After Pope Francis's relatively “open” and “reformist” pontificate, will the Catholic Church face a traditionalist backlash, like American democracy in Trump's second term? The Catholic Church is, of course, an institution much older than modern divisions of right-left, liberalism-conservatism, and even traditionalism-progressivism. Nevertheless, global public opinion, at least in Western democracies, will await the results of the conclave, essentially asking themselves just one (…)

En se concentrant principalement sur l'antisémitisme tout en négligeant l'instrumentalisation de ce concept par l'État et en ignorant le discours hégémonique anti-migration, le prochain Congrès Antifa à Berlin ne parvient pas à remplir ses propres aspirations antifascistes et anti-allemandes.[AN] Source de l'image : Vor den Karren gespannt. Photo de hoch3fotografie sur Unsplash Le congrès antifasciste « Contreforme : Alliance contre la formation autoritaire » doit avoir lieu à Berlin (…)

L'aide internationale est actuellement la cible d'attaques et de remises en cause. Gelée temporairement par la nouvelle administration Trump aux États-Unis, elle fait l'objet d'importantes coupes budgétaires du côté européen, notamment en France et en Belgique. Cela témoigne tout à la fois du recul moral et des contradictions de l'aide. Elon Musk, en charge de « l'efficacité gouvernementale » (DOGE), vient d'annoncer la fermeture de l'agence américaine d'aide au développement, USAID, qu'il (…)

We often hear that the new Trump administration inaugurates the age of technofeudalism. Just look at Elon Musk, pontificating about so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) democracy from the Oval Office while undemocratically occupying the US Treasury payment system. But is the administration simply using bullying as a mode of power, as Adam Tooze recently diagnosed it, destroying institutions without measure or plan? The smashing of the US Agency for International (…)

TAIWANESE SEMICONDUCTOR manufacturing giant TSMC announced today that it intends to invest 100 billion USD in the US over the next four years. TSMC's plans for investment were announced jointly by the company and US president Donald Trump, who suggested that TSMC could avoid the tariffs he has threatened to impose on Taiwanese semiconductors with the deal, though it is unclear how that would work out as an investment framework. According to TSMC chair CC Wei, the investment will be for a (…)

Les communistes indonésiens ont joué un rôle crucial dans le développement de la conscience nationale parmi les ouvriers et les paysans, contre la domination coloniale néerlandaise. Après la répression sanglante de la gauche indonésienne dans les années 1960, le régime de Suharto a effacé la gauche des livres d'histoire. Critique de Communication against Capital : Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia par Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025). Dans Communication against (…)

Que Washington et Moscou aient choisi le royaume saoudien comme lieu de réunion entre leurs délégations pour discuter des perspectives de la guerre qui se déroule en Ukraine depuis que les forces russes ont envahi ce pays il y a trois ans, est une illustration claire des profonds changements qui se produisent sous nos yeux dans les affaires internationales. Que Washington et Moscou aient choisi le royaume saoudien comme lieu de réunion entre leurs délégations pour discuter des perspectives (…)

Dans une remarquable démonstration de solidarité entre mouvements, la Serbie est témoin d'une alliance sans précédent entre les étudiants occupant les universités et les cinq principales fédérations syndicales. Après des mois de luttes séparées, ces forces convergent pour des manifestations du Premier Mai qui pourraient remodeler le paysage politique du pays. La manifestation conjointe, prévue le 1er mai à 14h devant le bâtiment du Gouvernement à Belgrade, représente une évolution (…)

FORMER SUNFLOWER MOVEMENT participant Johanne Liou is to be deported from the US next month, facing charges related to drug trafficking and fraud. The arrest was conducted by ICE, with Taiwanese authorities stating that they requested Liou's extradition. Liou did not appear at the New Taipei District Prosecutors' Office in 2023, which resulted in charges against her. This is not Liou's first run-in with the law, as Liou faced charges related to introducing women in the US to sex work in (…)

Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness among workers and peasants, against Dutch colonial rule. After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto's regime wrote the left out of the history books. Review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025). In Communication against Capital, Rianne Subijanto tells the story of how socialists in 1920s (…)

