The Hungarian parliamentary elections of April 2026 brought an end to sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. The scale of the shift was considerable. With turnout approaching 80 per cent—the highest in post-1989 Hungary—the opposition force led by Péter Magyar secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority, displacing Fidesz from a position it had appeared to consolidate durably over more than a decade. The result was not a marginal correction but a decisive reconfiguration of the (…)

Between late 1879 and early 1880, Marx filled a notebook with reading notes on Mykola Kostomarov's study of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate of the 1650s. The manuscript was suppressed under Stalin, publicly announced by Ukrainian Bolshevik leader Mykola Skrypnyk in 1929, and not published until 1993. A recent article by Galenkin Roman Maksymovich on the Ukrainian website Res Publica — here introduced by Vincent Présumey — reconstructs Marx's analysis from those notes. What emerges is a Marx (…)

This article reconstructs Karl Marx's reading of seventeenth-century Ukrainian history from his notes on Mykola Kostomarov's study The Hetmanate of Vyhovsky, written at the end of 1879 and the beginning of 1880. The manuscript was suppressed in the Soviet period after Mykola Skrypnyk announced its existence in 1929, and first published in independent Ukraine only in 1993 Drawing on Engels's analyses of the German Peasant War, the Polish question, and the use of class war as an instrument (…)

Introduction Left politics in Bangladesh today stands at a complex historical crossroads. On the one hand, there is the deepening crisis of global capitalism, climate catastrophe, corporate control over agriculture and food systems, the precarious lives of the working class, and the shrinking of democratic rights ; on the other hand, there is the organizational weakness, political isolation, and theoretical stagnation of Left forces. The interaction of these two realities is shaping the (…)

The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has announced the creation of a new organisation: the All-Ukrainian Union of Combatants, Military Personnel and Veterans. The trade union confederation states that “this is a historic event for the independent Ukrainian trade union movement and the veterans' movement, as it opens up new prospects for the systematic protection of the rights of military personnel, veterans, combatants and their families.” According to the union, “in (…)

Au nom de l'urgence climatique, on risque de légitimer une nouvelle vague de destruction environnementale sous des apparences durables L'adoption récente du projet de loi sur les minerais critiques à la Chambre des députés marque un tournant décisif dans l'intégration du Brésil dans la nouvelle géopolitique mondiale de la transition énergétique. Le capitalisme contemporain traverse une crise écologique et climatique profonde, mais cherche à y faire face sans rompre avec la logique (…)