It was one of the last interviews before Indonesia's greatest novelist died on 30 April 2006, two months after his eighty-first birthday. The interview ranges across his health, his mother, his incarceration on Buru Island, his views on women and sexuality, his assessment of Soekarno, his unsuccessful Nobel Prize nominations, and the Indonesian political leadership vacuum that followed the fall of Suharto. Readers will find here the Pramoedya who called the 1990s activists who brought down (…)

Christian Zeller soutient que la gauche européenne doit élaborer une stratégie intégrée qui soutient simultanément la résistance ukrainienne contre l'occupation russe, s'oppose à la vague générale de réarmement en Europe et poursuit une transformation socio-écologique radicale. Partant de la rivalité impérialiste croissante, de la montée des forces national-conservatrices et fascistes et de la fragilité structurelle du projet européen néolibéral, Zeller soutient qu'une telle stratégie n'est (…)

Christian Zeller argues that the European left must develop an integrated strategy that simultaneously supports Ukrainian resistance against Russian occupation, opposes Europe's general rearmament wave, and pursues radical socio-ecological transformation. Taking as his premise the intensifying imperialist rivalry, the rise of national-conservative and fascist forces, and the structural fragility of the neoliberal European project, Zeller contends that such a strategy is only plausible at (…)

PLA Navy On Monday, a Chinese navy submarine fired a long-range ballistic missile into international waters in the South Pacific. The nuclear-capable missile, which was launched from underwater and carried an inert dummy warhead, is believed to have splashed down near Tuvalu. The Chinese government said the event “was a routine part of China's annual military training program” and was “not directed against any specific country or target”. It added that other countries had been notified, (…)

Environmental activists have applauded a June 26 decision by the Greenlandic government to reject an extension to a controversial exploration license held by Western Australian-based mining company Energy Transition Minerals (ETM). Urani? Naamik (Uranium? No thanks) activists. Photo: Erik Jensen Kuannersuit/Kvanefjeld, in the country's south, contains the second-largest uranium deposit in the world, possibly the largest thorium deposit and the third-largest rare earth deposits. When (…)

Le consensus scientifique établi est que la combustion des combustibles fossiles est à l'origine de la crise climatique, et pourtant les plus grandes compagnies pétrolières mondiales prévoient d'augmenter leur production Les plus grandes compagnies pétrolières prévoient d'augmenter leur production de 14 % en moyenne entre 2024 et 2030, selon les données du Climate Transition Centre de la London School of Economics. Photo : Christian Hartmann/Reuters Alors que le monde souffre d'une (…)