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• History (modern) (Europe)

  How the Nazis Exploited the Reichstag Fire to Launch a Reign of Terror

  27 February, by DE JONG Alex

  Ninety years ago today, a fire engulfed the Reichstag in Berlin. The arsonist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was hoping to inspire resistance to fascism, but the Nazis used the fire as a pretext to impose a regime of violent terror against the German left.
  Ninety years ago today, on February 27, (...)

• Russia & Eastern Europe

  Is Russia Irredeemable?

  1 March, by HIMKA John-Paul

  In a previous contribution to the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, I outlined how three historical moments of democratic transition in Russia were aborted and how the kind of centralized, repressive, and aggressive government represented by tsarism, Stalin, and now Putin has reasserted itself. I (...)

• Labor, urban poor (Indonesia)

  Indonesia: Protesters rally at parliament calling for Jobs Law decree to be revoked

  28 February, by SIMANJUNTAK Surya Dua Artha

  Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.
  Jakarta -– A coalition of civil society activists calling themselves the Indonesian People’s Protest demonstrated in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in (...)

• Economy (Pakistan)

  Deal-or-default: Is it the endgame for Pakistan?

  5 February, by KHALIQ Abdul

  The IMF mission is currently in Pakistan on a 10-day visit to discuss the stalled ninth review of the country’s current funding programme. The loan talks were restarted after the government finally yielded to IMF demands.Pakistan secured a $6 billion IMF bailout in 2019, which was topped up with (...)

• Women (Pakistan)

  Pakistan: The other half

  8 March, by ZAKARIA Rafia

  TODAY is International Women’s Day. On this single day out of 365 days, women review the progress that they have been able to make over the past year. In most countries, it is understood that the single day allotted to women is not a measure of their importance in society but rather a day of (...)

• LGBT+ (India)

  India: IMSD deplores the demonisation of sexual minorities by Kerala’s rightwing Muslims

  17 March, by IMSD

  Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the concerted effort by the Muslim rightwing in Kerala — including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and some Muslim-run websites — to ridicule, vilify, denigrate and demonise Muslims who are (...)

• Financial and economic crisis (World)

  Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis

  20 March, by ROBERTS Michael, SMITH Ashley

  The banking industry has been beset by a series of failures, government bailouts, and takeovers. The crisis in these banks has sent stock markets around the world into gyrations. What caused all of this? Is this a passing crisis? What impact will it have on the real economy? Spectre’s Ashley (...)

• Financial and economic crisis (World)

  Bank busts and regulation

  21 March, by ROBERTS Michael

  Stock markets are jumping back up today. It seems that financial investors think the monetary authorities and banking supervisors have got the banking crisis under control. That could be wishful thinking.
  The banking crisis of 2023 is not over yet. The Californian ‘tech’ bank Silicon Valley (...)

• Ukraine

  Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity

  27 February, by GREENE Nóirín, HERASYM Halyna, KOSTICK Conor, Ó BRÍAIN Donnacha

  Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a book edited by Fred Leplat and Chris Ford, published by Resistance Books and Ukraine Solidarity campaign. It contains essays by Mick Antoniw, Welsh Labour MP; John-Paul Himka, history professor; Taras Bilous, activist for Sotsialnyi Rukh / (...)

• Anti-War Resistance (Russia)

  Russia: Memo to activists before 24 February

  21 February, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

  It will soon be one year since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many activists have welcomed the start of the war in isolation cells and detention centres. It is likely that there will again be sweeps, raids and preventive detentions before the anniversary of the war.
  The (...)

• Russia & Eastern Europe

  On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism

  27 February, by LA BOTZ Dan

  The Russian war on Ukraine is the result of the imperialist ideology and the economic and geopolitical objectives of Vladimir Putin and the Russian state. Russia is, as it has long been, an imperial power seeking to eliminate Ukraine as an independent state and even to erase the Ukrainians as a (...)

• Indonesia & West Papua

  Against Racialized Labour Politics: Chinese Capital and Conflict in Indonesia

  15 March, by SHU Song

  On Jan. 14, 2023, following a three-day strike organized by the National Workers Union of Indonesia (Serikat Pekerja Nasional, or SPN), a violent clash between Indonesian and Chinese workers took place in the facilities of PT Gunbuster Nickel Industry (GNI) in Morowali, Central Sulawesi. The (...)

• On the Left (Europe)

  Building Left Solidarity with Ukraine in Northern Europe

  21 March, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine

  On 19 March, a representative of the Social Movement, Oleksandr Kiselyov, addressed the XXV Congress (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S6lK5Ig7AQ4f9hCdtBquVd4iK2vzWiTwKPMzAbwglDM/edit?usp=sharing) of one of Norway’s largest political forces, the Socialist Left Party (SV - Sosialistisk (...)

• 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 (...)