This Morning Money's investigation foregrounds an argument shared, across the class divide, by trade unionists organising the informal sector and by employer-side economists in Colombo: Sri Lanka's punitive approach to formalisation — taxation, regulation, threatened enforcement — has failed, and the state itself will bear the cost. Without voluntary, incentive-based registration tied to genuine social security with employee contributions, the government will inherit an unfunded burden of (…)

90 plus tard, le Front populaire résonne encore dans la mémoire française. Chacun à gauche se réclame du grand exemple, mais la plupart du temps pour valoriser le choix politique du moment. L'historien Roger Martelli rappelle les faits. Il n'y a certes pas une vérité unique du Front populaire et chacun est libre de dire ce qu'il retient de l'événement. Est-il toutefois possible de retenir des points de repère partageables, à partir de ce que l'on sait aujourd'hui de l'événement lui-même ? (…)

In this piece for the Italian independent media outlet Valigia Blu, Arianna Ciccone weaves together five threads to argue that Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression and Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation are inseparable tests of contemporary antifascism. Drawing on David Sassoli's defence of the European project as a fragile achievement, the testimonies of Ukrainian left voices including Hanna Perekhoda, Taras Bilous and Solidarity Collectives, the federalist and nonviolent (…)

Where is one of worst places to be a woman? Afghanistan. That's what most people think when it comes to the topic of the women's rights crisis under the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. But this only tells part of the story. Afghan girls attend a class in an underground school in Afghanistan two years after the 2020 Taliban takeover of the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Ebrahim Noroozi Focusing on the word “rights” hides something more serious underneath: how people live and survive in (…)

Dans cet article publié par le média indépendant italien Valigia Blu, Arianna Ciccone tisse cinq fils pour soutenir que la résistance ukrainienne à l'agression russe et la résistance palestinienne à l'occupation israélienne sont des épreuves indissociables de l'antifascisme contemporain. En mobilisant la défense par David Sassoli du projet européen comme conquête fragile, les voix de la gauche ukrainienne — Hanna Perekhoda, Taras Bilous, Solidarity Collectives —, l'héritage fédéraliste et (…)

Trump‑Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China' moment – that they are talking is enough for now Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking. The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a time when America did not even formally recognize the People's Republic of China. Deng Xiaoping's visit to the U.S. in (…)