That Washington and Moscow have chosen the Saudi kingdom as the venue for a meeting between their delegations to discuss the prospects of the war that has been ongoing in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded that country three years ago, is evidence of the profound changes occurring in international affairs before our eyes. That Washington and Moscow have chosen the Saudi kingdom as the venue for a meeting between their delegations to discuss the prospects of the war that has been ongoing (…)

The federal election result was a disaster for the NDP, but it was also a catastrophe for the entire labour movement. There is something terribly wrong with the messaging that unions are delivering to their membership. Surely, on this day, the alarm bells must be going off in the Canadian Labour Congress and in every other labour federation across the country. How can it be that Conservatives won every seat in the Hamilton-Windsor corridor—the industrial heartland of the nation? Clearly, it (…)

Comment expliquer que les conservateurs aient remporté tous les sièges dans le corridor Hamilton-Windsor — le cœur industriel du pays ? Manifestement, soit les syndiqués n'écoutent plus du tout leurs dirigeants syndicaux, à tous les niveaux du mouvement, soit les syndicats ont perdu la capacité de communiquer efficacement avec leur propre base. Le résultat de l'élection fédérale a été un désastre pour le NPD, mais aussi une catastrophe pour l'ensemble du mouvement syndical. Il y a (…)

Moscou réprime de plus en plus cette communauté minoritaire, forçant certains à fuir. Dans la vingtaine, Mikhail* (ce n'est pas son vrai nom), un homme gay de la ville d'Oufa en Russie, faisait ce qu'il aimait : des spectacles de drag. « Je partais en tournée, à des compétitions ; je rencontrais de nouveaux artistes et je prévoyais que le drag serait le grand-père de ma vie », a-t-il confié à Al Jazeera. À ce moment-là, Mikhail a déclaré qu'il vivait sa vie ouvertement et n'avait pas (…)

Moscow is increasingly cracking down on the minority community, forcing some to flee. In his early 20s, Mikhail* (not his real name), a gay man from the city of Ufa in Russia, was doing what he loved: drag performances. “I was going on tour, to competitions; I met new artists and planned that drag would be the grandfather to my life,” he told Al Jazeera. At this point, Mikhail said, he lived his life openly and had not experienced much overt hostility from the day-to-day public. But in (…)

I would like to start off by inviting everyone to reflect on the term “Food Security”. What should this mean to the planning departments in government agencies? How should national planners evaluate the status of our “security” with respect to food supply in our country? Is it by listing the self-sufficiency levels (SSLs) of the common food items consumed by our population? And then somehow summating them to give an aggregate over-all SSL? Should we give weightage to any of the food items? (…)

The British centre- left newspaper The Guardian is not quite spelling it out. Michael Rosen in 2022 As we amble along in our [North West] corner of Europe and our wing of the crumbling 'western alliance', it's not always clear how the economic system that has grown up over the last 200 years or so, is one that inevitably means competition, conflict and often war. For example, it's hard to show or prove that Britain invading Iraq was something to do with capitalism or imperialism when (…)

The regional conference “Without Borders: LGBTI Rights and Democracy in the Western Balkans” was held in Skopje from 28th February to 2nd March. This traditional annual gathering brought together representatives of progressive political parties from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, as well as representatives from academia, civil sector, MPs and journalists. The conference served as a platform for discussing the previous year and planning activities for 2025. (…)

What drives Russia's persistent imperial ambitions? This fascinating analysis traces Russia's centuries-long pattern of territorial expansion and colonial domination, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow through the Soviet era to today's actions in Ukraine. Drawing on insights from Russian philosophers, historians, and social scientists, Zbigniew Kowalewski reveals how imperialism became deeply embedded in Russian state policy and national identity. He traces how Russia's distinct form (…)

Sauver le pays, pas les oligarques. Un appel à des changements qui empêcheront la défaite de l'Ukraine L'Anticapitaliste publie la déclaration du groupe de la gauche ukrainienne Sotsialniy Rukh (Mouvement social) du 3 mars 2025. Les politiques prédatrices du président américain nouvellement élu rendent impossible une paix durable pour les UkrainienNEs. Le refus de l'Ukraine de signer un accord minier élaboré en fonction des intérêts des capitaux américains a démontré la volonté de l'État (…)