The mass strike actions planned for Friday in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump's racist terror campaign. This potential show of class power could be an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.
Minneapolis has become the frontline in the emerging soft civil war between the U.S. government and large sections of its population. The city is now building toward a mass strike this Friday. While the exact scope of the (…)

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, (…)

Malgré un cessez-le-feu entre le gouvernement d'al-Sharaa et les FDS, le président ne fournit pas suffisamment de garanties quant à la protection des Kurdes syriens, affirme Joseph Daher.
Le président syrien Ahmed al-Charaa a signé un accord de cessez-le-feu avec les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) dirigées par les Kurdes le 18 janvier 2026. © GETTY
Malgré l'accord conclu mardi entre le gouvernement d'Ahmed al-Sharaa et les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS) kurdes sur un nouveau (…)

Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa's government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected, argues Joseph Daher.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa sighned a ceasefire agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January 18, 2026. [GETTY]
Despite Ahmed al-Sharaa's government and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), agreeing on another ceasefire on Tuesday, infighting and tensions in the country continue.
The (…)

Every year in mid-November, the largest far-right demonstration in the Netherlands takes place. Last November it happened again, once more in The Hague. Around ten thousand people from the orbit of the SGP and ChristenUnie, as well as from Catholic circles, once again participated in the “March for Life”, organised by Schreeuw om Leven, a lobbying and action group against abortion. Every year, for example in 2022, 2023 and 2024, pro-choice activists have mobilised against this anti-abortion (…)

Le monde d'hier au bord du gouffre : Comment construire une vision solidaire qui ne se range pas du côté d'un camp impérialiste, mais mise sur la libération par en bas ? Un entretien avec l'autrice britannico-syrienne Leila al-Shami et le socialiste ukrainien Oleksandr Kyselov.
WOZ : Leila al-Shami, Oleksandr Kyselov, en politique internationale, il semble que seule la loi du plus fort prévale désormais. Le Forum économique mondial (WEF), qui se tient cette semaine à Davos, en est (…)

I posted this comment yesterday on social media, upon leaving a screening of the film by Olivier Assayas, adapted from the eponymous novel by Giuliano da Empoli. Allow me to explain.
Let me be clear: I have neither the competence nor the legitimacy to judge the film's cinematic quality. Whether it is a good film or not, a successful adaptation or not—that is not my concern. However, watching it through my eyes as a researcher working on post-Soviet societies and on Russia's war against (…)

Pour mes grands-parents, il a fallu trois ans, dix mois, deux semaines et trois jours d'horreur et de sacrifice depuis le moment où les premières bombes sont tombées sur les villes biélorusses et ukrainiennes jusqu'à la capitulation de l'agresseur. Aujourd'hui, la guerre que la Russie mène dans notre pays est sur le point d'entrer dans sa cinquième année sans victoire ni défaite en vue. Près de 20 pour cent du territoire ukrainien est déjà occupé, mais moins d'un pour cent a été conquis au (…)

For my grandparents, it took three years, ten months, two weeks, and three days of horror and sacrifice from the moment the first bombs fell on Belarusian and Ukrainian cities till the aggressor capitulated. Today, the war that Russia is waging in our country is about to enter its fifth year with neither victory nor defeat in sight. Nearly 20 percent of Ukraine's territory is already occupied, but less than one percent of that was gained in the last year.
To the relief of many peace (…)

Le Premier ministre Takaichi a annoncé la dissolution de la Chambre des représentants et la tenue d'élections législatives lors d'une conférence de presse le 19 janvier. Les élections législatives auront lieu le dimanche 8 février. Ce bref article examine la situation politique actuelle, en mettant l'accent sur la signification de ces élections anticipées et les raisons qui ont poussé le Parti constitutionnel démocratique (CDP) et le Parti Komeito (Komeito) à former un nouveau parti, la (…)

Vient d'arriver dans les salles de projection un film documentaire assez exceptionnel : « L'Évangile de la révolution » de François-Xavier Drouet, dédié aux chrétiens latino-américains engagés dans des luttes d'émancipation.
Comme le reconnait le cinéaste, « l'Église a légitimé le génocide indien, l'esclavage, la colonisation, les structures d'un ordre social inique encore visible aujourd'hui. » J'ajouterais que beaucoup de ses représentants sont encore des défenseurs farouches de cet (…)

