An interview about whether promoting communism has really been banned in the Czech Republic and what this means for the local left-wing scene. Pavel Uhl is a Czech lawyer specialising in public law. He provides legal services for the organisation Člověk v tísni (People in Need) and is a board member of Transparency International Czech Republic. From 1 January, promoting and supporting communism has become a criminal offence according to numerous media outlets and politicians. What does (…)

After 22 years as general secretary of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, (a network of 36 peasant organisation in Pakistan), I stepped down and pave the way for a women activist to be elected as general secretary of PKRC. The normal tradition in South Asian Left movement is that, once you are elected as one of main leader of an organisation, that is life long post. However, in the past, I vacated my post as general secretary of Labour Party Pakistan after 10 years. This is really to (…)

Since 1951, the USA has had an agreement granting it the right to maintain virtually unlimited military bases on Greenland. During the Cold War, they had 27 bases and other military installations with a total of 10,000 soldiers. Today, they have only one base with approximately 200 soldiers. This base, Pituffik (formerly Thule), is located far from most inhabited areas of Greenland. The Pituffik base housed 6,000 soldiers during the Cold War. The existing agreement means that the USA could (…)

A “real opposition” exists in Venezuela, an alternative to both the extreme right wing of María Corina Machado and the increasingly authoritarian government of Maduro. This opposition, operating largely out of the public eye, is usually defined as dissident Chavismo, but also encompasses many other democratic and leftist forces. Amongst its many members is constitutional lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, a prominent figure in the 2017 Constituent Assembly, now in exile in Colombia to escape (…)

Suppose a state drunk on the sadistic pleasure of mass expulsion, torture and genocidal annihilation, in the name of 'total victory,' finds itself in a mental health crisis – if there is no psychiatric healer to treat it, can it at least be diagnosed? Photo: A Palestinian man records a burning truck after an Israeli settler attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank in November.Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP “The Arabs have 52 states? Let them go there.” (…)

Eleni Varika, daughter of the historic leader of the Trotskist movement Vasos Varika, was born in Athens in 1949 and studied at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the University of Paris 7. She participated in the Trotskist Communist Revolutionary Front in the Metropolitan and since 1977 in the OKDE after the unification of the two organizations. Shee was a key member of the newspaper Roadblock and was active in the (…)

As Iran's new wave of nationwide protests enters its 12th day—and as reports of a widespread internet blackout since last night circulate—an old debate has returned to the center of political discussion with new speed: are “calls to action” from political figures driving the streets, or are they mainly an attempt to ride a movement that is already happening? BBC Persian tackled this question on its program Goftogoo-ye Vizheh, hosted by Farnaz Ghazi-Zadeh, in a conversation with Leila (…)

Le vendredi 9 janvier 2026, Eleni Varikas s'est éteinte à Paris. Son travail s'est concentré sur la théorie féministe, le colonialisme, les origines du racisme et les problématiques de l'exclusion. À travers une lecture exigeante de l'universalisme moderne, Eleni Varikas n'a cessé d'en interroger les angles morts, les exclusions constitutives et les hiérarchies qu'il prétend pourtant abolir. Le vendredi 9 janvier 2026, Eleni Varikas s'est éteinte à Paris, ville où elle a vécu et travaillé (…)

ELENI VARIKAS, A revolutionary Marxist-Feminist French-Greek professor of political philosophy, best known for her pioneering use of the concept of gender in French research, died of heart failure in Paris in early January 2026. She was 76 years old and the life partner of Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. Both were contributors to ATC and good friends of its sponsoring organization, Solidarity. For those of us who knew Eleni personally, our memories (…)

Eleni Varikas, féministe, philosophe, militante et camarade, est l'une des nôtres ! Elle nous a quittés le 10 janvier, emportant avec elle notre plus profonde admiration et notre plus grand respect ! Eleni Varikas intervenant à Paris en 2017. Son engagement en faveur de la connaissance et de la recherche scientifiques, ses enseignements et ses ouvrages, richement écrits et traduits en plusieurs langues, ainsi que son activisme internationaliste continueront certainement à inspirer des (…)

When one of our own leaves us, we are left with a sad feeling of loss and longing, while at the same time bearing the responsibility of not letting their legacy be erased by the fine dust of time. Eleni Varikas speaking in Paris in 2017. Eleni Varikas, feminist, philosopher, activist and comrade, is one of us ! She left us on 10 January, taking with her our deepest admiration and respect ! Her commitment to scientific knowledge and research, her teachings and her works, richly written (…)

Il y a près de six mois, le président philippin Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. a été contraint de lancer sa campagne anti-corruption au milieu des pluies torrentielles qui se sont abattues en juillet et des ravages causés par les super typhons Tino et Uwan. Ces événements ont mis en évidence la faiblesse et l'inefficacité des programmes de lutte contre les inondations, ainsi que la collusion entre les responsables des travaux publics, les personnalités politiques et les entrepreneurs. Pourtant, (…)

The enactment of the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G), 2025 represents the legal culmination of a process that has been unfolding in India for over a decade: the gradual displacement of employment as a legally enforceable right, redefined instead as an administratively mediated outcome. While public discourse has disproportionately centred on the symbolic removal of the word “Gandhi” from the title of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural (…)

Almost six months ago, Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. was compelled to launch his anti-corruption campaign amidst the continuous heavy rainfall in July and the devastation caused by super typhoons Tino and Uwan. These events exposed weak and ghost flood control projects, as well as collusion among public works personnel, political figures, and contractors. Yet, six months later, with no major results, two commissioners of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), (…)

