Three months after the September uprising that toppled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and brought Nepal's first female head of government to power, the country remains suspended between revolutionary rupture and uncertain transition. The interim government of Sushila Karki has a single mandate: conduct elections on 5 March 2026. Whether it can do so—and whether the uprising's energy will translate into lasting political change—are questions now being contested across Nepal's media and civil (…)

LGBT communities in South-East and East Asia face a contradictory landscape: legislative breakthroughs in some countries coincide with intensified repression in others. The past year's developments illuminate both the conditions under which movements advance and the mechanisms through which states marginalise sexual and gender minorities. Feminist and progressive publications across the region have documented these struggles, foregrounding the voices of those directly affected. Indonesia: (…)

Ninety years ago today, on 18 December 1935, the 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 (𝐋𝐒𝐒𝐏) was founded in Kumari Jayawardena's words, as a “broad based radical party instead of a strictly Marxist party...”, by a mostly Marxist group of 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 members. This couple of dozen men and (three) women declared the new party's “fundamental objective” to be the “establishment of a Socialist Society”. The founding manifesto set out three main aims and 22 immediate demands. This is the Manifesto (…)

Some in China are blaming Mongolia for the dust storms they are experiencing. But what are the real causes ? People in Beijing wearing masks as a massive dust storm hit the city in 2023. AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/Alamy Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbour Mongolia. Much of the dust over Beijing in the spring of 2023, for example, originated (…)

On Monday 15 December 2025, the Malind Maklew indigenous community from Wanam village, Ilwayab district, Merauke regency, South Papua province carried out a Red Cross planting action and imposed customary sasi as a form of prohibition against all activities by PT Jhonlin Group, owned by Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, commonly known as Haji Isam. The Red Cross planting action by indigenous peoples was carried out at several locations that had been forcibly cleared and seized by the company for the (…)

When the two murderers stood at Bondi Beach, massacring the innocents, a woman stood at the Khan Yunis beach trying to push out water that had flooded the tent she calls home with a broom. She stood and shouted, showing her shivering children their worn-out, ragged and water-soaked clothes, but no one listened to her. The world had switched to the massacre in Sydney. Volunteers from the ZAKA Search and Rescue recovery team and Hatzolah Emergency Medical Services are assisting the (…)

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, la lutte des ex-GKN et le plan de réindustrialisation écologique et participative, ainsi que l'idée d'une usine socialement intégrée, ont subi en août un nouveau coup dur. Chaque fois, le risque est que ce coup soit “mortel”, compte tenu de l'épuisement prolongé auquel la lutte est soumise. Nous en sommes maintenant au huitième mois de chômage, après quinze mois précédents sans salaire. En août, deux faits se sont ajoutés : un investisseur institutionnel, (…)

« Insorgiamo ! » (insurgeons-nous !). Depuis 4 ans et demi, la lutte des ex-GKN à Florence est devenue un symbole national de résistance ouvrière et d'innovation sociale. Le 9 juillet 2021, les 422 salarié.e.s étaient licenciés par mail, sans préavis. Le groupe britannique « délocalisait ». La réaction fut immédiate dans cette usine à fortes traditions de lutte : occupation par le « Collectif des travailleurs de GKN ». Depuis, ils et elles sont de toute les luttes, « Insorgiamo ! ». Sur (…)

Qu'il s'agisse d'Amazon, de DHL ou de Lieferando : les fêtes de fin d'année sont synonymes de stress extrême pour beaucoup de monde. [Ô toi, l'exploiteur fait référence au cantique traditionnel qui célèbre le temps de Noël « O du fröhliche », Ici « fröhlich » (joyeux) est remplacé par « ausbeuterisch » (exploiteur). NdT] Ce n'est pas lui qui apporte les cadeaux, mais principalement les livreurs . Photo : domaine public « Les cloches ne sonnent jamais aussi doucement » est un chant de (…)

