A Year After the Uprising in Bangladesh, Activists Hold on to Hope Amid Backlash
Hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh rose up against exploitation in 2024. Anti-fascists everywhere can learn from them.
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Hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh rose up against exploitation in 2024. Anti-fascists everywhere can learn from them.
Since late August 2025, Indonesia has been gripped by a wave of spontaneous and violent protests that shook the foundations of the new Prabowo-Gibran administration. Our in-depth analysis of this volatile period reveals the complex factors behind the public’s fury and outlines a potential path forward for the people’s movement.
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‘What is the 4T in Mexico? MORENA’s Project Under Debate’: A summary of the Tricontinental Institute’s Dossier on the historical role of the project carried out by former President López Obrador and continued by current President Sheinbaum. Also: ‘How Mexico Lifted 13.4m Out of Poverty in 6 Years’.
Enduring a financial siege by France and terror attacks by its alleged proxies, the popular military government that replaced the puppet regime in Niger enters the third year of its rule, with concrete progress to show in agriculture, education and power-generation.
A review of Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy by Samir Amin. Eurocentrism is not a flaw—it’s the software of global capitalism. Samir Amin detonates its ideological core, exposing how it serves empire, whitewashes history and infects even the Marxist tradition.
‘Gauri Lankesh: Writer, Fighter, Speaker, Friend’: An excerpt from “I Am on the Hit List: Murder and Myth-Making in South India”. Also a poem by Shivasundar in Gauri Lankesh’s memory on the eighth anniversary of her assassination.
Historian Nayanjot Lahiri and the musician discuss their collaboration to reimagine Ashoka’s words through a contemporary prism.
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