L'utilisation intensive des réseaux sociaux, plus que d'autres formes de présence sur Internet, à l'exception peut-être des jeux, génère des comportements comparables à d'autres formes de dépendance aux drogues, tels que la consommation excessive et la gueule de bois psychologique, voire physique. Dans cet article, Francisco Louçã soutient que c'est le produit vendu par cette nouvelle oligarchie. Les auteurs qui ont contribué à promouvoir le concept de « technoféodalisme » s'accordent sur (…)

L'ancien premier ministre capitalise sur la crise internationale pour revenir dans le jeu politique. Du droit international à l'unité nationale, il esquisse une offre présidentielle classique, encore floue sur le social, mais calibrée pour un électorat en quête de stabilité. Venezuela oblige, Dominique de Villepin est l'invité des grandes émissions politiques. Après BFMTV dimanche, c'est dans la matinale de France Inter hier qu'il est venu parler du monde multipolaire et du respect du (…)

Il y a 30 ans, à la mort de François Mitterrand, Roger Martelli écrivait le texte suivant. Regards l'a republié le 9 janvier 2026, sans en changer une virgule. Ce que nous faisons à notre tour.[PR] Quand, le 9 septembre 1965, François Mitterrand annonce sa candidature à la première élection présidentielle au suffrage universel, il ouvre une page nouvelle de l'histoire de la gauche. Quand, le 17 mai 1995, il descend les marches du perron de l'Élysée, il la ferme irrémédiablement. Sa mort (…)

Dans la nuit du vendredi 2 au samedi 3 janvier, les États-Unis d'Amérique ont lancé une opération militaire de grande ampleur sur la capitale du Venezuela, Caracas. Le président vénézuélien, Nicolás Maduro, et sa femme, Cilia Flores, ont été enlevé.es et placé.es en prison à New York. Selon les premières estimations, 78 personnes seraient mortes au cours de l'opération, parmi lesquelles au moins une civile. Cette agression impérialiste et coloniale ordonnée par Donald Trump viole ouvertement (…)

Au moment où j'écris ce billet, l'Iran connaît son douzième jour de manifestations. L'élite politique a recours à toute une série de tactiques répressives pour assurer sa propre pérennité et réprimer les mouvements populaires ; parallèlement, sans leader politique clair ni structure organisationnelle unifiée, il est difficile pour la foule de fusionner pour constituer une force capable de menacer l'existence même du régime. Au moment où j'écris ce billet, l'Iran connaît son douzième jour (…)

As I write this post, Iran is experiencing its twelfth day of protests. This present cycle of unrest was ignited on December 28, 2025, by a group of merchants in Tehran expressing their dissatisfaction with the plummeting value of the country's currency. As a point of reference, Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar in 2015, and today it's hovering around 1,470,000 per dollar. That's a 4,494-percent increase in a decade. This sharp plunge has put particular pressure on (…)

We reproduce here a portion of the second chapter of Zbigniew M. Kowalewski's work, Révolutions ukrainiennes, 1917-1919 & 2014, which presents the historical characteristics of Russian imperialism. We have not reproduced its original footnotes. This fundamental book was released in Paris in September 2025. It is the product of several decades of research by the author on the missed encounter between the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions of the early twentieth century, as well as on the (…)

1. Chronicle of an Announced Attack THE UNITED STATES' military intervention against Venezuela, culminating in Nicolás Maduro's kidnapping on January 3, 2026, has been in preparation for a long time. In an article published in February 2019, entitled “Donald Trump, the End of Globalism, and the Crisis in Venezuela,”(1) I argued that the then-president revealed with unprecedented candor the true objectives of U.S. imperialism: not the defense of democracy or human rights, nor the (…)

Depuis plusieurs jours les quartiers à majorité kurde de Sheikh Massoud, et Ashrafieh à Alep sont assiégés par des brigades de djihadistes intégrées à l'armée syrienne. Déjà soumis à un blocus, les populations civiles subissent désormais des bombardements. On compte déjà une dizaine de morts civils, dont des enfants. Les pénuries d'eau, d'électricité et de produits de premières nécessités annoncent une catastrophe humanitaire. Ces attaques se déroulent alors que les négociations pour (…)

Le Forum social Maghreb suit avec une vive inquiétude l'escalade de la répression politique en Tunisie, caractérisée par l'emprisonnement de dirigeants politiques, de journalistes, d'avocats, de syndicalistes et de militants de la société civile. Il suit également la détérioration de l'état de santé de plusieurs prisonniers politiques et prisonniers d'opinion dans les prisons tunisiennes, notamment l'avocat et militant des droits humains Ayachi Hammami, l'ancien juge administratif Ahmed (…)

Les plateformes numériques et l'hypercommunication ont trahi la promesse originelle d'Internet : celle d'un espace voué au débat public. Dans cette distorsion, l'accroissement des libertés s'est accompagné d'un contrôle toujours plus strict. Daniel Borges analyse ces enjeux en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Jürgen Habermas et Nancy Fraser. Sur Internet, où rien ne disparaît, les échanges se font de plus en plus éphémères. En quelques minutes, un tweet devient obsolète, une vidéo ne (…)

We are in the 102nd week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays' campaign, while the execution government of Iran, over the past year (2025), has hanged more than 2,200 of our fellow citizens on the gallows. The “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign has entered its one hundred and second consecutive week, spanning 55 prisons across Iran, at a time marked by an unprecedented rise in executions during 2025. This escalation includes the issuance of death sentences against political prisoners—among (…)

The unrest is growing and now includes a Kurdish general strike and participation by the Baluch and Azeri ethnic minorities. The latest wave of protests in Iran started on December 28, 2025 with a strike by Tehran bazar merchants/shopkeepers against the decline of the currency value and nationwide economic collapse. As of January 8, the Iranian human rights organization, HARANA reports that 285 protests have taken place in 92 cities in 27 of Iran's 31 states. At least 36 people (…)