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From India to Gaza: Youth Revolts and the Struggle to Break Open the Future
“What if all the cockroaches come together?” (Abhijeet Dipke) Marx and Engels issued the historic call: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” Today, that summons returns with renewed urgency and takes a new form: Young people of the world unite and resist. (…)
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about. For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young (…)
With the Modi Aura Dispelled, Hope for a Revival of Democratic Voices
The student demand for accountability could not be suppressed by police brutality; it instead grew stronger and spread across the country. It speaks of a revival of a democratic voice against the state’s indifference to citizens’ concerns and the government’s belief that it was accountable to (…)
US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way
The Emirates promised Trump a huge investment, which appears to be playing a role in Washington’s unwillingness to intervene in their arm sales to RSF. Massad Boulos, the Trump Administration’s top adviser for Africa and point man on Sudan, recently spoke before the United Nations Security (…)
Should BRICS+ Lead the Global South?
Leadership of the Global South has gradually declined since the 1980s. Many hope BRICS+ will fill the vacuum, but its purpose and membership suggest such hopes may be misplaced. A repurposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) offers the best way forward. Golden Age The post-World War Two (WW2) (…)
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United Arab Emirates: Not all empires look the same
Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. Empire has never been only a matter of colonial occupation. The United States and Britain remain the most visible architects of (…)
Women Face the Greatest Climate Risks but Are Critical to Climate Action
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, yet women’s leadership and local knowledge are critical to building more resilient communities. The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder (…)
The Most Racist World Cup In History
The football World Cup starts this Thursday and the US regime has already guaranteed that it will be the most racist in history. FIFA-appointed Somalian referee Omar Artan, voted the best referee in Africa last year and travelling on a diplomatic passport, was denied entry to the USwhen he (…)
New Geopolitics Threatens More Food Crises
Recent geopolitical trends threaten more food crises, especially in developing countries. A new IPES-Food report urges a strategy of ‘resilient self-reliance’, proposing available opportunities to improve equity, sustainability and solidarity. Enhancing vulnerability The New Geopolitics of (…)
Mali : Anticolonialism in the age of fragmentation
The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse: how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism. Bamako seems to have returned to its own rhythm. Schools have reopened after two days of national mourning, and movement (…)
Anatomy of India’s New Regime
India’s current regime rests on three interwoven factors: Hindutva, a captured civil society, and an authoritarian state. Together they have produced a decade-long collective suspension of disbelief. The challenge is to contest all three arenas simultaneously & produce a new imagination for (…)
Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras - The Dark Side of the Energy Transition
This TNI report examines how large-scale solar projects in Honduras have reproduced patterns of dispossession, repression, and corporate profiteering in the name of the green transition. Through the lens of “green colonialism,” it explores how foreign investors, privatization, and investor (…)
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Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution. Post-war food security Food policies in the Global South have evolved (…)
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More pragmatic than socialist - Burkina Faso’s recent politics is no remake of Sankarism
Since Burkina Faso’s current president Ibrahim Traoré came to power through a military coup in 2022, parallels between Traoré and the country’s former president and Pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara (1983-1987) have become commonplace. In this context, ROAPE’s Bettina Engels urges caution in (…)
Women’s Political Participation in Yemen: Institutional Pathways and Dynamics of Inclusion
Executive Summary Women’s political participation in Yemen is declining. It is also taking place within a political system that is increasingly fragmented, informal, and dependent on closed power-sharing arrangements. Before the outbreak of the current conflict, the institutional pathways (…)
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ICARRD+20 and the emerging global coalition behind the 4Rs
Land Redistribution, Recognition, Restitution and Regulation ICARRD+20 in Cartagena brought governments, scholars, and social movements together to revisit the unfinished agenda of agrarian reform. Amid deepening land inequality and ecological crisis, debates converged around the 4Rs: (…)
Western Sahara: Whose right to exist?
Last week, Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop announced that his country would no longer recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, throwing Bamako’s weight, instead, behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara. The decision is not especially surprising—Mali is locked in a (…)
Kashmiri protests over Iran and Palestine are also protests over Kashmir
When news broke that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, had been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike on 28 February, thousands of Kashmiris poured into Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar, scaling its iconic clock tower to drape it with his portrait and Palestinian flags. The authorities (…)
A reckoning for Thailand’s liberals
Thailand’s February 2026 election was a disaster for reformist politics in Thailand, and the People’s Party bears much of the blame. Not only did it facilitate Bhumjaithai’s capture of the state in the lead up to the polls—by treating Pheu Thai as an establishment adversary, the liberal (…)
The UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Regulating Corporate Power in the Era of Deregulation
This study published by South Centre and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) examines how the United Nations Legally Binding Instrument serves as a vital tool to preserve state sovereignty and to ensure the primacy of human rights in the era of deregulation. Read the full report below.
Senegal’s theater of morality
As debt mounts and police violence on campuses goes unanswered, Senegal’s government is targeting its queer citizens. Let us be precise about what happened on March 11, 2026. Senegal’s National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to (…)