The following text is based on a lecture delivered in Arabic on 22 January 2016, at the symposium on “Five Years Since the Arab Revolutions: The Difficulties and Consequences of Democratic Transition”, held at the American University of Beirut and convened by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. The Arabic text was first published in the now-defunct Marxist journal Bidayat, n° 16, 2017. Undoubtedly, the (…)

- The region (MENA) / Revolutions (Eng), Arab revolution, Revolution: problems, Arab Revolutions, Power/State, Political Regimes, Marxism (Eng), Egypt (Eng), Tunisia

Bohdan Krawchenko, vétéran de la gauche ukrainienne de la diaspora, retrace dans cet entretien avec Spilne (Commons) la généalogie de la gauche anti-stalinienne ukrainienne, des camps de personnes déplacées d'après-guerre jusqu'à la gauche ukrainienne d'aujourd'hui. Co-fondateur du journal marxiste Critique et de la revue Dii͡aloh, il a consacré quinze ans à bâtir les institutions d'administration publique de l'Ukraine indépendante. Il avance que la tradition sociale ukrainienne est (…)

- À gauche (Ukraine)

Marc Bonhomme argues that Ukraine has become the decisive front of the global struggle against imperialism. He traces how the decline of US hegemony and the rise of plural imperialism have created a fluid world order in which Russia's militarist attempt to recolonise Ukraine stands out as the clearest test case. Dismissing both campist anti-Americanism and flat-footed pacifism on the left, Bonhomme insists that genuine anti-imperialism today requires unconditional solidarity with the (…)

- Ukraine / Campism vs Internationalism /Tankies, Internationalism (Eng)

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