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        • Fierce optimism

          Benoît Bréville, April 2026
          On Saturday 7 March 50,000 people marched in London in protest at the war Israel and the United States are waging in Iran. It was a notable turnout by the standards of other Western capitals, but pitiful compared to past protests. On 15 February 2003 more than a million demonstrators filled London’s streets to try to (…) →

        • The fiction that moves the world forward, if we defend it

          Pedro Sánchez, April 2026
          The only real alternative to a multilateral order is not a new equilibrium, but disorder and chaos. Spain’s prime minister sets out the case for renewing multilateralism. →

        • Is Russia really the winner?

          Hélène Richard, April 2026
          Will Vladimir Putin be the real winner of Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran? The Russian federal budget for 2026 was based on an anticipated average of $59 per barrel of Urals crude and is now benefitting (…) →

        • Iran war: Europe plays the ever-faithful lapdog

          Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert, April 2026
          The war on Iran threatens Europe’s security and economy, yet even as the US violates international law, governments that once vehemently opposed the war in Iraq now limit themselves to muted protest. →
      • Current issue: April 2026
        …Iran war special report: this is Israel’s war; Pedro Sánchez calls for a multilateral order; Lebanon, the suffering grows; the invisible enemy in the sky; Israel’s insatiable need for war; is Russia really the winner? what international law tell us; Europe, still the faithful lapdog; will UK left regroup as Keir Starmer lurches right? Nigel Farage plays a long game; France, a far right that’s willing to use violence; ageing industrial giants that Kazakhstan continues to rely on; China’s riders and dancers, who are the winners? By the shores of Lake Kariba, remembering Zimbabwe’s past…

      • The new warmongers

        Anne-Cécile Robert, April 2026

      • This is Israel’s war

        Adlene Mohammedi, April 2026
        US imperialism is all too evident in the methods of the war in Iran, but what of its aims? With Trump struggling to articulate them clearly, it’s much easier to see what Israel hopes to gain. →

      • Ghosts of the past by the shores of Lake Kariba

        Léa Kalaora, April 2026
        After independence, Zimbabwe’s white minority lost its hold on land. Today, around Lake Kariba, dilapidated resorts still draw some nostalgic visitors, but who uses the lake is increasingly contested. →

      • Road to independence

        L. K., April 2026

      • Anger grows in Morocco’s rural heartland

        Eva Tapiero, March 2026
        Souss-Massa is Morocco’s largest fruit- and vegetable-growing region, producing mainly for export to Europe. But the workers behind its success see little benefit, fuelling protests over harsh conditions. →

      • Dancers and riders: China’s winners and losers

        Renaud Lambert, April 2026
        While some of China’s pensioners have never had it so good, with youth unemployment rising, many young people are losing faith that the system can deliver good jobs and upward mobility. →

      • Palestinian women: a history of resistance

        Hélène Servel & Asja Zaino, January 2025
        The foreign ministers of Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have condemned an Israeli law, passed on Monday. The new law, which has also been (…) →

      • Cuba, out in the cold

        Christophe Ventura, March 2026

      • The DRC’s security-for-minerals bargain

        Fanny Pigeaud, March 2026
        The DRC’s mineral wealth, long monopolised by China, is drawing renewed interest from the Trump administration. But strategic competition won’t (…) →

      • Silencing the messenger

        Francesca Albanese, March 2026

      • Institutions of the Islamic Republic

        Cécile Marin, June 2025
        On 8 March, the Assembly of Experts appointed a new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hodjatoleslam Mojtaba Khamenei will (…) →

      • Takeover by Big Tech

        Francesca Bria, November 2025

      • Israel-Iran: spiral to war in the Middle East

        A. B., May 2024
        Is the Middle East entering a dangerous spiral of violence? A week after Israel launched a massive aerial attack on more than a hundred military and nuclear (…) →

    • Gaza: from witness to resistance

    ‘Damar tam’ is an Arabic expression for total destruction. It’s the term most often used by Gazan survivors when describing the state of the Palestinian enclave. With more than 71,000 people dead, 170,000 wounded, 80% of buildings destroyed, Gaza is a field of ruins and shattered lives. The scale of the (…) →

