Syria's post-Assad leadership is failing its people, igniting protests over poverty & inequality. Joseph Daher reflects on a year under Ahmed al-Sharaa. Syrians gather to mark the one year anniversary of the Assad regime's fall. [GETTY] Large rallies in support of Syria's ruling authorities were organised last month across various cities controlled by Ahmed al-Sharaa's government. Whilst they were presented as demonstrations ‘against division' and for the unity of the country, (…)

La campagne de dénigrement insensée menée par Israël contre l'Office de secours et de travaux des Nations unies (UNRWA) – qui a atteint son paroxysme le 8 décembre avec le raid insensé contre son siège à Jérusalem et le déploiement du drapeau israélien [« Selon la déclaration de l'UNRWA, les forces israéliennes ont fouillé les locaux, confisqué du matériel et empêché les personnes présentes au siège de communiquer avec leurs collègues à l'extérieur. “Les forces israéliennes sont arrivées en (…)

Gazans claim the Israeli-controlled area, marked by the so-called Yellow Line, changes without warning, moving west. 'We are not fighters,' says one mother sheltering in central Gaza, who worries her children will get caught in the line of fire, 'we are people trying to live' Palestinians show leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called Yellow Line in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in October. Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP When Maha Oudah (…)

Three months after the September uprising that toppled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and brought Nepal's first female head of government to power, the country remains suspended between revolutionary rupture and uncertain transition. The interim government of Sushila Karki has a single mandate: conduct elections on 5 March 2026. Whether it can do so—and whether the uprising's energy will translate into lasting political change—are questions now being contested across Nepal's media and civil (…)

LGBT communities in South-East and East Asia face a contradictory landscape: legislative breakthroughs in some countries coincide with intensified repression in others. The past year's developments illuminate both the conditions under which movements advance and the mechanisms through which states marginalise sexual and gender minorities. Feminist and progressive publications across the region have documented these struggles, foregrounding the voices of those directly affected. Indonesia: (…)

Ninety years ago today, on 18 December 1935, the 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 (𝐋𝐒𝐒𝐏) was founded in Kumari Jayawardena's words, as a “broad based radical party instead of a strictly Marxist party...”, by a mostly Marxist group of 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 members. This couple of dozen men and (three) women declared the new party's “fundamental objective” to be the “establishment of a Socialist Society”. The founding manifesto set out three main aims and 22 immediate demands. This is the Manifesto (…)