Tran To Nga, an 84-year-old Vietnamese-French activist exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, appeared before France's highest court for civil and criminal matters on 16 June 2026, confronting fourteen agrochemical multinationals --- including Bayer-Monsanto and Dow Chemical --- that supplied the defoliant to the US military. Two lower courts had previously dismissed her case on grounds of jurisdictional immunity, holding that the companies acted under US government orders and could (…)

Face à des canicules toujours plus précoces, la paléoclimatologue critique un « déni de responsabilité » de la part des politiques et s'inquiète d'une « trumpisation » en France, entre coupes budgétaires et licenciement de scientifiques. Les prochains jours s'annoncent suffocants. Le 17 juin, 24 départements ont été placés en vigilance jaune canicule par Météo-France, à l'approche de ce qui se dessine comme la toute première vague de chaleur de l'année 2026. Et sa précocité, au même titre (…)

This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed. Against the linear temporality of social-democratic evolutionism, Bensaïd's Lenin is a (…)