Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book The Making and Unmaking of Ukrainian Working Class (Berghahn, 2024), which recounts how economic changes altered the values of the working class in Ukraine, focusing on his city, Kryvyi Rih, in the south-east of the country. Kryvyi Rih was considered the “iron heart of the USSR”. It has several mines and a large steelworks. It is the birthplace of President (…)

Thousands of Filipinos across the country joined the launch of the White Friday Protest, a weekly nationwide noise barrage and candle-lighting campaign organized by the Trillion Peso March Movement (TPMM) to demand accountability and transparency in government spending. The historic 10.10 launch, marked by simultaneous gatherings from Metro Manila to Cebu, Iloilo, and Bacolod, transformed streets, churches, and community spaces into hubs of peaceful protest and collective prayer. (…)

Les Palestiniens devront faire face à la plus dure des vérités : quelle que soit la voie qu'ils choisissent – la soumission silencieuse ou la résistance armée –, le monde a déjà échoué à empêcher le génocide de leur peuple. C'est un fait irréversible. « Les mots n'ont plus aucun sens. » C'est l'un des sentiments les plus courants que j'entends de mes proches, amis et collègues qui sont encore à Gaza. Deux ans après le génocide implacable perpétré par Israël, il ne nous reste plus (…)

[pétition soutenue notamment par l'Atelier féministe (Lviv) et Sphère association de femmes (Kharkiv)] Au nom des femmes ukrainiennes, nous vous proposons de soutenir l'initiative visant à instaurer le 8 décembre comme Journée du mouvement féministe ukrainien. Le 8 décembre est une date historique dans l'histoire du mouvement féministe ukrainien. Ce jour-là, en 1884, à Stanislavov (aujourd'hui Ivano-Frankivsk), à l'initiative de la fondatrice du mouvement féministe Natalia Kobrinska, la (…)

The cultural boycott of Israel is gaining momentum. Artists around the world are increasingly refusing to collaborate with Israeli institutions, which they view as complicit in the occupation of Palestine. In Czechia, this movement has gained little traction. Photo Petr Zewlakk Vrabec / Alarm “Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in South Africa, in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, it would be (…)

Pro-Israel groups and Buddhist extremists are expanding Israeli influence in Sri Lanka, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment as the government maintains ambivalence around Palestine and the Gaza genocide Mohamed Suhail, a 21-year-old student, was searching for lodgings in the Colombo suburb of Dehiwala on 23 October 2024 when a mobile police unit arrested him near Israeli consular premises. His supposed offence was not carrying his national identity card. A magistrate ordered his release after (…)

In Romania, Poland, Hungary and Czechia, far-right and populist parties are cynically using Ukrainian refugees as a political football. It mirrors what is happening in the west of the continent with non-European immigration. Over six million Ukrainians have settled elsewhere in Europe since Russia's full-scale invasion of their country in February 2022. Approximately 4.3 million have been granted temporary protection. This allows them to reside and work freely in European Union member (…)

A military decree has brought the villages of Nabi Samwil, Beit Iksa and Khalaila under 'seam zone' rule, from which all Palestinians but local residents are banned. But actually, for 20 years a raft of edicts like this one have been harassing locals, who now fear for their fate An Israeli army checkpoint near Nabi Samwil in the West Bank. Credit: Yahel Gazit Piles of garbage and ruined cars with flat tires stand between new cars welcoming visitors to a small village northwest of (…)

La décision du Parti communiste sud-africain (SACP) de se présenter de manière indépendante aux prochaines élections municipales doit être saluée. Depuis des décennies, les socialistes indépendants et d'autres militants soutiennent que la subordination du SACP au sein de l'Alliance a affaibli l'indépendance politique de la classe ouvrière et lié le destin de la politique socialiste à l'ANC. Cette décision — même si elle est tardive — représente un pas potentiel vers le rétablissement de (…)

The decision of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to stand independently in the coming local government elections must be welcomed. For decades, independent socialists and other militants have argued that the SACP's subordination within the Alliance weakened the political independence of the working class and tied the fate of socialist politics to the ANC. This decision—even if belated—represents a potential step forward in re-establishing the independence of the working class and (…)

Activists still detained after the nationwide protests last month have formed a political prisoners' union, open to political prisoners nationwide. Former political prisoners support formation of Political Prisoners Union On October 4, as many as 27 detainees at the Metro Jaya Regional Police (Polda) Detention Centre in Jakarta formed a union called the Indonesian Political Prisoners Union (Serikat Tahanan Politik, STP). They formed the union after one of the detainees experienced (…)

Alors que nous commémorons les deux ans du 7 octobre 2023, nous, Palestinien·nes d'Europe, prenons la parole avec clarté et détermination. Ce jour-là n'est pas venu de rien. Il est le produit de 75 ans de dépossession, 18 ans de siège brutal et d'innombrables agressions contre notre peuple. Crédit Photo : DR Le peuple palestinien subit l'une des campagnes d'extermination les plus violentes et systématiques de l'histoire moderne Depuis près de deux ans, le peuple palestinien subit l'une (…)

Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) est sociologue. Les recherches menées dans le cadre de sa thèse de doctorat à Sciences Po (Paris) sont rassemblées dans le livre The making and unmaking of Ukrainian working class (Bergahn, 2024), qui raconte comment les changements économiques ont modifié les valeurs de la classe ouvrière en Ukraine, en se concentrant sur sa ville, Kryvyi Rih, dans le sud-est du pays. Kryvyi Rih était considérée comme le « cœur de fer de l'URSS ». Elle compte plusieurs mines (…)

From Hong Kong's cells to the streets of London and Taipei, stories of activists, former prisoners and exiles who resist as Beijing extends control beyond the city's borders When Claudia Mo first entered prison, in February 2021, she had the impression of having plunged into a Kafka novel. A former journalist and opposition parliamentarian in Hong Kong, arrested along with 46 other democratic activists accused of having organised unofficial primary elections, Mo found herself catapulted (…)

La victoire fulgurante de Zohran Mamdani aux primaires démocrates pour la mairie de New York, et son succès imminent aux élections générales de novembre, mettent en lumière des éléments déterminants de la crise politique qui touche la ville et, plus largement, les États-Unis. Quel avenir pour New York si Zorhan Mamdani remporte les élections ? La campagne de Mamdani porte sur la question du coût de la vie qui rend New York difficilement vivable, voire invivable, pour une grande partie de (…)

In response to the illegal, colonial Israeli-US “Trump plan,” Palestinian civil society insists on full Palestinian rights and calls for escalating BDS pressure to end all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel's regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Occupied Palestine, 9 October 2025 – In response to the so-called Trump Plan, a scheme primarily designed by Israel's fascist government to save it from its unprecedented global (…)