Nepal's 5 March 2026 parliamentary elections produced a result without parallel since 1959. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (National Independent Party) of Balendra Shah took 182 of 275 seats, while the two main communist formations together won under ten per cent. Three weeks later, former Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested over the September 2025 crackdown that killed 76 young protesters. Adam Novak and Pierre Rousset analyse a political (…)

Houshang Sepehr argues that the US–Israeli war on Iran has mutated into a transregional, global, crisis. Washington is trapped: it cannot withdraw without the appearance of defeat, yet every extra day widens the political and economic cost. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has turned a regional assault into a shock to world energy markets, trade flows and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cohesion, while Donald Trump's quarrel with European allies over a joint naval mission has (…)

Sushovan Dhar, militant politique et syndicaliste indien du CADTM, analyse la recomposition de l'ordre mondial un an après le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison-Blanche. L'auteur récuse la grille de lecture dominante de la « multipolarité » et propose à la place le concept d'« État charnière » pour saisir le positionnement de l'Inde : ni alignée ni non-alignée, elle tire parti des fractures interimpérialistes sans s'engager durablement. Derrière l'autonomie stratégique revendiquée, Dhar (…)

On 18 March 2026, Israeli aircraft struck Iran's South Pars gas and petrochemical complex at Asaluyeh, the pivot of the country's energy economy. We present three Iranian specialists' responses: historian Peyman Jafari on the strike as a bid to destroy Iran's economic infrastructure rather than change its regime; economist Mahdi Ghodsi on the scale of the looming contraction; and labour activist Jalal Saeedi on how war pushes popular and working-class mobilisations backward. Our (…)

Cette intervention a été faite lors de la table ronde « Antiracisme, féminisme et droits civiques dans la lutte contre le fascisme » dans le cadre de la Première conférence internationale antifasciste pour la souveraineté des peuples, qui a eu lieu à Porto Alegre au Brésil du 26 au 29 mars 2026. Copyright. © Vanda Souto. Visit to an Anacé community in Brazil Depuis le début de ce siècle, nous assistons à la montée de forces autoritaires et théocratiques d'extrême droite qui se (…)

This contribution was made during the panel Anti-racism, Feminism, and Civil Rights in the Struggle Against Fascism at the 1st INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FASCIST CONFERENCE FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PEOPLES held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 26th-29th March 2026. Copyright © Vanda Souto. Visit to an Anacé community in Brazil Since the beginning of this century, we have seen the rise of far-right, authoritarian, theocratic forces, which are radicalizing towards fascism if not already fascist. This (…)