Report on day two of the 2026 anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil
After a busy first day of meetings, discussions, and panels that were challenging in good ways, as revolutionary activists from different countries, involved in different struggles, shared and contrasted their ideas, the end-of-day panel came as a shock. Speakers called for criticism of Venezuela's Maduro government to be silenced, denounced Ukraine for slaughtering Russians in the east, and, most alarmingly, (…)

In the air-conditioned boardrooms of Manila and the sterile administrative halls of Cotabato City, the Bangsamoro narrative has become a masterpiece of political marketing. We are fed a steady diet of milestones: 26,145 decommissioned combatants, billion-peso allocations for camp transformation, and high-profile surrenders. But for those living in the shadows of the Liguasan Marsh, in the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, and the Special Geographic Area (SGA), these (…)