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• Climate (Ecology)

  Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

  20 March, by HARVEY Fiona

  IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
  Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
  The (...)

• Economy, social (USA)

  American Bank Failures Once Again Threaten Everyone

  20 March, by LA BOTZ Dan

  The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California on March 10 set off a chain reaction as depositors withdrew funds causing it and other small banks to fail or face serious problems, among them Signature Bank in New York, and First Republic Bank in San Francisco. Stock markets worldwide (...)

• China and Russia

  Strength of ‘limitless’ China-Russia ties to be tested at summit

  14 septembre 2022, par DAVIDSON Helen

  Ukraine setback weakens Russian position as leaders prepare to jostle for regional influence in Uzbekistan
  Major setbacks for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine will further test the “limitless partnership” between China and Russia when their leaders meet this week for the first time since the invasion, (...)

• China and Russia

  Vladimir Putin greets Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow this week

  21 March, by DAVIDSON Helen

  ‘He is my best friend’: 10 years of strengthening ties between Putin and Xi The Russian and Chinese leaders have met more than 40 times in recent years, fortifying personal and formal relations
  A visit by China’s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow this week has shone a light on his strengthening (...)

• Europe, Great Britain

  “Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

  24 February, by MOVCHAN Sergey, TUSHKIN Alexander

  A year ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine on the pretext of “denazification”. A year after the outbreak of war, IRGAC member Alexander Tushkin from Russia spoke to Sergey Movchan, left-wing activist and participant in the Marker project which tracks far-right (...)

• Indonesia & West Papua

  Capital’s Repressive Apparatus: Privatised Violence Against Labour in Indonesia

  27 February, by CHOIR Miftachul

  In Indonesia, predatory alliances of politicians and businesses were established during the 32-year New Order era under Soeharto and survived in post-reform Indonesia.
  Richard Robison’s Rise of Capital (1986) and Vedi Hadiz & Richard Robison’s Reorganizing Power (2004) introduced the idea (...)

• On the Left (Europe)

  Six Ways Ukraine is Winning: How the European Left Marginalised a Transatlantic Red-Brown Coalition

  27 February, by MASON Paul

  Author and journalist Paul Mason looks at how the European left has rallied around the Ukrainian people while a hardcore of ’neo-Bolsheviks’ are aligning with the hard right
  On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, the left swung into action: it condemned the aggression, began agitating for arms to (...)

• China and Russia

  Russia wants military aid from China – here’s why this deal could help China, too

  8 March, by ALEN Michael A.

  China and Russia’s relationship is complex. But China’s decision to support Russia’s war on Ukraine could ultimately come down to China’s own political interests.
  China is considering sending weapons, ammunition and drones to Russia, according to information the Biden administration declassified (...)

• Women (Ukraine)

  Ukraine : "Self-organisation will not disappear without leaving traces”

  3 March, by Bilkis, LE TREHONDAT Patrick

  The members of the feminist group Bilkis in Lviv like to cycle and when the military situation and the weather allow it, they organise rides.
  Founded 3 years ago in Kharkiv, Bilkis found refuge in Lviv due to the war. Since 24 February, Bilkis has changed its range of activities to meet the (...)

• Ukraine

  “Now Ukraine Needs Allies, Not Talk of Neutrality”

  24 February, by POPOVYCH Zakhar, Posle

  On the consequences of the Russian invasion, the mistakes of the Western left, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine. An interview with Zakhar Popovich, member of the leftist organization Sotsyalnyi Rukh
  A year ago, Russia launched an aggressive full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is an event (...)

• Russia

  ‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

  25 February, by LIUTOVA Margarita, YUDIN Grigory

  Sociologist Grigory Yudin was one of just a few Russian experts who believed in February 2022 that a military clash between Russia and Ukraine was inevitable. In an article published just two days before the invasion, Yudin predicted that a major war loomed in the near future, that Russians (...)

• Russia & Eastern Europe

  Why Socialist Appeal can’t “learn to think”

  20 February, by SEN Mohan

  In the 1938 article “Learn to think”, Leon Trotsky argued that if fascist Italy sent weapons to aid – for its own malign reasons – nationalist rebels against France in Algeria, socialists in Italy should not oppose and even help that. Opposing such military aid would, he argued, mean betraying the (...)

• Ahlem Belhadj

  Shock and sadness - The death of our comrade Ahlem Belhadj

  12 March, by Fourth International

  The Bureau of the Fourth International wishes to express its shock and sadness at the death of our dear comrade Ahlem Belhadj.
  Ahlem’s warmth, kindness and militant qualities were appreciated by all. As soon as the news was known we received messages from France, Brazil, Mexico, the West (...)

• Ahlem Belhadj

  From France to Tunisia: Message for the funeral of our comrade Ahlem Belhadj

  12 March, by NPA

  The New Anti-Capitalist Party sends its condolences to Myriam, Youssef and Jallal, to all the comrades of Ahlem, activists in the feminist and trade union movement.
  Ahlem is leaving at a time when the social movement is particularly targeted, when women’s rights and the democratic rights she (...)

• Ahlem Belhadj

  Tunisia - Dr. Ahlem Belhadj leaves us: the cause of women and democratic forces in mourning

  11 March, by Leaders

  A leading figure in trade unionism, in the fight against oppression, courageous, committed, she was since her age in the front line on all fronts. With a strong voice and determination, she had long carried the cause of democracy and women on her shoulders and in her heart. Dr Ahlem Belhadj, 57 (...)

• Ahlem Belhadj

  Ahlem Belhadj (1964-2023) - Tributes and memories

  14 March, by ACHCAR Gilbert, BARON Alain, ROUSSET Pierre, SAINT JEAN Henri, TRAT Josette

  Ahlem Belhadj died, too young, in Tunis on March 11, 2013. Activist, child psychiatrist by training, she was best known for being the president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD). We publish below a first set of tributes that we have received.
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• Marxism & co.

  G. M. Tamás Wasn’t “Hungary’s Last Marxist”

  26 February, by ZSURZSÁN Anita

  Upon G. M. Tamás’s death last month, even many laudatory obituaries claimed that he marked the endpoint of Hungary’s Marxist traditions. But Marxism isn’t dead in Hungary.
  Gáspár Miklós Tamás was, without a doubt, one of the most diverse and creative thinkers in the former Eastern bloc. A (...)

• Ukraine

  ‘Ukraine is fighting occupiers and tormenters’

  27 February, by Good Night Imperial Pride

  Here is an interview with members of another unit that Good Night Imperial Pride has supported.
  We talked to russian anarchists who fight in Armed Forces of Ukraine about the front, life before a full-scale invasion and what it’s like to be a russian in the Ukrainian army. We asked both J and (...)

• Political situation and debates (France)

  Pensions crisis (France): The beginning of the end for Macron’s presidency?

  16 March, by RAMDANI Ilyes

  The French government on Thursday announced it will use an article of the constitution that allows it to adopt as legislation its proposed and hotly contested reform of the pensions system without a vote in Parliament. In this op-ed analysis of the move, Mediapart political correspondent Ilyes (...)

• Political situation and debates (France)

  Pension reform in France: the grandmother of all battles

  8 March, by PLENEL Edwy

  The battle against the French government’s pension reform is not simply just another protest movement. Three crucial issues are at stake here: social, democratic and civilisational, as shown by the exceptional unity among trade unions opposed to the changes, argues Mediapart’s publishing editor (...)