Ocalan’s Call for Peace: The End of the PKK–Turkey Conflict?
While PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s historic call raises hopes of ending 40 years of conflict with Turkey, peace is by no means guaranteed.
‘Speak, Claudia!’
Sheinbaum, a 62–year-old intellectual with a doctorate in environmental sciences, proved her mettle as mayor of Mexico City before she won the presidency in last year’s elections. And she has proved it all over again by way of her first encounters with the just-elected Trump.
The Policies of Sri Lanka’s New Government: a Historic Opportunity Lost
Éric Toussaint compares events in Sri Lanka with what took place in Greece in 2015 and in Argentina between 2019 and 2023, with the attendant risk of a hard-Right government coming to power in the future.
Al Jazeera, the TV Channel That Saves the Honor of Modern Journalism
It has been said and written many times that the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is “the first live broadcast war” in history. And that, as a result of this historic first, no one can now claim ignorance of what is happening in Palestine. Few, however, have asked themselves: thanks to whom was this war broadcast live? What follows is a tribute to all those who did so at the risk of their lives…
Serbia Student Revolt – 2 Articles
Last week, a mass protest movement in Serbia brought down the country’s government, inaugurating the biggest challenge to the more than decade-old rule of the authoritarian president, Aleksandar Vučić.
Despite the Genocide, Palestinians Continue to Prove Israel Wrong – 4 Articles
‘The Great March of Hope: Gaza’s Defiance against Erasure’; ‘The Life Expectancy of Palestinians Fell by 11.5 years in the First Three Months of the Genocide’; ‘The Western Way of Genocide’; and: ‘In the West Bank, Another “Gaza Genocide” Unfolds’.
It’s the Party, Stupid: Sri Lanka’s Political Turnaround
The new National People’s Power government, with 67% of parliamentary seats, shows every sign of intending to reduce corruption, obey the law, respect expertise, negotiate political solutions to pressing problems and generally rule in accord with the instincts of the educated, middle class professionals who provide so much of its ideological and organisational heft.
The Ayacucho Commune: A Fishing Community on the Orinoco
In this next article of this series of articles on Venezuela’s communes, fisherfolk discuss the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.
Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria
‘After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria’: Sudden regime collapse shows persistence of the Arab revolutions amid challenges from both local and outside forces of imperialism and reaction. Also: ‘The Lion Has Fallen!’
Debt and Austerity – the IMF’s Legacy of Structural Violence in the Global South
In light of the mass anti-austerity protests in Kenya and Argentina in 2024, a historical analysis of the neo-colonial relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and these two countries.