Dans cet entretien réalisé en juin 2023 par trois camarades, Alain Badiou revient sur certains éléments de son autobiographie politique publié récemment : Mémoires d'outre-politique (1937-1985) (éd. Flammarion). Revenant en particulier sur son expérience militante, mais aussi sur l'héritage de Marx, Lénine et Mao, ou encore le bilan des révolutions russe et chinoise, il insiste sur la nécessité pour les révolutionnaires de refaire du dépérissement de l'État une question centrale. (...)

On April 18 the new president of Columbia University and the previous director of London School of Economics, Minouche Shafik, called the New York Police Department to have Columbia students arrested for building a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on campus to demand the university's divestment from Israel. The arrest of 108 students—the largest set of arrests at Columbia since the antiwar protests of 1968—came hours after Shafik's interrogation at Congress about allegations that anti-Semitism (...)

Yang Kang reports on two recent Palestine solidarity events in Taipei and their significance in drawing links with Taiwan's own struggle for self-determination.
In late November, an emergent network named “For Peace Taiwan” (可以自由巴) organized two solidarity events for Palestine in Taipei. I was the emcee for both events. The first event was on November 21. The second—a rally on November 25—attracted around eight hundred local and international attendees. The rally featured speeches, (...)

[Selon le Washington Post, « l'armée israélienne a ordonné lundi 6 mai à quelque 100 000 civils vivant dans certaines parties de Rafah d'évacuer “immédiatement” vers une zone dite humanitaire, affirmant qu'elle opérerait avec une “force extrême” dans ces secteurs ». L'UNRWA a twitté ce 6 mai : « Une offensive israélienne à Rafah signifierait davantage de souffrances et de morts parmi les civils. […] L'agence maintiendra une présence à Rafah aussi longtemps que possible et continuera à (...)

“On Friday, April 26, at 13:00, a group of settlers invaded the southern part of Madama village [south of Nablus] and departed shortly afterward,” the Palestine Liberation Organization's Negotiations Affairs Department reports on its website. It also reports that on the same day, at 11:45 A.M., “a group of settlers entered the farming lands of civilians in the Al-Khalayel area in Al-Mughayyir village [northeast of Ramallah] and shot at several farmers. At 14:55, a group of settlers invaded (...)

The Israeli army has launched the latest exodus of Gaza residents, who are forced to choose between the ruins of Khan Yunis and a coastal strip without water and sewage infrastructure
Gazans who fled Rafah for Khan Yunis on Monday. “Evacuation” doesn't convey a fraction of the dread, rage and exhaustion.Credit: AFP
According to Palestinian reports, 22 Palestinians, among them eight children including babies, were killed by Israeli bombs and shells in eastern Rafah overnight into (...)