Archive | December, 2025

A historic turning point in Sahelian sovereignty, as Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger bolstered their regional security through a unified military force and in the same week held its second AES summit.

A graphic history of the Partisan resistance in World War II provides a vivid, harrowing and valuable reminder of their crucial struggles, finds Eilidh Stewart.

This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imperialist political establishment, especially as his work gains renewed prominence among pro-Palestinian activists. It provides Sarah Jilani, one of the contributors to this special issue, with the space to respond to a 2025 policy report published by the British Conservative think tank Policy Exchange, titled After Gaza: Fanon and His Acolytes, which includes a footnote mocking Jilani while insulting Fanon’s legacy.

The Indian Constitution which emerged from the anti-colonial struggle took the “nation”, consisting of its people, as its starting point; the government under the Constitution is supposed to serve this “nation”.

The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long.

Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

Marxists advocate a world in which the working class is in the driver’s seat.

“Portraying Nigeria’s security challenges as a targeted campaign against a single religious group is a gross misrepresentation of reality,” said Nigeria’s information minister.

Sri Lanka is expected to pay over 25% of its total revenue in debt servicing every year at a time when Ditwah, as per early estimates, caused damages worth 7 billion USD or around 7% of the country’s GDP.

Per the Associated Press, the goal of the proposals is to: “restrict the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions for transgender children—include cutting off federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children and prohibiting federal Medicaid dollars from being used to fund such procedures.”

You don’t measure a society’s freedom by how much its citizenry are allowed to agree with their government, you measure it by how much they’re allowed to disagree.

A Weaponized Intellects review of John Bellamy Foster’s Breaking the Bonds of Fate—recovering Epicurus as a foundational materialist, tracing Marxism’s insurgent struggle against determinism and inevitability, and reasserting historical agency against the politics of surrender in an age of imperial decline.

While military options remain on the table, the U.S. is ramping up economic asphyxiation against the Venezuelan people.

And why the political establishment is panicking.

Videos circulating on social media show tents being blown away, strong winds scattering belongings, displaced people pleading for help, and children shivering from the cold.

For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.)

Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, tells Peoples Dispatch that 2026 brings opportunities for class struggle – if the left is ready to act boldly.

Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted he wants to take its oil and give it to U.S. corporations: “We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back”.

Councilors of the CNE who answer to the two-party system of Honduras declared Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah as president-elect for the period 2026-2030, without concluding the special scrutiny or resolving the challenges presented.

On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the “Left Front” movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.”