One year after Sri Lanka's National People's Power (NPP) secured an historic two-thirds parliamentary majority, Janaka Biyanwila offers a critical assessment “from below and to the left” of this progressive coalition's achievements and compromises. Emerging from the 2022 Aragalaya uprising that disrupted the Rajapaksa regime's hegemonic bloc, the NPP has constructed a new governing alliance based on anti-corruption and efficient economic governance, whilst maintaining a militarised (…)

“The contemporary political landscape of Bangladesh reflects a complex interplay of crisis and transformation. The upheavals of 2024–2025, marked by student-led uprisings, the fall of a long-standing ruling establishment, and the formation of an interim government, have opened a new phase in state restructuring and democratic possibility. Yet the transition remains incomplete and contested.” Introduction The political history of Bangladesh is inseparably intertwined with the liberation (…)

Les agences anti-corruption ukrainiennes — le Bureau national anti-corruption d'Ukraine (NABU) et le Bureau spécialisé du procureur anti-corruption (SAPO) — ont révélé un système de pots-de-vin de 100 millions de dollars (92 millions d'euros) chez Energoatom, l'entreprise publique d'énergie nucléaire. Le cerveau présumé de l'affaire est Timur Mindich, le partenaire d'affaires de longue date du président Volodymyr Zelensky. Mindich s'est enfui en Israël quelques heures avant les perquisitions (…)