The Africa Forward summit, hosted by Emmanuel Macron in Nairobi in May 2026, presents itself as a new chapter in France-Africa relations, grounded in “partnership” and “innovation”. Germain Gillet, writing in the French anticapitalist weekly L'Anticapitaliste, dissects the summit's real purpose: to restore French economic and political influence across Africa following a series of damaging setbacks, most notably the expulsion of French military forces from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The (…)

- Africa

This document, adopted at the founding congress of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa–Pilipinas (RPM-P, Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines) in 1998, sets out the party's orientation on the working class movement. It constitutes one of the clearest statements of what distinguished the rejectionist current — which broke from the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1992–93 — from both the CPP and the democratic socialist left: the RPM-P insists on the class's (…)

- The Left (Philippines) / Labor / Labour movement, RPM-P (1998-2001) (Philippines)

Uraz Aydın defends, in the context of a debate sparked on the Turkish and Kurdish left, the importance of self-emancipation in the democratic conception of socialism, while reaffirming the strategic centrality of the destruction of the bourgeois state apparatus and the questioning of property relations, based on two of the main experiences of the international workers' movement of the last century. The debate was opened by several texts by Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' (…)

- History of people's struggles (Europe) / POUM (Espagne), Nationalisation and socialisation, Russian Revolution, 1917, 1905, Emancipation / Self-emancipation (Eng), Power/State, Councils / Soviets / Local committees, Praxis, Revolutionary Subject, Revolutionary process, Crisis (revolutionary), Kurds, ÖCALAN Abdullah, PKK (Kurdistan), Spanish Civil War, 1936, German Revolution (1918-1923)

« L'avenir de CHEGA dépendra fortement de sa capacité d'organisation, du rôle qu'il jouera lors des prochaines élections législatives et de l'évolution internationale de l'extrême droite. Dans tous ces domaines, des incertitudes subsistent. [Cependant], il y a peu de signes d'une organisation capable d'ancrer le parti dans la société. » En 2019, le Portugal était un pays à part dans l'ordre international, au moins dans un domaine. Au terme de quatre années de gouvernement minoritaire du (…)

- Fascisme, extrême droite, droite extrême (Europe) / Portugal (Fr), Chega (Portugal), VENTURA André, Biographie

President Donald Trump's Justice Department on May 20, 2026 charged Raúl Castro with murder. Raúl, the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and established a Communist pro-Soviet state by 1961. The charges against him stem from February 1996 when a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue flew two planes toward Cuba but while still in international airspace were shot down by Cuban fighter (…)

- Cuba / USA (Eng), TRUMP Donald, RUBIO Marco, CASTRO Raúl, Venezuela (Eng)

By the second week of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo it was already clear that containing the spread of the haemorrhagic disease was proving to be difficult. On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. This is its highest level of global health alert. It is mostly reserved for an extraordinary disease outbreak or event that is a public health risk to many countries through (…)

- Epidemics, pandemics (health, Democratic Republic of the Congo) / USAID, Culture / Cultures (Fr), Religion / Religions / Croyances (Fr)