Quelque 46 000 hectares sont partis en fumée depuis le mois de janvier, dépassant le précédent record de 2022. Les surfaces brûlées en 2026 sont déjà nettement supérieures à celles de l'ensemble de l'année 2025. Jamais, en vingt années de mesures, autant de surfaces n'avaient brûlé en France entre janvier et juillet. Quelque 46 000 hectares sont partis en fumée sur cette période, dépassant le précédent record de 2022. Par ailleurs, les surfaces brûlées en 2026 sont déjà nettement (…)

The launch of Jentayu (the name of a mythical bird in Malay epic tradition) is good news for the Malaysian left. A bilingual Malay- and English-language journal with explicitly socialist and progressive aims, it appears at a conjuncture the editors themselves describe as a critical crossroads: the “Unity Government” led by Anwar Ibrahim is under strain from communalist political pressure and the structural dislocations of shifting global geoeconomics. The inaugural issue gathers four essays (…)

This book, based on the doctoral thesis of Umar Khalid, activist and scholar detained without trial since September 2020, examines two hundred years of colonial and postcolonial governance in Singhbhum, in what is today the Indian state of Jharkhand. Khalid's central argument is that the British did not destroy indigenous institutions but incorporated and transformed them, intensifying existing hierarchies rather than imposing wholly alien ones. Anand Teltumbde welcomes the book's archival (…)

Thirty years ago, the Taller de Formación Política [Workshop for Political Education or TFP] published the book Water in Puerto Rico: Crisis of Nature or Social Crisis? Many of the problems pointed out in that text have worsened and continue to threaten our society. Many of the criticisms, complaints, and warnings that were made have been confirmed. Unfortunately for the country, everything that was pointed out about the super-aqueduct project has also been borne out. Likewise, the (…)

Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old president of Nicaragua, announced on July 19, the anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, that, “There will be no more elections.”. Speaking to a cheering crowd of as many as 100,000 people in the Plaza of the Revolution, Ortega said his government was abolishing elections and political parties to present a U.S. inspired counterrevolution that would bring to power the former dictator Anastasio Somoza's followers. “The history of parties created by the (…)

In a half-hour, prime-time national speech, President Donald Trump claimed that U.S. elections are vulnerable to foreign interference, to massive non-citizen voting, and to fraud. He called upon Congress to pass what he calls the SAVE America Act, though its actual name is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. The central features of the act require that would-be first-time voters must produce valid photo identification and proof of citizenship, and that states must restrict mail (…)