L'espoir qui avait jailli chez le peuple bangladais autour de Muhammad Younous, lauréat du prix Nobel, ne se réduisait pas à une simple confiance en un individu. Il exprimait plutôt un désir profond de transformation du fonctionnement de l'État, de la moralité politique, des modes de gouvernance et du caractère général de la politique – en un mot, un nouvel ordre politique. Après des années d'autoritarisme axé sur les partis, de violence lors des élections, de corruption dans les (…)

A supporter holds a portrait of José Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the opposition Republican Party, after results show him leading in the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile. AP Photo / Matias Delacroix Chileans have elected the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago. In a runoff held on Dec. 14, 2025, José Antonio Kast, a Republican Party ex-congressman and two-time former (…)

Amnesty International Australia condemns the shocking, targeted attack carried out on the evening of Sunday 14 December against members of the Jewish community during a festival celebration marking the first day of Hanukkah in Bondi. We extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of people who were killed, to all who were injured, and to the Jewish community in Australia who are grieving in the wake of this devastating act of violence. We unequivocally condemn this (…)

At the time of the US escalation in Vietnam, Indonesia was the scene of one of the worst bloodbaths in modern history, committed under the auspices of Washington and London. Sixty years later, the archipelago is at the heart of youth revolts against the privileges of the oligarchy and corruption, in defence of a democracy dearly won back since 1998. A democracy that the current president Prabowo Subianto openly repudiates by making General Suharto, the perpetrator of the aforementioned (…)

There has been an outpouring of solidarity and condemnation by community organisations and political parties about the killing of 15 people in Bondi at a Chanukah by the Sea event on December 14. Some, such as Amnesty International, are warning against governments exploiting the tragedy to enact new anti-protest, anti-freedom-of-expression laws. The Jewish Council of Australia said: “We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening … (…)

Socialist Alliance expresses its full solidarity with the victims and survivors of the horrific December 14 massacre at Bondi Beach on Gadigal Country. The mass shooting at a Hanukkah event targeted people of Jewish faith while at a religious festival. Antisemitism, like all forms of racism, is utterly repugnant. The Jewish community, like all those who face racism, should all be able to gather, and practice their culture, in safety. This is a further trauma for members of the Bondi (…)

The hope that once emerged among the people of Bangladesh around Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus was not merely confidence in an individual. Rather, it was the expression of a deeper yearning for a transformation of the state system, political morality, modes of governance, and the overall character of politics—in a word, a new political settlement. After years of party-centered authoritarianism, election-related violence, administrative corruption, predatory development, and democratic (…)

BANGKOK, Thaïlande (17 décembre 2025) – Le Forum asiatique pour les droits humains et le développement (FORUM-ASIA) exprime sa solidarité avec les communautés touchées par la série d'inondations dévastatrices qui ont frappé le Sri Lanka, l'Indonésie, la Thaïlande et les Philippines. Nous dénonçons les faillites politiques actuelles qui continuent de mettre en danger la vie, les droits et l'environnement des populations. FORUM-ASIA appelle les gouvernements asiatiques ainsi que les (…)

BANGKOK, Thailand (17 December 2025) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) expresses solidarity with communities affected by the series of devastating floods across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. We denounce the ongoing policy failures that continue to put people's lives, rights, and environments at risk. FORUM-ASIA calls on governments across Asia as well as corporate actors to take immediate and concrete action to address the root causes (…)

A l'heure de l'escalade US au Vietnam, l'Indonésie fut le théâtre de l'un des pires bains de sang de l'histoire moderne, commis sous les auspices de Washington et Londres. Soixante ans plus tard, l'archipel est au cœur des révoltes de la jeunesse contre les privilèges de l'oligarchie et la corruption, en défense d'une démocratie chèrement reconquise depuis 1998. Une démocratie que renie sans fard l'actuel président Subianto qui fait du général Suharto, auteur desdits massacres, un héros (…)

With José Antonio Kast's victory, Pinochetism returns to power through electoral means, articulating neoliberal restoration, moral authoritarianism, and anti-communism as a response to Chile's crisis. On Sunday 14 December, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast won by a wide margin (58.2%) in the presidential run-off against the incumbent government candidate and member of the Partido Comunista de Chile (Communist Party of Chile), Jeannette Jara (41.8%). The result falls within (…)