La lutte contre l'oligarchie, l'extrême droite et les gouvernements du centre qui leur ont ouvert les portes a dominé les discours lors du premier meeting du Bloc, en présence d'eurodéputées de Podemos, de la France Insoumise et de l'Alliance de Gauche finlandaise. Catarina Martins (Bloco PT), Manon Aubry (France Insoumise) Mariana Mortágua (Bloco PT ), Li Andersson (Alliance de Gauche FI) et Irene Montero (Podemos ES Dans une salle comble à l'Incrível Almadense, le meeting d'ouverture (…)

What preceded the establishment of trade unions in the Czech lands? An interview with historian Jakub Raška about the beginnings of the labor and trade union movement. First Edition of the Communist 'Red Pravda", 1920 The establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 meant, among other things, a break with the previous repressive authoritarian policy of the Habsburg monarchy and greater democratization of society. This also meant a strengthening of the role of trade unions, greater rights (…)

To fund social services, hift the tax burden from ordinary Malaysians to the big corporations. One other reason for voting a PSM candidate is because the PSM consistently asks the relevant questions. There are many NGOs and other civil groups proposing schemes and programs designed to enhance the welfare of ordinary citizens. In the past two years, the PSM itself has put forward recommendations to – implement an old age pension scheme. Our proposal was RM 500 per month for all those (…)

Genocide talk has spread into all TV studios as legitimate talk. From here on, one should say: thou shalt murder. All that remains is to debate who should be murdered and who should be spared MK Moshe Saada, earlier this year. Proclaimed on Channel 14 TV that he was “interested” in starving an entire nation. “Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this is our obligation.”Credit: Sraya Diamant It was only to be expected: The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and (…)

A Druze cleric, left, who crossed from Syria to Israel earlier in the day is welcomed by an Israeli soldier at the Nabi Shuaib shrine compound, in northern Israel on Friday.Credit: Leo Correa/AP Sometimes it's hard to believe what one is reading: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar is calling on the international community to “fulfill its role in protecting minorities in Syria, specifically the Druze community, from the regime and its terrorist gangs, and to not turn a blind eye to the grave (…)

The right wants more, more, more. So do many Israelis who don't consider themselves right-wingers. All the dead, disabled, displaced and starving Gazans up to now are not enough. They want more. A tent 'city' with displaced Palestinians in Rafah, last week.Credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/רויטרס Outside the home of the head of the right-wing government on Jerusalem's Gaza (in Hebrew, Azza) Street, a right-wing rally will take place Thursday evening: “We demand victory! Rafah now.” A (…)

Facing both October 7 and Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, bereaved families sought to make space for shared grief — and insist on a different path forward. This year marks the 20th Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony, held annually on the eve of Israel's Memorial Day. Organized by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle – Families Forum, the ceremony brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones to mourn together — and to call for an end (…)

The glitch State-sponsored celebrations in today's Russia are rarely apolitical, and last month's 270th anniversary of the country's leading educational institution, Moscow State University (MSU), was no exception. The pompous gala concert devoted to the MSU's anniversary featured lengthy video projections intertwining Russia's ideologised and mythologised history with that of the university. In effect, it celebrated the Kremlin's vision of Russian greatness with an emphasis on popular (…)

Les résultats électoraux canadiens signalent un tournant droitier non banal de l'échiquier politique canadien. Le parti Libéral minoritaire du banquier Mark Carney vire à droite par rapport à l'ex-gouvernement Libéral Trudeau allié implicitement avec le NPD de centre-gauche. Le parti Conservateur à tendance trumpiste augmente son score de près de huit points de pourcentage par rapport à l'élection de 2021 soit à 41% par rapport au 44% des Libéraux. Il a fallu une remontée Libéral de plus de (…)

ALMOST A YEAR and a half after the Ohio citizens' victory passing an amendment to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution, and five months after the presidential election, the abortion issue is no longer front and center for most Ohioans. Anti-choice forces, however, have not stopped looking for ways to strip away these rights. And unfortunately, some of our neighbors have not fared as well. Women in Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia now live under draconian laws (…)

ON MARCH 14, a much-decorated former Capitol police officer was on his way to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to join a protest against down-sizing of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the Trump Administration. Among the thousands gathered there were more than a few American flag wavers, decked out in camo and other forms of apparel favored by military veterans. The mere sight of them gave Harry Dunn a “PTSD moment.” As he explained later, “the last time I saw a crowd like (…)

La sphère médiatique semble déconcertée : lors de son premier mandat, Trump avait baissé les droits de douane, désormais, il les relève ; il joue la Russie, puis l'Ukraine. La conclusion ? Trump serait « imprévisible ». Rien n'est plus faux : Donald Trump a derrière lui une équipe, un agenda, un plan cherchant à enrayer le déclin des valeurs « américaines ». Ce plan peut être qualifié de « libertarien », un courant qui valorise le talent individuel, la famille, le patrimoine et la religion. (…)

La Réunion connaît sa deuxième épidémie de chikungunya, virus transmis par le moustique-tigre, qui étend son territoire avec la hausse des températures, y compris en métropole. La dengue, Zika ou la fièvre jaune appartiennent à la même famille de maladies, en expansion. L'été austral touche à sa fin à La Réunion. L'entrée dans l'hiver devrait faire baisser petit à petit le nombre de moustiques-tigres (Aedes albopictus), qui propagent le chikungunya depuis le début de l'année. Mais (…)

Many transgender Indonesians are officially homeless, having separated from their family and moved to urban areas. In recent years support groups have focused on helping individuals apply for ID cards, so that they can at least access basic public services. In almost all cases these documents are issued with the name and gender assigned at birth. [AN] “In the past, when a transgender friend passed away who had no relatives or identification, they couldn't access social services. At Suara (…)

On May 4th, 1896, workers in Chicago held a protest at Haymarket Square demanding an eight hour workday. However, faced with brutal police attacks, these workers sacrificed their lives to make the eight hour workday a reality. In Sri Lanka and around the world, all workers enjoy the eight hour workday today as a result of the struggles and sacrifices made by those pioneers. Yet today, we are completing a vicious circle of time, as the Sri Lankan government and employers, under the guise of a (…)

Analyser les différentes offensives et attaques de la guerre éclair sans précédent menée par Trump demanderait beaucoup de recherches. Nous laisserons ici à d'autres le soin d'examiner les aspects importants de la réorganisation de l'empire américain. Je limiterai mon analyse à quelques points centraux qui indiquent les limites et l'étendue des bulldozers de Trump ainsi que les sources de l'opposition. Photo : Sarah Jane Rhee Le point d'achoppement ultime des plans de Trump et des (…)

En matière d'orientation des recherches sur la protection de la nature, la prétendue objectivité scientifique laisse la place à toutes sortes de biais et de conformismes. Des préférences subjectives qui affaiblissent les efforts de conservation. Mettre de la rigueur scientifique, de la méthode et des faits au service de la défense de la biodiversité et de la protection du vivant – voilà en résumé le louable objectif de la science de la conservation (conservation science en anglais), (…)

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 (…)