This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed. Against the linear temporality of social-democratic evolutionism, Bensaïd's Lenin is a (…)

La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga a confronté devant la Cour de cassation ses arguments à ceux de 14 firmes agrochimiques qui ont fabriqué l'agent orange durant la guerre du Vietnam. Le jugement sera rendu le 16 septembre. ------------------ Paris, reportage Elle a tenu parole et n'a rien lâché. La Franco-Vietnamienne Tran To Nga avait rendez-vous devant la Cour de cassation de Paris, mardi 16 juin, pour faire face à treize multinationales productrices de l'agent orange utilisé par (…)

The debate over origins is irrelevant to defining the nature of the Zionist regime, which is built on the dispossession and erasure of the Palestinians. An Israeli soldier ignores a Palestinian woman as he protects a settler grazing cows on agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Susiya, in Masafer Yatta, January 31, 2026. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills) Before October 7, the view that Zionism and the State of Israel constituted a settler-colonial project was a (…)