The recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been overshadowed by the attack on Iran by U.S. and Israeli imperialism. Yet the Afghan-Pakistan war, which began 21-22 February 2026 has resulted in heavy causalities on both sides. It was launched by the Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on Eastern Afghanistan (Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces). The right-wing Pakistan Government of Mian Shahaz Sharif described these strikes as a response to consistent militant attacks inside (…)

- Asia (South, SAARC) / Pakistan (Eng), Afghanistan (Eng), SHARIF Shahbaz, Taliban (Eng), Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), EI-Khorasan (ISKP) / IS-Khorasan (IS-K) (ISIS-K), Fundamentalism / Fundamentalist, History (past), 1978, USA (Eng), 1980s-1990s, India [Bharat], MODI Narendra, TRUMP Donald, China, KPK/NWFP (Pakistan), KHAN Imran, Military

Bohdan Krawchenko is a veteran of the Ukrainian left who helped found the journal Dii͡aloh (Dialog) in the diaspora, co-founded the Marxist journal Critique, and spent fifteen years building Ukraine's public administration after independence. In this wide-ranging interview with Spilne (Commons), Ukraine's leading left-wing journal, Krawchenko traces the genealogy of the Ukrainian anti-Stalinist left from displaced persons camps in postwar Canada, through dissident networks and the European (…)

- On the left (Ukraine)

As US and Israeli military strikes reshape the Middle East, Andrea Ferrario examines Beijing's response to the destruction wrought on Iran since June 2025. Drawing on eight months of developments — from the 12-day war to the assassination of Khamenei on 28 February 2026 — Ferrario traces the structural asymmetry at the heart of Sino-Iranian relations: a partnership sustained by discounted oil and diplomatic formulas, in which China has consistently pulled back from material commitment at (…)

- China & MENA

Un nouvel accident mortel sur le site de l'ancienne usine Ilva de Tarente alors que la production stagne et que le ministre Urso ne bouge pas. Mobilisation des ouvriers. Solidarité de Sinistra Anticapitalista [depuis Tarente, Francesco Maresca] Il est révoltant d'assister à une série d'accidents mortels qui sont presque des copies conformes les uns des autres. D'après ce que nous savons, il s'agit une fois de plus d'une « passerelle qui cède ». Cela semble être un coup du sort, mais ce (…)

- Social, économique (pays, UE) / Tarente, Accident du travail, Italie

Face aux impérialismes, aux droites et extrêmes droites, partout dans le monde, les femmes résistent ! Face aux attaques du gouvernement, Grève féministe ! Nous appelons à la grève du travail, des tâches domestiques et de la consommation. Sans les femmes, tout s'arrête ! Nous sommes déterminées à lutter contre le pouvoir, faire entendre les voix de toutes pour arracher l'égalité. Nous sommes solidaires des femmes et des populations subissant de plein fouet les conséquences dramatiques du (…)

- Femme (France)

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 (…)

- Asia (South, SAARC) / Pakistan (Eng), Afghanistan (Eng)