Du 12 au 14 septembre, une rencontre extraordinaire s'est tenue à Breza, petite ville minière de Bosnie. Quatre-vingts personnes – mineurs, écologistes, syndicalistes – venues de toute l'ex-Yougoslavie se sont réunies pour un « Zbor », assemblée populaire traditionnelle, afin de confronter un ennemi commun : la soi-disant « transition verte » imposée par l'Union européenne et le capital étranger. Loin d'opposer défenseurs de l'environnement et travailleurs du charbon, cette rencontre a (…)

Turbulence on the left is giving rise to various new initiatives. Alex Fuentes of Internationalen spoke with Mesir Taki from the newly formed Folkets Röst (People's Voice), which is conducting a petition campaign for left-wing demands ahead of the upcoming election. Image: Representatives from People's Voice: on the left Mesir Taki, in the middle Fayyad Assali and on the right Dina Shnino What kind of organisation is People's Voice and in which towns does it exist? — People's Voice (…)

President Donald Trump is trying to reassert U.S. global dominance, leading to a greater threat of wars that could endanger what little stability remains in international relations. The United States was from its founding always making war and expanding its territory. It warred against the native American peoples, against Mexico (taking half its territory), then against Spain, taking Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. The United States had become a great power by the outbreak of (…)

Plusieurs personnalités ont fait leur entrée dans la nouvelle équipe ministérielle dévoilée dimanche 12 octobre, avec comme dénominateur commun leur fidélité au président de la République. Plusieurs ministres, dont Sébastien Lecornu, sont notamment visés par des procédures judiciaires. • Des ministres, dont le premier d'entre eux, sous enquête judiciaire Le temps où les ministres d'Emmanuel Macron devaient quitter leur fonction sitôt l'ouverture d'une procédure judiciaire est totalement (…)

La reconduction de Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon, cinq jours après sa démission, est stupéfiante parce qu'insensée. Le président de la République a définitivement renoncé à aligner ses décisions sur les aspirations populaires. Seule compte à présent la conservation du pouvoir. Le pilote s'est enfermé dans le cockpit. Est-il encore lucide ? Emmanuel Macron a franchi un pas spectaculaire, vendredi 10 octobre, dans l'interminable fuite en avant qu'est devenu son second quinquennat. Cinq jours (…)

While it is doubtful whether Hamas could regain control of the Gaza Strip, it still may be capable of blocking any alternative from taking root. Despite that, the war had to end – Israeli society is exhausted and divided Israeli forces on the border with Gaza on Sunday. Credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters At some point during the early hours of Monday morning, when the long-delayed release of the final 20 living hostages is expected to take place, the right appears determined to repeat past (…)

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 (…)