Gen Z organisers overthrew President Andry Rajoelina, but the country's power brokers are attempting to maintain the old system. Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, who took power following massive demonstrations by the population and particularly the youth under the Gen Z banner, rapidly backpedalled. He announced the dissolution of the principal regime institutions except for the National Assembly. One day later, Randrianirina reversed this declaration. Firstly, because the High (…)

- Madagascar

Events accelerated this Saturday, 11 October in Madagascar. Following the sudden insurrection of 'Generation Z' a fortnight ago and its brutal repression (24 deaths according to the United Nations), President Andry Rajoelina drew closer to the army by appointing on 6 October a close associate, General Zafisambo, as the new prime minister. As in a remake of recurrent power seizures in Madagascar, the military of Capsat (Corps d'Armée des Personnels et des Services Administratifs et (…)

- Madagascar

The second weekend in October saw Manchester host the major political festival The World Transformed. Whilst there was enormous enthusiasm for radical left-wing politics, there was also a disregard for the problems of Ukraine, as well as the Eastern EU countries. The political festival The World Transformed has run regularly since 2016 and opens space for discussion about left-wing politics in Britain. It originally emerged from enthusiasm at the moment when Jeremy Corbyn became the new (…)

- On the Left (UK) / Ukraine2022, Your Party (Great Britain), Green Parties (UK)

Many perceive the BRICS countries as a counterweight to the dollar-dominated monetary order. However, the facts speak for themselves: at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro (6–7 July 2025), no real desire to break away from the US currency was expressed. De-dollarisation remains a distant prospect. Many BRICS supporters claim that the bloc is moving towards de-dollarisation. Is this really the case? Nowhere in the 126-point Rio de Janeiro BRICS leaders' declaration: Vladimir Putin's (…)

- Economy (World) / BRICS / BRICS+, Dollar / USD (US), India [Bharat], China, South Africa, Currency system

For nearly four centuries, the world economy has been on a path of ever-greater integration that even two world wars could not totally derail. This long march of globalisation was powered by rapidly increasing levels of international trade and investment, coupled with vast movements of people across national borders and dramatic changes in transportation and communication technology. According to economic historian J. Bradford DeLong, the value of the world economy (measured at fixed 1990 (…)

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A critique of the political strategies of the 'Union of the Post-Soviet Left' (PSL) and the coalition 'Peace from Below', as well as their allies amongst the Mens' movement/Manosphere, by an anarchist, poet and feminist living in Ukraine. My name is Galina Rymbu. I am a poet, translator, feminist and anarchist of Moldovan-Romanian and Ukrainian origin. I was born and raised in Western Siberia, in the company town of Chkalovsky in the city of Omsk. My father is a former locksmith, for the (…)

- Eastern Europe & Russian Federation / Ukraine2022, Campism vs Internationalism /Tankies