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    archives

    • Iran in the eye of the storm

      Marmar Kabir, February 2026
      Brutal repression of protests in recent weeks has exposed an Iranian regime that is almost out of options. And foreign interference is increasing the pressure on national unity and (…) →

    • China’s high-speed rail project taps the brakes

      Arsène Ruhlmann, March 2026
      China aims to have 70,000km of high-speed rail by 2035 as regions compete for their own line, yet with capacity already exceeding demand, this huge state-run project could yet prove (…) →

    • Quiet please, we’re shooting

      Gideon Levy, April 2026
      A year ago, Israelis were told the Iranian threat had been neutralised. So why are they once again united in war against a danger, real or imagined? →

    • California’s underage workforce

      Robert J Lopez, March 2026
      California’s leaders take pride in some of the US’s toughest workplace safety laws. Yet thousands of underage workers, often the children of undocumented immigrants, help power its (…) →

    maps

    • Kazakhstan’s industrial and mining monotowns

      Cécile Marin, March 2026

    • Oil in a war zone

      Cécile Marin, March 2026

    • Fruit and vegetable pickers’ rates

      Lorena Iñiguez Elebee, March 2026

    • The four major powers compared

      Cécile Marin, January 2026

    Blog

    • Crypto-colonialism in the Caribbean

      Victoria Jones & Henry McCabe, 10 March 2026
      Saint Kitts and Nevis, the smallest sovereign nation in the Western hemisphere, has become the unlikely target of a crypto-millionaire whose designs on the island could reverberate (…) →

    • Iran unravelled, a little

      Paul Buhle, 23 February 2026
      To Trump’s advisors, Iran’s geopolitical position on the Indian Ocean, global trade route suggested something more ominous than terror: ‘a major transformation in the world (…) →

    • The United States’ history of regime change — revisited 

      Barbara Koeppel, 3 February 2026
      Since the early 20th century, the US has commandeered coups around the world, helping opposition figures and their mutinous militaries topple leaders whose policies they abhor. Why? (…) →

    • After defeating ISIS, Syria’s Kurds are abandoned

      Tanya Goudsouzian, 21 January 2026
      In 2014, the war against ISIS was focused in Iraq but it was clear that the end would come about only if its forces were destroyed in its Syrian sanctuary. The small contingent of (…) →
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    Podcast

    • Is China intent on remaking the world order?

      March 2024
      On this month’s podcast we’re joined by Le Monde diplomatique’s new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China’s global ambitions (‘China: (…) →

    • The price of being Israel’s best friend

      February 2024
      Our guest on this month’s podcast is Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over (…) →

    • Taiwan’s history, Taiwan’s future

      January 2024
      Taipei-based journalist Alice Hérait is our guest on this second podcast of the month on significant elections. Alice has a piece in the January edition of the paper entitled (…) →

    • US election: the case of South Carolina

      January 2024
      With the US primary season now under way, in this month’s podcast we turn the spotlight on the electoral contest in South Carolina, home state of prominent Trump challenger Nikki (…) →

    Classic texts

    • The effects of a communications revolution

      Jacques Ellul, May 1965
      Today, forms of mass communication, especially telecommunication, are developing and perfecting themselves at a pace that is difficult to imagine — faster, perhaps, than any other (…) →

    • The language of the foreigner

      Jacques Derrida, January 2002
      On 22 September 2001 Jacques Derrida, philosopher, writer and professor at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), was awarded Frankfurt’s Theodor-W-Adorno prize. (…) →

    • What is literature for?

      Juan Goytisolo & Günter Grass, November 1999
      The German writer Günter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, a decision that delighted all those who have admired the radical power of Grass’s writing since The Tin Drum (…) →

    • The media, the intelligentsia and Pierre Bourdieu

      Jacques Bouveresse, February 2004
      The media have begun to value media criticism, which now appears in newspapers and on radio and television, generally in a fairly harmless form. It allows them to be seen as final (…) →

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