- Analysis: Militarism in Europe
- The Memory of 1945
- Panama Strike in Second Month
- The Women Who Brought Down a President
- News from Kerala
- Tracking the Canadian Left
- Dialogue on Neofascism
- Malaysian Socialists’ Letter to ASEAN
- Greek Parties’ Joint Call to Save Palestinians
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1938-2025
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Analysis: Militarism in Europe
Cornelia Hildebrandt / transform! Europe (Vienna)
The White Paper adopted on 12 March 2025 by the European Parliament essentially involves the development of an EU defence industry for any necessary warfare, to secure resources, to generate society’s combat readiness and resilience, and a strategic plan to develop mobility for the moment ‘of the most extreme military eventualities’, that is, war.
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The Memory of 1945
Mischa Gabowitsch / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
The future of remembrance of World War II in the post-Soviet world remains uncertain. Russia’s attempts to lay claim to the only correct way to honour the memory of the war will have little success because corresponding memorials and commemorative rituals also play an important — locally distinct — social role in Ukraine and several other successor states to the Soviet Union.
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Panama Strike in Second Month
Pablo Meriguet / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
For several weeks now, across Panama, unionized workers, students, Indigenous communities, teachers, health professionals, agricultural workers, and others have been on strike against the neoliberal policies of the right-wing government of José Raúl Mulino. The workers have remained on the streets, braving violent police repression.
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The Women Who Brought Down a President
Yvette Tan and Suhnwook Lee / BBC (London)
On December 3, 2024, South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law. Within hours, thousands had spurred into protest, especially young women. They turned up not just because Yoon's decision had alarmed and angered them, but to protest against a president who insisted South Korea was free of sexism — despite the deep discrimination that said otherwise.
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Tracking the Canadian Left
Matt McManus / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
The NDP got shellacked, reduced down to seven seats, with Jagmeet Singh losing in his own riding (he has since resigned from his post as leader). This significant setback for Canada’s social democratic party can’t only be blamed on Trump and the agglomeration of votes to the Liberals and Conservatives. Indeed, it should also be pinned on the party’s leadership.
• Women Health Workers Organize Shradha / Global Voices (The Hague)
• Eradicating Extreme Poverty Atul Chandra / Peoples Dispatch
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Dialogue on Neofascism
Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar / Posle (Berlin)
We have seen the emergence of a powerful global neofascist axis, which goes from Trump to Netanyahu in Israel, Milei in Argentina, Orban in Hungary, Meloni to a point (and she has the very clearly neofascist Salvini in her government), Modi in India, Erdogan in Turkey, etc. How long it will go on is difficult to predict.
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Malaysian Socialists’ Letter to ASEAN
Jeyakumar Devaraj / Think Left (Kuala Lumpur)
For the past 5 decades, countries in ASEAN have followed the advice of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO to rely on foreign investment (FDI) to drive the construction of manufacturing industries and rely on the markets of rich countries in Europe and North America for goods created by factories in ASEAN. This development model cannot continue.
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Greek Parties’ Joint Call to Save Palestinians
Tasos Kokkinidis / Greek Reporter (Los Angeles)
The leaders of Greece’s four left-wing opposition parties signed a joint statement, concerning the tragic plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Following an initiative launched by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the statement was co-signed by leaders of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, New Left, and Plefsi Eleftherias.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1938-2025
• Life Hillel Italie / Associated Press (New York)
• Quotations Adrian Horton / The Guardian (London)
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