1. Marching Forward: Women, Resistance and Counter-power
2. French Communism: No Direction Home
3. More Than 50 Student Activists Were Arrested In Police Raids In China
4. “Ending Monarchy and the Establishment of a Democratic Multi-party System is Way Forward for Swaziland”
5. Guatemala Communities Rebel Against High Energy Costs
6. 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.