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Soulèvements populaires
Les grandes lignes du dernier numéro d’Alternatives Sud, Soulèvements populaires, sous la coordination de Frédéric Thomas & François Polet, chercheurs au CETRI, dans cette capsule de 1’50 minutes.
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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 (…)
The institutional stakes of Nepal’s post-uprising election
After the Gen Z protests, Nepalis will choose between distinct political personalities – Balen Shah, Gagan Thapa and K P Sharma Oli – and different directions for the country’s democracy. With less than a week to go before Nepal goes to the polls in an election triggered by last September’s (…)
The strike and the sermon
Workers protesting the labour codes found themselves also responding to the Chief Justice’s courtroom critique of “jhanda unions”. Responding to the call of a joint platform of ten central trade unions and independent sectoral federations, workers across India observed a general strike on (…)
Nepal’s new reality
The protests in Nepal this week were unprecedented. In just 48 hours, a disparate movement of largely young people throughout major towns and cities brought down the entire political establishment that had dominated Nepalese politics since the 2006 revolution. The Gen Z movement was confronted (…)
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Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government
There are decades when nothing happens, and then days when decades happen. Two days – 8 and 9 September – changed the face of modern Nepal, figuratively and literally. What is happening in the country now is unprecedented. The entire state apparatus has been swept away. Prime Minister K P Sharma (…)
Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics
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 of patronage politics Reformasi gave rise to, today’s protesters pursue goals no less daunting than those of the movement that (…)
Gen Z and the spirit of Mau Mau
Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education. On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Kenya witnessed the largest street demonstrations in the country’s history. (…)
Democratic Masquerade in Bangladesh
A Nobel laureate is running Bangladesh. However, this isn’t democracy, it’s elite survival masquerading as reform. As 2025 began, with inflation climbing beyond 11 percent and mass demonstrations bringing major cities to a standstill, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government crumbled without (…)
The Condor Playbook : East Africa’s Transnational Crackdown on Dissent
Mohammed Amin Abdishukri offers a compelling account of recent coordinated transnational repression targeting cross-border activism by East African activists in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. He discusses the arrest and ill-treatment of human rights advocates who travelled to Tanzania to observe (…)
The incomplete end of Nepal’s Hindu monarchy
Violent pro-monarchy protests reveal Nepal’s incomplete transition from Hindu kingdom to secular republic, with nationalist myths and India’s Hindu Right feeding into royalist resurgence. In 1979, in the reign of Birendra Bir Bikram Shah, the Nepali monarchy instituted a few reforms to address (…)
Myanmar in 2025 : Change or Plus ça Change?
Despite hopes for change, things may stay the same or worsen in Myanmar, as the junta’s fight against resistance groups and civilians continues into another year. On 1 February 2025, Myanmar will enter a fifth year under military rule. Will 2025 bring change to Myanmar’s current woes? As (…)
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