Pakistan's declaration of “open war” against the Afghan Taliban in early 2026 marks a dramatic reversal: Islamabad now wages war against a regime it spent decades cultivating. In this interview with Alternative Viewpoint, Pakistani left activist and academic Farooq Sulehria traces the crisis to its structural roots — the “strategic depth” doctrine, decades of proxy jihadist patronage, and the ideological character of Taliban rule. Sulehria identifies the conflict as a collision of (…)

Kaagapay OFW stands in solidarity with the millions of migrants and thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and overseas Filipinos who face the devastating risks brought by the US-Israel military campaigns against Iran. We strongly condemn this devastating military aggression and demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire. We also demand for a stronger protection for OFWs and overseas Filipinos caught in the violence and urge the national government of the Philippines to uphold and (…)

On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a military attack on Iran, killing over 1,000 people within five days and triggering a regional humanitarian crisis. Free Women, the Indonesian socialist feminist organisation, condemns the attack as an act of imperialist colonisation aimed at controlling Iran's oil resources — not at liberating its people. The statement affirms the Iranian people's right to determine their own future, honours the long history of Iranian women's (…)

With global attention fixed on the escalating U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Israel has imposed a total military closure on the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to try to expel more rural Palestinian communities from their land, as they did in the days immediately following October 7. Within hours of the war beginning on Saturday morning, the Israeli army shut all checkpoints across the West Bank and blocked roads between cities and (…)

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights. Copyright. Fourth International / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 It is within this framework that International Women's Day will take place with the occupation of streets and (…)

Partout dans le monde, les femmes mettent en place des réseaux de solidarité, des moyens de protection et de dénonciation contre toutes les formes de violence, qu'elle soit domestique, militaire impérialiste ou fasciste. Les femmes construisent des résistances sur leurs territoires contre la faim, la pauvreté, les guerres, l'extractivisme, l'effondrement climatique et la privation de droits. Copyright. Fourth International / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 C'est dans ce cadre que la Journée (…)