From Inside Indonesia This special issue of Inside Indonesia commemorates the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the 1965–1966 genocide, when an estimated half a
Month: September 2025
RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey has published a new article in Tribune, arguing that the disconnection between the working class and the organised left is partly down to
The denial of the genocide which took place in Indonesia after 1 October 1965 has cultural, legal, discursive and affective dimensions. This genocide was one
Escalated by police violence, a protest movement in Nepal snowballed into a spontaneous insurrection, culminating on September 9, 2025 with the toppling of the government.
At least 18 people were injured, including a journalist The Peruvian capital has experienced another weekend of mobilisations, in a second wave of protests called
Following Nepal recently, in Madagascar, young people are organising and making their voices heard: the ’Gen Z Madagascar’ collective is mobilising in the streets and
Two activists from Sudfa (a media outlet founded by Sudanese exiles in France) and Génération Lumière (a decolonial ecology association founded by young Congolese people
From identity and belonging to responsibility and organizing, Sally Abed and Jess Bricker unpack why they’re here and why they’re part of a joint Jewish-Palestinian
Oracle isn’t quite a household name on par with other American technology companies such as Microsoft, Meta or Apple. But Oracle nevertheless ranks among the
National protests kicked off Monday and have spread to the capital as indigenous federation CONAIE calls for a national strike From Pirate Wire Services As
From Paris and Rome to Jakarta, Indonesia, and New York, a curious banner has appeared in protest squares. With hollow cheeks, a broad grin and
In this episode of “Saffron Siege: The RSS at 100”, Apoorvanand Jha discusses how Hindu and Hindutva common sense kept the RSS popular even though
US president Donald Trump has said Ukraine could win back all of the territory it has lost in the ongoing war, but Russia’s president Vladimir
In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence, culminating with the burning of the
Youth in Peru take a page from Nepalese rebellion as the pirate flag from “One Piece” flies in pitched street battles against state forces From
00:01:00 Introduction00:11:00 Taiwan’s history and society00:27:58 Q&A00:48:30 International left views on Taiwan and China00:54:20 Q&A01:07:50 The left in Taiwan01:15:45 Q&A01:48:40 Conclusion01:55:13 End
This is Part 3 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
From Jaffna Monitor Kaniyan Pungundran: I see your life as a story of human resilience — or perhaps more broadly, the resilience of Sri Lankan
Solidarity with Standing Together: A Response to Calls for a Boycott, by UK FoST – 17 September 2025
UK Friends of Standing Together responds to renewed calls from some in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement to boycott and no-platform Standing Together
Three Uses of the Concept of Generic Fascism for Understanding Russia’s War Against Ukraine For already two decades and initially unnoted among the wider public,
From Angola to Zambia to Uzbekistan: three emblematic cases reveal how China’s model of economic expansion is generating growing resistance around the world Three emblematic
“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive
All eyes have been on Nepal since last week when a large but loosely organised protest by young people in Kathmandu turned into a revolution
Despite a strong showing in the polls, Israel’s center-left camp is still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties In
From New Labor Forum Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the 21st
Gen Z Protests Against Social Media Ban and Elite Corruption Become Mass Uprising Against State Violence Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Kathmandu after protests
From Himal Southasian After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, Nepal searches for a new
Young people are protesting over systemic corruption and a system that rewards ‘nepo kids’ over meritocracy Youth-led demonstrations against corruption erupted throughout Nepal on Monday,
In late August, demonstrations against housing allowances for national parliamentarians escalated dramatically when a motorcycle delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan, caught up in the protests, was
Earthquake in Afghanistan: When Customs Kill More Than the Quake, by S N Tripathy – 6 September 2025
The recent earthquake in Afghanistan was merciless. A 6.6-magnitude tremor, followed by powerful aftershocks, reduced villages to rubble, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring
The post-coup conflict has repeatedly confounded bold predictions of both swift regime collapse and decisive opposition victory. For now, the grinding reality points less to
Why BRICS is not a threat to imperialism, and an “anti-polar” alternative is needed If the Western liberal political empire has been shamed beyond repair
A nearly two-decade era of Indigenous-oriented governance and anti-neoliberal politics has come to an end in Bolivia. The Movement towards Socialism (MAS) government, which launched
August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a subculture of street protest that echoes the anti-Suharto activism of the 1990s. In opposing the new form
How Western Leftists and Anarchists Found ‘Convenient’ Voices From Eastern Europe Debates on anti-militarism continue to shake the anarchist movement in the western part of
How the Left Misread Syria The Syrian Revolution began in the context of the Arab Spring. While there were many reasons for protest, people took