In Bangladesh, every national parliamentary election is not merely an event of voting ; it is a testing ground for the country's political class structure, the configuration of state power, the condition of democratic movements, and the political consciousness of social forces. In the most recent parliamentary election, left-wing political parties—such as socialist parties, communist parties, and labor–peasant–based organizations—did not achieve what could be called a reasonable success in (…)

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and two-time candidate for president, died on February 17, 2026 at the age of 84. The leading social and political figure of Black people in the United States in the later twentieth century, he suffered from Parkinson's disease and died of progressive supranuclear palsy. The story below, originally published in December 2023 in New Politics, deals principally with his two presidential campaigns. Rev. Jesse Jackson was the most significant Black (…)

The proposed law ‘Remigration and Reconquest: Provisions on the management of migration flows, establishment of a national remigration programme and a fund (to support higher) Italian birth rates' has reached the 50,000 signatures required for it to be brought for debate before parliament. This is a political development of enormous gravity. It is not a marginal fringe obsession, nor another social media provocation by the far right, but a formal, concrete and disturbing turn of events. (…)

The resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to President Donald Trump's mass deportation program won a victory last week when Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan announced that they were ending the ICE surge in Minneapolis. At its peak there were 3,000 ICE and Border agents conducting violent raids in the city, beating, gassing, and murdering two of the city's residents. ICE's violent tactics had led to a militant resistance as thousands rallied to challenge ICE, blowing (…)

Pendant la majeure partie de l'histoire de la Syrie, l'assujettissement par la force (le coup d'État) a été la voie traditionnelle vers le pouvoir. Voilà pourquoi, chez nous, les autorités, accordent si peu d'importance ou de valeur à l'opinion et aux sentiments du peuple. Elles ont la certitude, ancrée dans leur mémoire, que seule la force est efficace, qu'elle est leur véritable colonne vertébrale et que tout le reste n'est que décor. Résultat : la loi du plus fort est une caractéristique (…)

Si les pesticides ont longtemps assuré la protection des cultures, leurs effets délétères sont aujourd'hui largement documentés. Réduire cette dépendance est devenu une urgence sanitaire, environnementale et économique. Les stratégies de lutte contre les ravageurs intègrent aujourd'hui de nouvelles techniques innovantes. L'analyse de la situation en France et au Brésil livre un éclairage croisé sur cette question. La protection des cultures est un enjeu majeur pour l'agriculture et pour la (…)