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 (…)