollbacks in the long struggle for racial justice will (…)

We, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India), condemn in the strongest terms the current wave of communal violence, religious fundamentalism, and attacks on democratic and secular spaces in South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh, and the dangerous political repercussions these developments are producing in India. The overthrow of Sheikh Hasina's government emerged from the quota reform movement, which itself reflected deeper structural crises in (…)

La production culturelle de l'année écoulée en Asie a été marquée par des actes de récupération et de résistance. Écrivains, cinéastes et musiciens ont exhumé des histoires supprimées, documenté la répression contemporaine et affirmé les enjeux politiques de la pratique esthétique. D'un recueil de nouvelles en kannada devenu le premier traduit de cette langue à remporter le Booker Prize International, à un cinéaste shanghaïen condamné à la prison pour avoir documenté les manifestations du (…)

The past year's cultural production across Asia has been marked by acts of recovery and resistance. Writers, filmmakers and musicians have excavated suppressed histories, documented contemporary repression, and insisted on the political stakes of aesthetic practice. From a Kannada short story collection that became the first translated from that language to win the International Booker Prize, to a Shanghai filmmaker sentenced to prison for documenting the White Paper protests, these works (…)

L'aragalaya (mouvement de protestation) sri-lankais de 2022 a créé un espace sans précédent pour l'activisme féministe de gauche autour du travail et de la justice économique. Cet article examine trois aspects négligés : les ouvrières des usines d'exportation contestant l'exploitation, les femmes rurales luttant contre la microfinance prédatrice, et l'analyse féministe des impacts genrés de la crise économique. Les auteures soutiennent que les militantes féministes ont délibérément créé un (…)

The 2022 Sri Lankan aragalaya (struggle) movement created unprecedented space for left feminist activism around labour and economic justice. This article examines three overlooked strands: women export factory workers challenging exploitation, rural women fighting predatory microfinance, and feminist analysis of the economic crisis's gendered impacts. The authors argue that feminist activists deliberately carved out space within the broader movement, forging new alliances and giving their (…)

Les troubles qui ont suivi la mort de Sharif Osman Hadi étaient en germe depuis 18 mois : une révolution inachevée, une justice sélective et la tolérance de la violence de rue ont progressivement déstabilisé le Bangladesh. ---- « LUTTE TOTALE. » C'était le titre qu'avait imprimé Matiur Rahman le 25 mars 1971. À l'époque, Mati, qui dirige aujourd'hui le quotidien bangladais le plus lu, Prothom Alo, était rédacteur en chef d'Ekota, l'organe officiel du Communist Party of East Pakistan (…)

Le Parti communiste des Philippines (Communist Party of the Philippines, CPP) [1] exerçait un contrôle strict sur la culture révolutionnaire pendant la dictature de Marcos. [2] Les chansons officielles étaient sérieuses, motivantes, maoïstes dans leur tonalité — écrites pour renforcer l'engagement envers la cause. Mais les cadres composaient et chantaient aussi des chansonnettes officieuses que les gardiens de la culture du parti n'ont jamais approuvées. Distinguées par leur ironie et leur (…)

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) [1] maintained strict control over revolutionary culture during the Marcos dictatorship. [2] Official songs were serious, motivational, Maoist in tone—written to bolster commitment to the cause. But cadres also composed and sang unofficial ditties that the guardians of party culture never approved. Distinguished by their irony and irreverence, these songs mocked both the regime and the party's own strictures. LAKBAYAN: Voices of Resistance from (…)

Alors que le gouvernement de coalition LDP-JIP s'efforce de mettre en œuvre un programme de droite, comment les forces de gauche doivent-elles lutter contre lui ? Environ deux mois se sont écoulés depuis que le président du LDP (Parti libéral démocrate), Takaichi, est devenu Premier ministre avec le soutien sans participation du Parti japonais de l'innovation (JIP), formant ainsi le gouvernement Takaichi. Durant cette période, les orientations adoptées par le gouvernement se sont (…)

A wonderful tribute by Kumudini Samuel honouring the memory and legacy of comrade Samanmali, that also recuperates some memory of the Trotskyists in the Ceylon Mercantile Union who went on to form the Revolutionary Marxist Party. [BS] ---- Photo credit: B. Skanthakumar (January 2014) H. I. Samanmali ('Saman') passed away on 11 November, after withstanding years of illness with quiet strength. For those who worked alongside her, her loss is both professional and deeply personal. As a (…)

Dans cet essai, l'historien Vadym Ilyin, basé à Kharkiv, propose une critique de gauche de la politique officielle de « décolonisation » de l'Ukraine. Il soutient que, loin d'être véritablement anticoloniale, cette politique confond des périodes historiques fondamentalement différentes sans rigueur scientifique, sert les intérêts nationalistes de droite et efface la mémoire de la contribution des Ukrainiens à la défaite du nazisme. Ilyin affirme que la « décolonisation » est procéduralement (…)

Following the Supreme Court's February 2024 ruling that struck down the opaque electoral bonds scheme, India's corporate donors have simply shifted to a different channel: electoral trusts. The result has been an even more dramatic concentration of political funding in the hands of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Analysis of Election Commission data reveals that the BJP's share of donations to major political parties surged from 56% to 85% in the year spanning the 2024 general (…)

Quelque chose de fondamental a changé en Inde. On peut le percevoir non seulement dans les lieux évidents — le parlement, les studios de télévision, les meetings électoraux — mais aussi dans les zones plus lentes et plus silencieuses de la vie : dans les écoles, où la peur devient un langage ; autour des puits de village, où la caste décide encore de l'ordre de la soif ; dans le silence qui s'abat lorsque le nom d'une communauté religieuse minoritaire est prononcé avec colère ; et dans mille (…)

