A “real opposition” exists in Venezuela, an alternative to both the extreme right wing of María Corina Machado and the increasingly authoritarian government of Maduro. This opposition, operating largely out of the public eye, is usually defined as dissident Chavismo, but also encompasses many other democratic and leftist forces. Amongst its many members is constitutional lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, a prominent figure in the 2017 Constituent Assembly, now in exile in Colombia to escape (…)

Suppose a state drunk on the sadistic pleasure of mass expulsion, torture and genocidal annihilation, in the name of 'total victory,' finds itself in a mental health crisis – if there is no psychiatric healer to treat it, can it at least be diagnosed? Photo: A Palestinian man records a burning truck after an Israeli settler attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank in November.Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP “The Arabs have 52 states? Let them go there.” (…)

Eleni Varika, daughter of the historic leader of the Trotskist movement Vasos Varika, was born in Athens in 1949 and studied at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the University of Paris 7. She participated in the Trotskist Communist Revolutionary Front in the Metropolitan and since 1977 in the OKDE after the unification of the two organizations. Shee was a key member of the newspaper Roadblock and was active in the (…)

As Iran's new wave of nationwide protests enters its 12th day—and as reports of a widespread internet blackout since last night circulate—an old debate has returned to the center of political discussion with new speed: are “calls to action” from political figures driving the streets, or are they mainly an attempt to ride a movement that is already happening? BBC Persian tackled this question on its program Goftogoo-ye Vizheh, hosted by Farnaz Ghazi-Zadeh, in a conversation with Leila (…)

Le vendredi 9 janvier 2026, Eleni Varikas s'est éteinte à Paris. Son travail s'est concentré sur la théorie féministe, le colonialisme, les origines du racisme et les problématiques de l'exclusion. À travers une lecture exigeante de l'universalisme moderne, Eleni Varikas n'a cessé d'en interroger les angles morts, les exclusions constitutives et les hiérarchies qu'il prétend pourtant abolir. Le vendredi 9 janvier 2026, Eleni Varikas s'est éteinte à Paris, ville où elle a vécu et travaillé (…)

ELENI VARIKAS, A revolutionary Marxist-Feminist French-Greek professor of political philosophy, best known for her pioneering use of the concept of gender in French research, died of heart failure in Paris in early January 2026. She was 76 years old and the life partner of Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. Both were contributors to ATC and good friends of its sponsoring organization, Solidarity. For those of us who knew Eleni personally, our memories (…)