- Marching Forward: Women, Resistance and Counter-power
- French Communism: No Direction Home
- More Than 50 Student Activists Were Arrested In Police Raids In China
- “Ending Monarchy and the Establishment of a Democratic Multi-party System is Way Forward for Swaziland”
- Guatemala Communities Rebel Against High Energy Costs
- Philippines: Youth Groups Haven't Moved On From Marcos
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Marching Forward: Women, Resistance and Counter-power
Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, Medha Patkar and Nonhle Mbuthuma / Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)
TNI interviewed three women activists who have displayed incredible courage, determination and creativity to confront corporate power and state violence.
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French Communism: No Direction Home
Sophie Grahl / Jacobin (New York)
The far right has made breakthroughs in old Communist heartlands across Europe. A new memoir blames this on the slow and painful erosion of class politics.
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More Than 50 Student Activists Arrested In Police Raids In China
William Yang / Buzzfeed (New York)
The raids, which happened on Friday morning, are the latest episode in the Chinese government’s attempt to clamp down on a growing labor unrest in southern China.
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“Ending Monarchy and the Establishment of a Democratic Multi-party System is Way Forward for Swaziland”
V. Arun Kumar / NewsClick (New Delhi)
One of the last absolute monarchies in the world, Swaziland is headed to a primary round of polls under its Tinkhundla (administrative sub-division-based) electoral system.
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Guatemala Communities Rebel Against High Energy Costs
Jeff Abbott / NACLA (New York)
Rural communities in Guatemala are rising up against unmanageable energy bills, more than two decades after the Central American country privatized its power grid.
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Youth Groups to Marcos: We Haven't Moved On
Gaea Katreena Cabico / The Philippine Star (Manila)
They may not have been alive during the Marcos dictatorship, but millennials still contend with the consequences of his authoritarian rule.
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