- Greenlanders Respond to Trump
- Scientists Oppose EU Rearmament
- Nigeria Heats Up
- Citizens’ Assemblies in the Balkans
- Party Politics
- General Strikes
- Ukraine Solidarity Meeting in Brussels
- South Korean Youth
- Quebec Left Looks Ahead
- Irish Revolutionaries Against the Russian Empire
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Greenlanders Respond to Trump
Holly Williams / CBS News (New York)
Two thousand miles north of Washington, in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, they’re watching with anxiety and anger. Aaja Chemnitz, one of Greenland’s representatives in Denmark’s Parliament, said, “If we were to be American, it would mean that we would lose our language. We would lose a culture.”
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Scientists Oppose EU Rearmament
Carlo Rovelli, Flavio Del Santo and Francesca Vidotto / International Union of Scientists
Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released “Scientists against rearmament - A manifesto” and are calling on scientists, engineers, medical professionals, mathematicians, scholars, and the broader science community to support their stance.
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Nigeria Heats Up
Baba Aye / Links (Sydney)
This is for us to draw lessons from them so that we can be better prepared and more strategically oriented and thus able to deepen incoming mass storms of revolts towards revolution. The three milestones of mass struggle in 21st century Nigeria have been the #OccupyNigeria January Uprising in 2012, #EndSARS Rebellion in 2020 and the #EndBadGovernance/#EndHunger protests in 2024.
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Citizens’ Assemblies in the Balkans
Yavor Tarinski / Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (Athens)
In different temporal and spatial realities, in moments of social upheaval, societies begin to move and self-organize. Nowadays the institutional expression of this rebellious creativity is carried by social movements around the world when resisting injustice. We witness it also in the Balkans, where a particular grassroots institution persistently makes its appearance at every major upheaval – plenums.
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Party Politics
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General Strikes
- West Bank Nader Durgham / Middle East Eye (London)
- Argentina Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams (Portland ME)
- Greece Angeliki Koutantou and Stamos Prousalis / Reuters (London)
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Ukraine Solidarity Meeting in Brussels
Dick Nichols / Green Left (Sydney)
The Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference on March 26–27 drew together about 200 activists from a score of countries. It took up dialogue and collaboration between Ukraine’s many social movements, Ukraine solidarity groups and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and national MPs from left, green, social-democratic and progressive national independence formations.
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South Korean Youth
Park Hyun-jung and Chung In-seon / Hankyoreh (Seoul)
Witnessing and participating in the mass protests that fostered broad solidarity and led to the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol, has spurred many young Koreans, especially women and LGBTQ+ Koreans, to become interested in labor organizing and political engagement.
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Quebec Left Looks Ahead
Bernard Rioux / Socialist Project (Toronto)
The ecosocialist and ecofeminist left must oppose an electoralist strategy for building a government party claiming to be realistic. Instead it should aim to build power in society by strengthening democratic expression, combativeness, and unity of different anti-systemic social movements. This approach, both to the social left and to Québec solidaire, aims to rally a popular majority.
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Backstory: Irish Revolutionaries Against the Russian Empire
Maurice J. Casey / Meduza (Riga)
Hotel Lux author Maurice J. Casey looks back on the period from the 1880s to the 1920s, when Irish revolutionaries and a variety of radicals mobilizing against the Russian Empire found causes for comparison, solidarity, and even collaboration.
