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 (…)