“The idea that Jamaat-e-Islami has transformed since the July uprising has not withstood the harsh test of reality. The killings, rapes, and sexual violence of the past year and a half have made it painfully clear: ideologically, Jamaat remains where it always was.”
After the July uprising, a wave of political turbulence swept through Bangladesh. One significant aspect of this moment was the widespread discussion about a possible “transformation” within Jamaat-e-Islami. A political force (…)

Syria's soaring electricity prices are deepening daily hardship and exposing how the government's economic strategy is failing the masses, writes Joseph Daher.
A local resident holds a placard as she takes part in a protest against the soaring electricity prices, in front of the Ministry of Energy in Damascus on January 29, 2026. [GETTY]
Following last October's announcement from the Syrian government that there'd be a rise in electricity prices, the recent implementation of the new (…)

En fait, le Conseil du travail de Nuremberg aurait dû se prononcer dès le 9 janvier sur une injonction provisoire qui aurait permis à Isabella Paape, déléguée du personnel et membre du syndicat IG Metall, d'accéder à nouveau aux locaux de l'entreprise et à l'intranet. Elle avait été licenciée sans préavis en novembre, sans motif, et s'était vu interdire l'accès à l'entreprise.
De toute évidence, l'approche des élections professionnelles n'y est pas pour rien, tout comme la volonté de (…)

President Donald Trump continues ICE raids, arrests of journalists, and seizing election records, as the public turns against him. All of this is about the mid-term election in November, which Republicans could lose.
Photo : Day of Truth & Freedom, Downtown Minneapolis, January 23. (Lone Shaull CC BY 4.0)
Tens of thousands protested Trump's immigration policies this past weekend after the murder of two U.S. citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. There were (…)

Israel's restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.
Assad Abdeen carries the body of his one-month-old son, Saeed, who died of cold exposure, in Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, December 18, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)
Last week, Mohamed Abu Jarad returned to his tent in Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighborhood to find his three-month-old daughter, Shaza, freezing cold and no longer breathing. The (…)

As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.
On the evening of Jan. 27, Israeli settlers launched one of the most devastating pogroms on the Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta in recent memory, attacking three villages simultaneously with what appeared to be an unprecedented level of coordination with the Israeli army. (…)

WITH THE PROTESTS that have broken out in Iran, one has seen all-too-typical reactions from those often referred to as tankies or campists. With the emergence of protests against an autocratic, theocratic regime that has positioned itself in opposition to the US, tankies and campists have been quick to denounce the protests as a US-orchestrated “color revolution.” Indeed, if the Trump administration carries out airstrikes or some other form of military intervention directed at the Iranian (…)

La Chine a annoncé le 24 janvier dernier la destitution du plus haut responsable militaire chinois, le général Zhang Youxia. Cette nouvelle purge fracassante dans l'armée met en lumière de fortes tensions au sein du régime. Mais elle pourrait aussi traduire la volonté du président Xi Jinping de réunir les conditions au sein de l'Armée populaire de libération (APL) pour mener un jour une guerre prolongée contre Taïwan.
Le général Zhang Youxia (张又侠), 75 ans, vice-président de la Commission (…)

Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region.
Inserted into the capitalist world economy, Serbia is in a typical position of a semi-peripheral country. Its strategic geographical position in the (…)

Today's Democratic Party has no recognized leaders, no coherent program to address today's multiplying problems, never had actual members, depends on the kindness of well-to-do donors, has, despite significant gains in a handful of elections in 2025, lost working-class voters of all races, and is stuck in the status quo. Many of its own advisers, officials, candidates, and office holders describe it as chaotic, leaderless, its brand “toxic,” and its broader message muddled. Voters, even (…)

Resistance to President Donald Trump is growing, taking the form of massive, peaceful protest marches, small local rebellions against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Democratic Party election victories, and a gradually changing public opinion. One could even talk about a growing class consciousness. The growth of the resistance comes in reaction to Trump's attacks on public services, on higher education, on freedom of speech, on public employees and their unions, and the cruelty (…)

La flambée des prix de l'électricité en Syrie aggrave les difficultés quotidiennes et révèle à quel point la politique économique du gouvernement ne répond pas aux besoins de la population, écrit Joseph Daher.
Une femme brandit une pancarte lors d'une manifestation contre la flambée des prix de l'électricité, devant le ministère de l'Énergie à Damas, le 29 janvier 2026. [GETTY]
Suite à l'annonce faite en octobre dernier par le gouvernement syrien d'une augmentation des prix de (…)

