Current issue: May 2016

Brazil, failure to reform; waiting for the Tobin tax; Iran elections, high hopes, little change; US, retreat into isolationism? Calais Jungle, the inside story; Ukraine’s healthcare timebomb; Japan, a women’s place? UK, India caste rules linger on; German American kultur war… and more…

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Why firefighters are against free trade

by Serge Halimi

The French demonstrators in the Nuit Debout movement (Up All Night) hope that a convergence of struggles will enable them to extend their appeal beyond the young and university-educated, and become part of an international dynamic. One of their (...)

‘Come and vote’

by Philippe Descamps

One of the keys to the 26 February and 29 April elections is the abstention rate. By offering a glimpse of possible change, the regime hoped to mobilise voters and show that the Green Movement of 2009 had been consigned to the past. With an (...)

The Dalits of Coventry  *

by Alexia Eychenne

What US foreign policy?  *

by Benoît Bréville

Japan’s stay-at-home mothers  *

by Johann Fleuri

An enemy within  *

by Pierre Rimbert

Reform on hold  *

by Hélène Richard
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