Putin's Russia has developed a distinctive category of public figure with no real equivalent in competitive democracies: the media troll --- a provocateur granted television airtime and online platforms not despite, but because of, their eccentricity and inflammatory style. Evgeny Kazakov, writing for the Russian independent exile publication Posle, analyses how these figures function within the Putinist political system and what structural role they serve. The figures Kazakov examines (…)

The Battle of the Sutjeska (the Nazi “Operation Schwarz”) in June 1943 was the closest the Axis came to destroying the Yugoslav partisan main force, and its outcome marked a turning point in the war in Yugoslavia. By mid-1943 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had transformed a 5,000-member underground into a movement fielding four divisions, with political authority across liberated territories and two years of accumulated mountain warfare experience. The Germans had also adapted. (…)

Ukraine's Decent Work Country Programme for 2026–2029 is nothing of the sort, Tte government's flagship labour reform, Draft Labour Code No. 14386, directly contradicts each of the programme's three stated priorities. The bill would allow dismissals and overtime without trade union consent, permit employers to keep information secret from unions, authorise permanent workplace video surveillance, and strip protection from working parents of children over eighteen months. The government is (…)

Publié dans la presse de la Quatrième Internationale en janvier 1949, cet article fut la première tentative sérieuse d'analyser la révolution albanaise au sein du mouvement trotskyste — et le seul témoignage de première main disponible pour la gauche occidentale sur la politique interne de la Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë (Parti communiste albanais, PCA) lors de sa fondation. Son auteur, Sadik Premtaj, avait cofondé le Groupe Jeunesse — l'un des trois groupes communistes qui préexistaient (…)

Lam Wing-kee est mort à l'hôpital Mackay Memorial de Taipei le 3 juillet 2026, trois semaines après avoir fermé la librairie qu'il avait reconstruite en exil et une semaine après l'arrestation de deux autres libraires hongkongais·es en vertu de la législation sur la sécurité nationale. Pendant une décennie, les librairies indépendantes de Hong Kong avaient été le dernier espace institutionnel où l'on pouvait trouver des ouvrages politiques, queer, féministes et dissidents — supprimés d'abord (…)

Lam Wing-kee died in Taipei on 3 July 2026, three weeks after closing the bookshop he had rebuilt in exile and one week after two other Hong Kong booksellers were arrested under national security legislation. For a decade, Hong Kong's independent bookshops had been the last institutional space where political, queer, feminist, and dissident books could be found — first by covert mainland operation, then by the machinery of Hong Kong's own security state. The people who ran those shops paid (…)