À mesure que le nationalisme baloutche passait d'une logique tribale, dominée par les chefs sardars et axée sur la négociation, à un combat pour les droits humains, il a ouvert la voie à des femmes telles que Mahrang Baloch, du Comité Baloch Yakjehti UNE PHOTOGRAPHIE DE Mahrang Baloch circule sur les réseaux sociaux depuis quelques semaines. Prise par une froide matinée d'hiver à Quetta, la capitale de la province pakistanaise du Baloutchistan, en janvier 2024, elle montre Mahrang, (…)

Le 15 juin, des étudiant.e.s de deux universités indonésiennes ont fait quelque chose qui aurait été impensable une décennie plus tôt. Un groupe a fait irruption dans une conférence à la prestigieuse Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) de Yogyakarta où Budiman Sudjatmiko avait été invité à prendre la parole, brandissant des banderoles de protestation et le forçant à quitter la tribune. Huit jours plus tard, des étudiant.e.s de l'Universitas Mulawarman à Samarinda ont interrompu une conférence (…)

Four former cadres of the 1994-2021 anticapitalist Peoples Democratic Party (PRD)— Wiji Thukul, Petrus Bima Anugerah, Herman Hendrawan, Suyat — remain unaccounted for after their abduction by military forces under General Prabowo Subianto in 1997–98. Three of their former comrades now serve in Prabowo's cabinet. When students at two Indonesian universities disrupted public appearances by cabinet members Budiman Sudjatmiko and Mugiyanto in June 2026, they were not protesting a policy (…)

Today's Johor state election campaigning brought a long-running debate within Malaysia's socialist left into public view. On 15 June, the anticapitalist Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM — Socialist Party of Malaysia) and the youth-based social democratic Parti Ikatan Demokratik Malaysia (MUDA — Malaysian United Democratic Alliance) announced the formation of a Progressive Bloc to coordinate their campaigns in the Johor and Negeri Sembilan state elections. Two days later, the Angkatan Kesatuan (…)

Chee Soon Juan has led the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) since 1993, making him the longest-serving leader of a mainstream opposition party in a political system the PAP has dominated without interruption since 1959. Facing repeated lawsuits, bankruptcy, and imprisonment for acts of civil disobedience, Chee has consistently argued that Singapore's economic model — built on suppression of political pluralism, media control, and neoliberal growth metrics — is reaching its limits. The costs (…)

It was one of the last interviews before Indonesia's greatest novelist died on 30 April 2006, two months after his eighty-first birthday. The interview ranges across his health, his mother, his incarceration on Buru Island, his views on women and sexuality, his assessment of Soekarno, his unsuccessful Nobel Prize nominations, and the Indonesian political leadership vacuum that followed the fall of Suharto. Readers will find here the Pramoedya who called the 1990s activists who brought down (…)