On Thursday, December 18, 2025, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was repealed and replaced with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) — the VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025. The Modi government, through deliberate and calculated dissimulation, tabled the bill for discussion in Parliament without any prior consultation, allocated inadequate time for debate and finally passed the bill through a voice vote despite widespread dissent from (…)

The move effectively legalizes the repopulation of four northern West Bank settlements that Israel evacuated in 2005 under the Oslo Accords . Far-right Minister Smotrich, who spearheaded the initiative, said Israel has authorized 69 new outposts over the past three years Photo: The ruins of the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, in 2017. Credit: Emil Salman The Israeli government has finalized the legalization of 19 previously unauthorized settler outposts in the West (…)

In August 2025, the Vice Chairman of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) delivered an extraordinary public statement. Zhao Guoan declared that his organisation—the most powerful ethnic armed group in Southeast Asia, commanding an estimated 30,000 troops equipped with tanks, helicopters, and surface-to-air missiles—faced “the worst survival crisis in 40 years.” The source of this existential pressure was not the Myanmar military. It was China. Under what Zhao termed “unprecedented” coercion, (…)

This is the text (with sources added) of a December 4 presentation kicking off the third installment of Solidarity's online study group dealing with “Problems of Socialist Organization.” Russia's revolution of 1917 resulted from the blend of terrible catastrophes and profound hopes. The First World War was going very badly for the Tsar's army and for the Russian people, adding new grievances to old, and generating a new wave of working-class radicalization. The tsarist system of (…)

On 12 June 2025, China Labour Bulletin closed its doors after thirty years of operation. The Hong Kong-based organisation had documented strikes, labour disputes, and worker organising across China since 1994, building the most comprehensive database of Chinese labour unrest available anywhere. Its closure marked not an isolated setback but the endpoint of a decade-long destruction of progressive Chinese-language media infrastructure. The systematic elimination of Chinese progressive (…)

Chaque hiver, la Région de la capitale nationale (NCR) accueille ses habitants avec une situation sinistre désormais familière. Le ciel s'assombrit, la visibilité chute, et l'air lui-même semble se retourner contre ses habitants. Les écoles ferment, les hôpitaux sont submergés, et l'on conseille aux gens de rester chez eux, comme si la ville était devenue inhabitable. Cette crise annuelle est souvent présentée comme un phénomène saisonnier, quelque chose d'inévitable, un produit de la (…)