Nous sommes tous des passagers dans un train, conduit par une locomotive suicidaire appelée « civilisation capitaliste industrielle moderne », qui roule de plus en plus vite vers un abîme : la catastrophe écologique. Tribune surréaliste internationale, à partit d'un texte de M. Löwy.
« La nature dévore le progrès et le dépasse »
Surréalisme et nature
Nous, surréalistes, n'attendons rien du Sommet des Nations unies sur le changement climatique (COP 30, novembre 2025) à Belém, dans la (…)

On 26 February 2020, Dr Jose Eliseo Rocamora launched Impossible Is Not So Easy. It was not exactly a book, according to Joel himself, because it was “just” a published collection of his articles. Apparently, he took to heart the opinion of his friend and mentor, Benedict Anderson, who said that a compendium of one's articles cannot be considered a real book. Ben Anderson famously wrote the definitive book on the evolution of nation-states, Imagined Communities. Much later, Ben – defying (…)

The world of yesterday at the abyss: How can a solidary vision be built that does not side with one imperialist camp or another, but rather relies on liberation from below? A conversation with British-Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov.
WOZ: Leila al-Shami, Oleksandr Kyselov, in international politics it seems that only might makes right anymore. The World Economic Forum (WEF), taking place this week in Davos, also stands for this. Are we witnessing a (…)

I needed to explain myself to the judge.
Naga City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge (ret.) Soliman Santos—or simply Sol to his colleagues and comrades—had been judiciously following up on the review of his book that I had promised for quite a long while. I've been reading it “in small increments,” I said.
His reply, likely his way of showing patience with my glacial pace, was that “later generations of activists” who read Tigaon 1969: Untold Stories of the CPP-NPA, KM, and SDK may find (…)

Le 9 janvier dernier, Eleni Varikas s'est éteinte. Dans le Club de Mediapart, deux textes (ici et là) ont été publiés en l'honneur de cette penseuse du genre et féministe internationaliste. Ils racontent l'héritage d'une vie de résistance et d'indocilité, mais aussi une pensée féministe indissociable de tous les autres violenté·es.
Fille de l'un des fondateurs de l'opposition de gauche antistalinienne en Grèce et d'une exilée grecque de l'Asie mineure, Eleni Varikas s'est politisée dans le (…)

Prime Minister Takaichi announced the dissolution of The House of Representatives and the general election at a press conference on January 19^th. The general election is to be held on Sunday, February 8^th. This brief essay will examine the current political situation, focusing on what the snap election means and why a new party, the Centrist Reform Coalition, was formed by the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and the Komeito Party (Komeito).
Why Prime Minister Takaichi Called a Snap (…)

In Christoph Dehn's profoundly disturbing novel, Jan, a retired official of a German development agency operating in the Philippines, returns to look for an ex-lover, Diwa, an ex-cadre of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) who wrote to him from out of nowhere. Jan wants to reconnect and ask Diwa about her disappearance. Deep down, he hopes to rekindle their affection for one another and, as he tells his daughter, “to finish an old story.”
It turns out to be neither a simple nor (…)

Conseil de la paix, Iran, Venezuela, Groenland : les États-Unis ne rencontrent actuellement presque aucun obstacle devant leur offensive frontale contre le droit international, les droits de l'homme et les règles établies en matière de souveraineté des États. Et Trump ne fait que commencer.
Le président américain Donald Trump arrive pour une conférence de presse à la Maison Blanche, mardi, un an après le début de son deuxième mandat. Crédit : Nathan Howard/Reuters
Donald Trump est un (…)

Board of Peace, Iran, Venezuela, Greenland: The United States currently faces almost no obstacles to its frontal assault on international law, human rights, and the old norms of state sovereignty. And Trump is just getting started
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a press briefing at the White House, on the one-year mark into his second term in office, Tuesday. Credit: Nathan Howard/Reuters
Donald Trump is a destroyer. As he marks one year into his second term on Tuesday, the U.S. (…)

On Friday a majority of European Union states voted to accept the Mercosur free trade deal despite opposition from France. Yet the climatic and environmental impacts of this agreement with the South American nations involved are profound: an increase in CO2 emissions, deforestation, higher sales of pesticides and chemical fertilisers, and more animal exploitation. All this represents a series of setbacks for the planet's ecology, writes Mediapart's environment editor.
French farmers have (…)