The mass strike actions planned for Friday in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump's racist terror campaign. This potential show of class power could be an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement. Minneapolis has become the frontline in the emerging soft civil war between the U.S. government and large sections of its population. The city is now building toward a mass strike this Friday. While the exact scope of the (…)

ESSF has published substantial coverage of the Cyclone Senyar disaster, including Pierre Rousset's Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power, Mark Johnson's compilation of Indonesian ecosocialist movement analysis in Capital Disaster: How Indonesian Movements Are Framing Cyclone Senyar, and Amnesty International Indonesia's White flag flown in Aceh, national and international aid must be allowed in (Usman Hamid). This update presents ten recent articles that document how (…)

It is terrible that the global geopolitical left does not understand that what is important is to stand with those who live the drama of the working class, not to calculate how many governments identify as right-wing and how many as progressive; the politics of the common is not a game of monopoly. In fact, whilst whoever leads the bureaucratic and employer-aligned Central Bolivariana Socialista de los Trabajadores (CBST, Bolivarian Socialist Workers' Central) has never led a strike in (…)

Over the past several weeks, Trump's attack on democratic rights in the US and violations of international law and the sovereignty of other countries have increased in scale and violence. On January 3, 2026, a massive aerial and naval force kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, killing a hundred Venezuelans and Cubans in the raid, which was followed by the theft of 500 million barrels of Venezuelan oil by US naval forces. With supreme imperial arrogance, (…)

Malgré un cessez-le-feu entre le gouvernement d'al-Sharaa et les FDS, le président ne fournit pas suffisamment de garanties quant à la protection des Kurdes syriens, affirme Joseph Daher. Le président syrien Ahmed al-Charaa a signé un accord de cessez-le-feu avec les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) dirigées par les Kurdes le 18 janvier 2026. © GETTY Malgré l'accord conclu mardi entre le gouvernement d'Ahmed al-Sharaa et les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) kurdes sur un nouveau (…)

Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa's government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected, argues Joseph Daher. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa sighned a ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January 18, 2026. [GETTY] Despite Ahmed al-Sharaa's government and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), agreeing on another ceasefire on Tuesday, infighting and tensions in the country continue. The (…)