ESSF has published substantial coverage of the Cyclone Senyar disaster, including Pierre Rousset's Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power, Mark Johnson's compilation of Indonesian ecosocialist movement analysis in Capital Disaster: How Indonesian Movements Are Framing Cyclone Senyar, and Amnesty International Indonesia's White flag flown in Aceh, national and international aid must be allowed in (Usman Hamid). This update presents ten recent articles that document how (…)

It is terrible that the global geopolitical left does not understand that what is important is to stand with those who live the drama of the working class, not to calculate how many governments identify as right-wing and how many as progressive; the politics of the common is not a game of monopoly. In fact, whilst whoever leads the bureaucratic and employer-aligned Central Bolivariana Socialista de los Trabajadores (CBST, Bolivarian Socialist Workers' Central) has never led a strike in (…)

Over the past several weeks, Trump's attack on democratic rights in the US and violations of international law and the sovereignty of other countries have increased in scale and violence. On January 3, 2026, a massive aerial and naval force kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores, killing a hundred Venezuelans and Cubans in the raid, which was followed by the theft of 500 million barrels of Venezuelan oil by US naval forces. With supreme imperial arrogance, (…)