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 (…)