- German Election: Protesting AfD Win
- Palestine: History, Current Battle and the Israeli Election
- Russia’s Present and Future
- Generation Z in Iran
- From Latin America
- How to Respond to the Disaster in Nepal
- Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process
- Ukraine: People-to-People Solidarity
- Hyundai Strike a Breakthrough in South Korea
- The Economics of Thomas Sankara
German Election: Protesting AfD Win
Deborah Cole / The Guardian (London)
Thousands of Germans have staged protests against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) after the party’s watershed victory in a state election, warning it posed a danger in two more polls this month. Demonstrators at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate held a peaceful pro-democracy rally denouncing the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian AfD.
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Palestine: History, Current Battle and the Israeli Election
A Historical Perspective Robert Inlakesh / The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace WA)
She Took Up Arms / The Palestine Chronicle
Before the Election / The New Arab (London)
Arab Intellectuals Manifesto / Verso (London)
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Ivan Drury Zarin and Mikhail Lobanov / Against the Current (Detroit)
Altogether we see a huge number of initiatives and can understand what we can do and what infrastructure we need in order to help these initiatives grow. In doing this we help activist and researcher groups survive and develop their activities. We are creating an infrastructure for the future.
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Sharareh Akhavan / Socialist Project (Toronto)
After 47 years of strict ideological and authoritarian social control, the rulers of the Islamic Republic appeared unable to comprehend the extent to which Generation Z had become detached from (and in many respects, resistant to) the values and norms the regime had sought to instill. Reformists, republicans, left-wing activists, and other opposition groups were also astonished.
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From Latin America
Thousands Protest Kast, Pinochet in Chile / Türkiye Today (Istanbul)
Uruguayan Left Confab Daniel Cholakian / NACLA (New York)
Sheinbaum’s Middle Digit Reply to Trump Miguel Paiva / The Latin Times (Montgomery)
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How to Respond to the Disaster in Nepal
Partido Lakas ng Masa / Links (Sydney)
Development is largely organised through competing national agendas, corporate investment and individual projects. The alternative is democratic regional planning that meets social needs within ecological limits, directs public investment toward these goals, and ensures an equitable distribution of benefits and risks.
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Ezgi Akin / Al-Monitor (Washington DC)
Turkey’s peace process with Kurdish militants has entered an implementation phase, with authorities setting up working groups to verify the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and decide further legal and civil steps. The PKK, which waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984, announced in 2024 that it would disband and dissolve itself.
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Ukraine: People-to-People Solidarity
Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
The Ukrainian working class buttressing Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion and occupation needs solidarity from their counterparts in trade unions and progressive social movements elsewhere. They face Russian tanks and Western banks, but also domestic oligarchs who continue to be little taxed, investigated, or regulated under the neoliberal policies of the Zelensky government.
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Hyundai Strike a Breakthrough in South Korea
DRM News (Dubai)
[Moderator’s note: Under terms Hyundai and its union reached following the August 21 strike, base salaries rise 4.1 percent and workers receive a performance bonus equal to 400 percent of base pay, plus additional cash and bonus payments layered on top. Hyundai also committed to hiring 500 new technical workers next year, and agreed to keep negotiating over job security.]
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The Economics of Thomas Sankara
Ferdinand Ouedraogo / Tricontinental
For Sankara, economics was first and foremost a political, moral and anti-colonial project: a means through which a people could become masters of their own destiny. In this sense, he stands in the pan-African revolutionary tradition of Kwame Nkrumah’s critique of neocolonialism, Amilcar Cabral’s theory of national liberation and Julius Nyerere’s experiments in self-reliant development.
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