The radical and democratic experiment of Rojava has been confronted for several weeks with a new military offensive led by the Syrian Transitional Government (STG), supported by Turkey, and is now threatened in its very existence.
Rojava, sometimes also called the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), emerged from the 2011 uprising against the brutal and repressive regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the withdrawal and concentration of his troops in western (…)

Le gouvernement israélien a pratiquement paralysé l'agence chargée des réfugié.e.s palestinien.ne.s, et les sanctions ont entraîné d'importantes coupes budgétaires. Mais l'UNRWA reste l'organisation humanitaire la plus importante en activité à Gaza. Dans une interview accordée à Haaretz, ses dirigeants donnent leur version des faits.
Une école de l'UNRWA cadenassée à Jérusalem-Est, en février dernier. Les dispositions législatives israéliennes dirigées contre l'UNRWA sont entrées en (…)

Lorsque j'ai déménagé à Jérusalem en août, je me suis inscrite à des groupes Signal destinés à organiser mes premières permanences de présence protectrice (c'est-à-dire le fait de rester aux côtés des communautés palestiniennes dans l'espoir de dissuader les violences commises par l'État israélien et les colons). Je me sentais intimidée. Je n'étais allée qu'une seule fois en Israël et en Cisjordanie occupée auparavant, je ne parlais pas hébreu et je suivais les informations qui faisaient (…)

Darshi Thoradeniya's book, A Critical History of Women's Health in Modern Sri Lanka, unearths the submerged and complicated history behind Sri Lanka's much-touted successes in “population control”, which enabled the country to reach replacement-level fertility six years ahead of schedule in 1994
One side to the story, the upbeat and positive, is well known: Sri Lanka has been a poster-child in United Nations development circles for many years for its near-miraculous achievements in the (…)

The election marks a new phase in the junta's attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders.
Photo: Far from signalling a return to civilian rule, the election marks a new phase in the junta's attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders.
This Sunday marks the final round of Myanmar's three-phase general election, yet it hardly resembles a democratic contest. Held amidst a brutal civil war, the process (…)

An estimated 658 abortions occur daily in Sri Lanka. The procedure is illegal except to save the pregnant person's life. Unsafe abortions account for ten to thirteen percent of maternal deaths. In December 2024, a thirteen-year-old girl from Mullaitivu died from an unsafe abortion after allegedly being raped by a family member.
The National People's Power (NPP) government won election with pledges to implement the 2012 Law Commission's recommendations on abortion reform. It has proposed (…)

When I moved to Jerusalem in August, joining Signal groups to coordinate my first shifts of protective presence (the practice of standing with Palestinian communities in hopes of deterring Israeli state and settler violence), I felt intimidated. I had been to Israel and the occupied West Bank only once before, do not speak Hebrew, and was following reports of escalating state-backed settler attacks. Soon, I would be getting in strangers' cars to drive to small villages whose names I was (…)

Tandis qu'Olivier Faure s'engage dans une primaire avec les écologistes et les ex-insoumis, l'ancien président plaide plutôt pour un rassemblement de la gauche dite réformiste. Avec lui à sa tête ?
Pourquoi tout le monde soupçonne un retour de Hollande en 2027 GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
La partition commence à apparaître. Depuis plusieurs mois, et plus encore ces derniers jours, l'hypothèse du retour au premier plan de François Hollande pour la prochaine élection présidentielle fait (…)

À Paris, Marseille ou Montpellier, des cadres et élus écologistes rompent avec leur parti et sa stratégie d'alliance avec le PS, pour rejoindre des listes portées par La France insoumise.
Aux municipales, le ralliement de ces écolos à LFI en disent long sur le dilemme des Verts BLANCA CRUZ / AFP EN BREF
• Des cadres écologistes à Paris, Marseille et Montpellier rejoignent La France insoumise, critiquant l'alliance des Verts avec le PS.
• LFI accueille ces ralliements pour renforcer (…)

À l'été 2013, Ludovic Lamant vient de s'installer à Bruxelles comme correspondant de Mediapart. La création du poste est surtout guidée par la crise des dettes souveraines et les menaces qui pèsent sur l'euro. Mais le journaliste va rapidement s'intéresser à un autre sujet : les assistants de Marine Le Pen. Retrouvez les coulisses de cette enquête que nous avions racontées dans notre newsletter hebdomadaire.
Cette histoire était restée dans l'ombre pendant onze longues années, en dépit de (…)