End Corporate Farming, Ensure Fair Distribution of Water, and Set Minimum Support Prices for Crops Decisions Taken at the One-Day Meeting of the Central Leadership of the Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee A one-day meeting of the central leadership of the Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee (PKRC) was held at a local hotel in Lahore, attended by peasant leaders from across Pakistan. The meeting was chaired by Tariq Mahmood, President, and Riffat Maqsood, General Secretary, of the Pakistan (…)

Latest news: Farooq Tariq and others were relased 31 of July 2026. Dear comrades! Farooq Tariq, General Secretary Labor Party Pakistan, along with 10 party members [51 activists were arrested] , was arrested once again on Thursday (27 th Sept 07), from outside Lahore High Court, third time in last three months. He was under ground for the last three days as police was looking for him to arrest him. On Thursday he surfaced for a while to participate in lawyers protest rally against (…)

France was this week hit by a fourth heatwave in the space of less than two months, with temperatures hitting 40°C on Thursday in some parts and further outbreaks of wildfires. Is this extraordinary summer the new norm, or even just a taste of what is to come? For an answer, Mediapart turned to climatologist Robert Vautard, a member of France's National Centre for Scientific Research and who is co-chair of Working Group 1 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a (…)

L'Ukraine vend à l'Asie de l'Est la seule chose qu'on ne peut pas fabriquer en temps de paix : l'expérience de la guerre. Mais tout passe encore par Shenzhen. Le soutien chinois à l'effort de guerre russe a provoqué en Asie de l'Est un contrecoup que Pékin n'avait pas prévu. Les composants et les biens à double usage provenant de Chine ont permis à Moscou de poursuivre sa guerre pendant plus de quatre ans. Cette durée a transformé l'Ukraine en quelque chose qui n'existait pas en 2022, à (…)

L'Hexagone est entré dans un quatrième épisode caniculaire, inscrivant définitivement l'été 2026 comme celui de tous les records. Une situation qui illustre l'ampleur du changement climatique en Europe occidentale, selon le vice-président du groupe 1 du Giec, Robert Vautard. Nouvelle journée aux températures caniculaires mercredi 29 juillet, avec des pointes à 40 et 42 °C dans le Sud-Ouest et la région lyonnaise. Pour Météo-France, l'Hexagone et la Corse sont entrés dans « le quatrième (…)

As the wildfires in south-west France and their dire consequences dominate headlines in the country, president Macron and his government have been highly present in the media over the past fortnight, communicating on the subject. But, writes Mediapart environment correspondent Jade Lindgaard in this op-ed article, the statements and declarations appear as if they are the product of an algorithm stuck on a monomaniacal programme of cracking down on arsonists, to the exclusion of a vision, or (…)