A GOVERNMENT THAT claims the right to blow up unarmed boats at sea in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific will also feel free to kill its population at home. A government that kidnaps the ruler of a foreign country, seizes its resources, and proclaims the intention to “run the country for years” will trample the democratic freedoms and civil rights of its own population with equal arrogance. The violent terror campaign unleashed against immigrants has resulted in the murder of Renee Good, (…)

- USA / Rights (migrants), Donroe Doctrine, White Supremacy / Supremacism, TRUMP Donald, International Relations / Diplomacy / Foreign policy, Minneapolis, Rights (civil, democratic)

At the moment, Minneapolis is the frontline of the resistance. President Donald Trump is at war with Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, whom he hates as a political rival, and at war with liberal Minneapolis, the state's largest city. Trump has now sent 3,000 agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into Minneapolis, 1,000 more than there were before ICE murdered activist Renée Nicole Good. There are now more ICE agents in Minneapolis than there are police in the metropolitan (…)

- USA

On Sunday 18 January, presidential elections were held in Portugal, with a second round scheduled for 8 February. A former leader of the Partido Socialista (Socialist Party, PS) and the leader of the neo-fascists will contest a run-off that confirms Portugal's shift to the right. The concentration of votes in the PS has relegated the left to new historic lows. The gypsies must obey the law! (Chega billboard) The combined votes for the right-wing government and the ultraliberal and (…)

- Europe, Great Britain

At a study day organised by the Ernest Mandel Foundation in Antwerp, historians Vincent Scheltiens and Alex de Jong analysed the contemporary far right's rise across Europe. Their central argument: whilst parallels between 1930s fascism and today's neofascism exist, drawing such comparisons is strategically counterproductive. Today's far right, exemplified by Geert Wilders' PVV, functions less as classical fascism than as radicalised liberalism – embracing free-market ideology rather than (…)

- Fascism, extreme right, fundamentalism (Europe)

China's US$20 billion Simandou iron ore project in Guinea signals a fundamental shift in Beijing's African strategy: from financing infrastructure through loans to directly controlling mines, railways and ports in a vertically integrated system. Yet this expansion comes at enormous cost. Environmental disasters in Zambia and the DRC have poisoned rivers and communities, whilst companies deploy legal threats and surveillance to silence critics. Chinese workers lured by promises of wealth find (…)

- China & Africa / Fer, Guinée, Simandou, Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Alcán, Ports (Fr), Bauxite, Mass assassination / Mass killings, Working conditions, Pollutions (Fr), Nigeria (Eng), Crise (eau), Cameroun, Zambia, Ecological disasters, Corruption/ Embezzlement (Eng), Mines / Exploitation minière (Fr), Dette / Endettement, Debt / Indebtedness, Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) (Eng), Angola (Eng), Dam

Exactly 17 years ago – on 19 January 2009 – a crime was committed that made this date symbolic as a day of remembrance for victims of far-right terror. That day, Russian neo-Nazis murdered two prominent figures of the antifascist movement – opposition human rights defender, left-wing and civic activist Stanislav Markelov, and Crimean anarchist and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who had been exposing the numerous crimes of Russian security forces. Stanislav defended victims of war crimes (…)

- Eastern Europe & Russian Federation