At the December 2025 founding conference of Your Party in Liverpool, the Belgian Workers' Party (PTB/PVDA) presented itself as a model for the British left. The Red Mole collective subjects that claim to critical scrutiny. Drawing on a decade of analysis by Belgian Fourth Internationalists, particularly Gauche Anticapitaliste, it examines the PTB/PVDA's Maoist origins, its instrumentalisation of left unity in the 2014 PTB-GO! coalition, its undemocratic internal structures, and its retreat (…)

Cet article propose une analyse approfondie de la répression systématique des Ouïghours dans la Région autonome ouïghoure du Xinjiang, dans le nord-ouest de la Chine. S'appuyant sur un vaste travail ethnographique de terrain mené entre 2014 et 2017, l'auteur documente comment la « Guerre populaire contre le terrorisme », déclarée par la Chine en mai 2014, a transformé la patrie ouïghoure en une prison à ciel ouvert. L'article retrace les racines historiques de la colonisation de peuplement (…)

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the systematic repression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Northwest China. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2017, the author documents how China's “People's War on Terror,” declared in May 2014, has transformed the Uyghur homeland into an open-air prison. The article traces the historical roots of Han Chinese settler colonialism in the region, examining how socialist-era (…)

Something fundamental has shifted in India. We can sense it not only in the obvious places—parliament, television studios, election rallies—but in the slower, quieter zones of life: in schools, where fear becomes a language; around village wells, where caste still decides the order of thirst; in the silence that descends when the name of a minority religious community is uttered in anger; and in a thousand unspoken hesitations that now punctuate ordinary speech. The anxieties of a neoliberal (…)

In this interview, British historian and trade union activist Chris Ford traces the eleven-year history of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, which he co-founded following Euromaidan. Ford describes how he first engaged with Ukraine through the Polish Solidarity movement in the 1980s, smuggling dissident literature into Soviet Ukraine and supporting independent trade unions. He explains how the USC has built support for Ukraine within the British labour movement, growing from two affiliated (…)

The Philippines and Indonesia, two of Southeast Asia's largest archipelagic nations, often appear in separate narratives—one shaped by a Spanish–American legacy, the other by Dutch colonial rule. Yet a closer look reveals striking convergences that span their colonial foundations, struggles for independence, religious makeup, foreign influences, authoritarian legacies, environmental challenges, and patterns of corruption. Colonial Foundations and the Fight for Liberation To understand (…)

Kharkiv-based historian Vadym Ilyin offers a left-wing critique of Ukraine's official “decolonisation” policy. He argues that far from being genuinely anti-colonial, the policy conflates fundamentally different historical periods without scholarly rigour, serves right-wing nationalist interests, and erases the memory of Ukrainians' contribution to defeating Nazism. Ilyin contends that “decolonisation” is procedurally undemocratic, driven by far-right activists in coordination with state (…)

Walden Bello writes: “A few months ago, I posted on Facebook a cri de cœur lamenting the demise of what I had called the Third Force to the corrupt Marcoses and the bloody Dutertes. Recently, someone forwarded a response to that post that was quite thoughtful and deserved a wider audience. There are some points I disagree with, but there are many more points I agree with, including the advocacy of a third force from below. Of course, no one likes being called a”false prophet,“but one just (…)

Les centaines de milliers de personnes qui se sont rendues à Shangshad Bhaban pour assister aux funérailles nationales de Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, cofondateur et porte-parole d'Inquilab Moncha et candidat indépendant pour la circonscription de Dhaka 8 aux prochaines élections nationales, témoignent de l'étendue de son influence et de la profondeur du sentiment de perte qu'il laisse derrière lui. Figure importante du soulèvement étudiant de juillet 2024, il s'est illustré comme une voix (…)

Des centaines de milliers de personnes ont assisté cet après-midi à la namaz-e-janaza de Sharif Osman Hadi, porte-parole d'Inqilab Moncha et l'un des leaders du soulèvement de juillet, sur l'avenue Manik Mia. Rassemblement public massif à la namaz-e-janaza de Hadi sur l'avenue Manik Mia. Photo : Star La janaza s'est déroulée après la prière du Zuhr, sous haute sécurité, les forces de l'ordre ayant été déployées sur l'avenue Manik Mia et dans les environs afin de gérer la foule et (…)

Après avoir passé sa première nuit à la prison de Oued Ghir près de Béjaïa, notre camarade Lyés Touati, membre dirigeant de notre parti le PST, suspendu arbitrairement depuis près de 4 ans, a reçu ce matin la visite de ses deux avocats. Bien qu'il soit révolté et indigné par son emprisonnement arbitraire, il n'a pas perdu son sourire légendaire en dépit de la hogra évidente qui le frappe. Le juge d'instruction aurait pu, au pire, l'astreindre au contrôle judiciaire au vu des accusations (…)

Le 14 décembre, Lyes Touati, le militant socialiste internationaliste, figure de proue du mouvement populaire de 2019 (Hirak) et du combat écologique, entre autres ; membre dirigeant du Parti socialiste des travailleurs (PST), est arrêté une fois de plus près de chez lui dans la localité d'Aokas. Le juge d'instruction de Bejaia a ordonné son placement en détention provisoire à la prison d'Oued Ghir. Il est poursuivi sur la base de l'article 87 bis du code pénal pour une prétendue « (…)

Lyes Touati, a member of the Parti Socialiste des Travailleurs (PST), was arrested yesterday in Aokas (Algeria) and remanded in custody. We do not know the reasons for his arrest or the charges against him. Crédit Photo. Photothèque Rouge His arrest follows long-standing police harassment. In particular, he was sentenced to 6 months in prison and fined 10,000 Algerian dinars for posting a quotation from La Boétie on Facebook: ‘They are only great because we are on our knees'. He is also (…)