Nous étions trois, André Lantz, Axel Dehalleux et Pierre Rousset, pour inventorier les insectes. Cette séance est parmi celles que nous avons effectuées auprès de la mare perchée, la plus précoce dans l'année. Nous avions décidé de profiter d'une accalmie du vent, même si la présence de la lune nuisait à une bonne obscurité. Cette séance est aussi la vingtième effectuée depuis la première en 2019. [Nous avons reproduit sur ESSF un premier compte rendu de cette « nocturne » rédigé par André (…)

What Moscow expected to be a war of weeks is now into its fifth year. Ukrainian railway workers, miners and energy crews keep the country running under Russian bombardment while Ukraine's oligarchic state will not ask the rich to pay for defence. This article documents the price the Ukrainian working class is paying, the feminised volunteer infrastructure carrying what the state will not, the mass anti-corruption mobilisations, and the stakes of a reconstruction now being designed in donor (…)

Quatre ans après le début de l'invasion à grande échelle de la Russie, les cheminot·es, mineur·es et travailleur·euses de l'énergie ukrainien·nes maintiennent le pays en activité sous les bombardements, tandis qu'un État oligarchique refuse d'exiger des riches qu'ils paient pour la défense. Cet article documente le prix que paie la classe ouvrière, l'infrastructure bénévole féminisée qui assume ce que l'État ne fait pas, les mobilisations citoyennes massives contre la corruption, et les (…)

Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Miri Regev went to the Ashdod Port on Wednesday to be photographed amid the humiliation of hundreds of detained activists from the latest flotilla to Gaza. Detainees were forced to kneel, heads touching the floor with their hands tied behind their backs, as loudspeakers played “Hatikva” repeatedly. Gaza-bound flotilla activists crouch on the floor with their hands tied in zip-bands, on Wednesday. Credit: Screenshot/Itamar Ben-Gvir on X When one activist (…)

The Scottish Parliament [Holyrood] elections on 7 May, 2026, produced a balance between continuity and change. The election was a disaster for the Labour Party which had high hopes two years ago of emerging as the largest party, but they lost seats and fell to their lowest representation in the devolution era. The big gainers were the left-wing Scottish Green Party. The SNP won the lion's share of the constituencies and will continue to take the role of First Minister and nominate (…)

“A Defeat Manufactured in Downing Street”. Those were the words used by Mick Antoniw, former MS (Member of the Senedd), Counsel General in the Welsh Labour government and a senior member of the Labour Party in Cymru/Wales. He was describing the election on May 7 when Cymru underwent a change of historic proportions. The Labour Party, the party that has dominated every election in Cymru, both Westminster and Senedd, for the last 100 years, did not win either the most votes or the most (…)