Since Sunday night, a veritable game of cat and mouse has been played out on the streets of Belgrade between citizens and the police. The principle is simple and highly effective: erect improvised barricades, block a street or intersection, wait for the police to arrive, then disperse peacefully before starting again further on. In this ballet of non-violent resistance, each withdrawal is a new opening. While the police dismantle the roadblocks, sometimes violently, others form elsewhere. And this elusive movement is spreading throughout the country.

“Everything is moving toward the eventual establishment of a new political regime in the country. Massive and sustained popular mobilisation is what can put a stop to this reactionary process, but this must not sideline the national midterm elections next October, which are also a decisive arena for struggle.”

In Madagascar, parliamentary bills are kept secret until they are passed. Neither citizens nor MPs can debate texts that are sometimes crucial to the life of the country. In the face of this authoritarian closure, civil society organizations are denouncing an anti-democratic drift orchestrated by Rajoelina's government.

“Mamdani's campaign, platform, and victory point a possible new direction for the Democrats and for the left. But it will be hard to beat the billionaires.”

“In Senegal, in just five years, the number of sardinella has fallen by 80%. This small, very inexpensive pelagic fish is at the heart of the popular diet and is used in the composition of the national dish: thieboudien.”

“The new defence and security policy adopted at the annual meeting does not indicate that initiatives to organize protests against military armament will come from this direction - at least not from the party leadership. Time will tell if others take up the task.”

On 1 June 2025, judges at all levels of the judiciary were elected by direct suffrage throughout Mexico. From local judges to members of the Federal Supreme Court, all positions were subject to a popular vote.

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL popular resistance is trickling up to some of the sites of political power, including the federal courts — although not fast or far enough, by a long shot. That's been the important takeaway from the first 100-plus days of the Trump administration. But we're barely at the beginning of what will be a long battle with ups and downs.

While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes' and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic', what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.

The Argentine political field is (again) in turmoil. A few months before the mid-term legislative elections, and only a few days after the announcement of her candidacy as a regional deputy, the Supreme Court has just confirmed former president Cristina Kirchner's conviction for corruption: 6 years in prison and lifetime ineligibility.

The United States has joined Israel in its war on Iran, increasing the chances for a wider regional war, one that could become a forever-war quagmire as the Iraq War did. President Donald Trump sent B-2 bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on nuclear facilities in Fordo and Natanz while a submarine launched Tomahawk missiles at another facility in Istfahan.

Already in bad shape after 22 years of Putin's repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.

The leader of Anticapitalistas believes that the police plot that sought to implicate him in the alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine in 2016 was intended to attack Podemos "at a key moment in the politics of change" and announced, in an interview with elDiario.es, his willingness to take that conspiracy to the courts.

A month ago, the detonations of automatic weapons and heavy artillery resounded in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, putting an end to the illusion of a stabilisation of the country. The responsibility of prime minister Abdul Dbeibah in triggering conflicts between militias to protect his corruption network has aroused popular condemnation.

With Israel's attack on Iran, the situation in the Middle East is accelerating again, while the international movement for Palestine is growing, especially in France, where the next stop is at Le Bourget airport in northern Paris. The massacre in Gaza gets more unbearable every day, with the murders of Gazans during humanitarian aid distributions, starvation, images of emaciated children and examples of the absolute horror experienced by the people.

“What America needs is not just a protest, but a project. A project for a just state. A project for a working society.”

The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?

“Erik's union had a tradition of international solidarity going back to the Vietnam War and 1973 Chilean coup, in which a generation of trade union activists were murdered.”

“Solidarity actions like these have a long history. It was Swedish dockworkers who first refused to handle cargo from Chile after the coup d'etat and installation of Pinochet, and who pioneered the Swedish boycott on South African cargo in solidarity with the anti-apartheid movement.”

On Wednesday 4 June, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel's war crimes.