- Militarism and the Climate Crisis
- Climate Justice Frontlines
- The Stakes Are Rising in Latin America
- Education in Vietnam
- Ending Incarceration of Women Around the World
- Sahel, Africa Juntas: Empty Threat to Imperialism
- Western Sahara vs Morocco
- Ukraine: Movement for Rights in the War Against Russian Invasion
- Iran Oil Workers Strike
- Finland: Minja Koskela on Fighting the Right
__________Militarism and the Climate Crisis
Patrick Bigger / Socialist Project (Toronto)
Right now, three categories of systemic militarized violence – for fossil fuels, energy transition resource extraction, and for punishing resistance and even survival – are all on the rise; resisting and bucking those trends will be imperative for genuine human security as the ecological crisis intensifies.
__________Climate Justice Frontlines
• COP30 Protests Sean Sinico / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
• São Paulo: Letter from the Peripheries Agência Mural / Global Voices (The Hague)
• Climate and Gender Justice: Lessons from Bangladesh Meghna Guhathakurta and Vinod Koshti / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
• Tunisia: We Want to Breathe Dhouha Djerbi / MERIP (Ardmore PA)
__________The Stakes Are Rising in Latin America
• Trump Lights a Fire Steve Ellner / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
• Chilean Communist Faces Runoff Charlie Ebert / Novara Media (London)
• Ecuadorian Voters Turn on Nobua Mark Becker / NACLA (New York)
• Youth on the Move in Peru Victoria Valenzuela / Waging Nonviolence (Brooklyn)
__________Education in Vietnam
Nicole Fernandez / The Borgen Project (Tacoma)
Vietnam transformed from one of Southeast Asia’s most underserved, war-torn nations in the early ’90s into a global model for poverty reduction. This transformation did not happen overnight. The strongest pillar in Vietnam’s poverty reduction is the expansion of access to education throughout the country, reaching even the most remote regions of Vietnam.
__________Ending Incarceration of Women Around the World
James Kilgore / Truthout (Sacramento)
The International Network of Formerly Incarcerated Women (INFIW) is the product of years of grassroots organizing across the globe — efforts that culminated in a 2023 convening in Bogota, Colombia, where 60 women from 17 countries met to share strategies on halting the massive population increase in women’s prisons and jails around the world. Now, in 2025, the collaboration has grown to represent women from 33 different countries.
__________Sahel, Africa Juntas: Empty Threat to Imperialism
Joshua Shangobiyi / Red Pepper (London)
Over the past five years, the Sahel has been reshaped by a series of military coups justified by promises to overhaul oppressive neocolonial systems. Each junta promised freedom, a new focus on development, and protection. But the strongmen leading Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are, similarly and in their own way, using anti-imperialist rhetoric to mask new oppressions.
__________Western Sahara vs Morocco
Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
The US, UK, and Europe, especially France, are bringing ever more pressure on the international community to legitimize the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, which in turn is handing over the occupied resources for Western countries to loot. The Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army of the Polisario Front has been launching daily attacks on the occupation forces from the liberated territory in the east.
__________Ukraine: Movement for Rights in the War Against Russian Invasion
Adam Novak / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
For nearly four years, Ukrainian defenders have fought not only Russian imperialism but also their own state’s failures in mobilisation, welfare, and accountability. Yet precisely through these struggles, Ukraine’s military culture demonstrates something authoritarian armies cannot replicate: democratic organising strengthens rather than weakens combat effectiveness.
__________Iran Oil Workers Strike
Murtaza Hussain / Drop Site (Washington DC)
Fifteen thousand workers went on strike at a major gas field in Iran, demanding improved wages and working conditions at the economically critical South Pars field. Despite a general climate of political repression inside Iran, labor activism has grown in recent years. Oil and gas workers have launched strikes in several different provinces.
__________Finland: Minja Koskela on Fighting the Right
Mike Watson and Minja Koskela / Jacobin
The leader of Finland’s Left Alliance spoke about how the right-wing-populist Finns Party is using its place in government to attack labor and public services, and how her party is resisting austerian dogmas. “We must show that voting for the Left will make your life better. We need to break free from the cynicism and distrust and outright hate that’s taken over and build something positive together.”
