Central Hall Westminster was full with around 3,000 people attending an international conference against war on Saturday 20 June. The Stop the War Coalition, established in 2001 in response to the invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq, was the main organiser. Fred Leplat and Liz Lawrence discuss how this anti-war conference failed to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The main political parties in the United Kingdom, from Labour through to Reform are arguing that it is necessary (…)

L'effondrement de la Yougoslavie dans les années 1990 est le plus souvent rappelé à travers la violence qu'il a engendrée. Moins présente dans la mémoire collective est la résistance à cette violence — les insoumis, les déserteurs, les réservistes en rébellion et les militants antiwar de Serbie qui ont refusé de participer à une guerre qui ne servait que les intérêts de la classe dirigeante. L'historien Aleksandar Nikolić reconstruit la crise de la mobilisation de 1991 et les formes (…)

A man who does Nazi salutes and promotes race wars has become the world's first trillionaire. Simon Hannah makes the case for a political revolution Musk got this money from piggy backing on other people's success, busting trade unions, moving to low tax states, selling carbon credits from Tesla to highly polluting companies and getting government contracts for SpaceX. He is a grifter, a narcissist, a crypto fascist and a hypocrite. He advocates for outright race war in Britain. In short (…)

The collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s is most often remembered through the violence it produced. Less remembered is the resistance to that violence — the draft resisters, deserters, mutinous reservists, and anti-war activists in Serbia who refused to participate in a war that served no interest but that of the ruling class. Historian Aleksandar Nikolić reconstructs the mobilisation crisis of 1991 and the forms of organised opposition that arose in response to it. The picture that emerges (…)

Fears of resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic' climate Niger's military leader, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, who seized power in 2023. Photograph: AP A “witch-hunt” is under way in Niger, where dozens of people have been arrested for homosexuality in the west African state following the introduction of a new penal code earlier this year. Up to 40 people have been arrested and 16 men, including high-ranking military officials, (…)

Les catastrophes naturelles ont cette fâcheuse capacité à révéler la dure réalité d'une situation. Elles ne provoquent pas de crises en elles-mêmes ; elles se contentent de faire tomber les façades qui les dissimulent. Les deux séismes majeurs qui ont récemment frappé le Venezuela, dont les épicentres se situaient à Caracas et à La Guaira, ont non seulement fait bouger les plaques tectoniques des Caraïbes et de l'Amérique du Sud, mais ont également complètement bouleversé la normalité (…)