By Walden Bello. March 15, 2022 Renowned Filipino scholar-activist Walden Bello is running for vice president this year on a left-wing ticket. Writing for Jacobin, Bello describes the transformative impact an…
Environmental activists in Russia are under increasing pressure
By Estelle Levresse. 9 March 2022 Vyacheslav Egorov, aged 44, was sentenced on 14 October 2021 in the first instance by the Kolomna municipal court to 15 months in prison. This…
From Taiwan to Ukraine
Wen Liu and Brian Hioe. May 24, 2022 GEOPOLITICAL REALIGNMENT AND ANTICOLONIAL SOLIDARITY IN A TIME OF WAR WAR: A FAMILIAR COLONIAL NARRATIVE While Ukraine and the geopolitics of Eastern…
Sri Lanka: The art and literature of protest and liberation
By Pamodi Waravita. May 23, 2022 Poets, academics, novelists, performance artists, painters, and activists expound on SL’s burgeoning art and literary scene anchored in expressing dissent Resistance literature has taken…
Millions of Ukrainians are arriving to a battle over abortion rights in Poland
Ari Shapiro, Oksana Litvinenko, Justyna Wydrzynska, Krystyna Kacpura, Zuzanna Dziuban. May 20, 2022 Ukraine has very liberal abortion laws. In Poland, it is almost entirely illegal. Millions of Ukrainians discovered…
Why The Son Of A Hated Dictator Won The Philippine Elections
By Walden Bello | May 18, 2022 The failures of liberalism made illiberalism popular. But the inevitable crises of the Marcos-Duterte regime offer opportunities for progressive organizing. As a progressive activist, I…
Ukrainian leftists fight the Russian invasion
By Pete Brown. May 13, 2022 Some leftist groups in Western Europe and the U.S. overlook the basic facts on the ground: the capitalist, imperialist power of Russia has invaded…
Olivier Besancenot: “A form of political paralysis is affecting the French left over the war in Ukraine”
Olivier Besancenot. Laurent Geslin. Mathilde Goanec. May 11, 2022 How should one approach the conflict as an anti-capitalist activist? Back from Ukraine, Olivier Besancenot believes that the progressive forces of the…
FAS (#voices_ukkrain_ok)–The problem of feminist international politics. A view from Ukraine
Tamara Zlobina. May 9, 2022 What do Ukrainian women themselves think about helping them? What kind of support do they want to see in the first place? And what do…
Philippines: Social Democracy or “Dutertismo”?
Josua Mata, Liliane Danso-Dahmen. May 10, 2022 Josua Mata on the Philippine workers’ movement before and after President Duterte Although the official vote count only began today, the results of the…