Indian transgender rights activist, author and theatre practitioner A. Revathi — known as Revathi Amma — spoke to Sudarshana Chakraborty for GroundXero in December 2025. The interview is published in April 2026 against the backdrop of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, which strips the right to self-identification affirmed by the 2014 NALSA judgement. Revathi addresses the fragmentation of the Indian LGBTQIA+ movement, the trap of NGO-driven politics, the (…)

- LGBT+ (India) / LGBTQ+ (Eng), Laws (LGBT+), Transphobia, Gender Recognition Certificates (GRC) , Gender

As many as 53 percent of respondents to an poll believe that the public is always or often afraid to discuss politics. The component on the state of freedom was included in the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) survey titled “Evaluation and Public Commitment to [the state ideology] Pancasila”, which was presented by LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan in Cikini, Central Jakarta, on Sunday April 12. Respondents were asked to express their opinions on several questions, one of which was (…)

- Indonesia & West Papua

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism An armed federal agent guards the US–Mexico border, February 4th. Ross D. Franklin/AP On June 3rd, 2024, President Joe Biden announced a policy change with catastrophic implications. Following record-high migration across the United States–Mexico border, he issued a presidential proclamation capping the number of people who were allowed to cross the border to seek asylum. Just four years earlier, (…)

- Law (Humanitarian) / Refugees, Asylum, USA (Eng), BIDEN Joseph , TRUMP Donald, Borders, 2024, Migrants/Migration (Fr), Quotas, CLINTON Bill, European Union, Australia, Haiti (Eng), Haitians, Racism/Race/Antiracism (Eng), Discriminations (Eng), Nation State, Authoritarian / authoritarianism / Dictatorship, Mediterranean, Libya

On the April 23, 2026 first phase election in West Bengal. • Smash the Fascist BJP • Resist the Reactionary, Criminal and anti-people TMC • Vote Left to strengthen Class Struggle Our Call We call on all progressive minded people to vote left. No, we do not believe that left always means revolutionary. Nor are we suffering from the delusion that a Left Front government will emerge from this election. But we do not see the reactionary, criminal TMC as a real alternative to the (…)

- The Left (India) / West Bengal, Electoral choices (Eng), Left forces, BJP (India / Inde), TMC (India)

Le procès en appel de Nicolas Sarkozy révèle aussi l'indignité de l'homme. Les échos du tribunal font remonter à la surface tant de souvenirs pénibles. On espère tellement tourner la page avec le fric, l'égocentrisme, la vulgarité et le racisme qu'il incarne si bien. Depuis le 16 mars, et jusqu'au 3 juin, se déroule le procès en appel de Nicolas Sarkozy, condamné en première instance pour association de malfaiteurs. Dans le fracas des nouvelles, celles qui nous parviennent du palais de (…)

- Nicolas Sarkozy

Proposer, provoquer, puis retirer : la séquence est désormais rodée. Avec la proposition de loi Yadan, la majorité présidentielle ajoute un nouvel épisode à une série de reculades qui traduisent moins une stratégie qu'un affaiblissement politique profond. Il y a des retraits qui soulagent. Celui de la proposition de loi Yadan « visant à lutter contre les formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme » en fait partie. Et d'abord parce que ce texte avait profondément inquiété l'opinion, les juristes (…)

- Situation et débats politiques (France) / Macronisme / Macronie, Présidentielle 2027 (France), Droite, Parlementaire / élus, Crise politique/institutionnelle/de régime