Analysis
New Caledonia: The Kanak insurrection and the nickel industry
June 27th: New Caledonia has a quarter of the world’s nickel reserves, and each faction—separatists, loyalists and the State—have possessed one of the major factories Despite ongoing repression and the French colonial authorities’ announcements of a return to normal, the situation in New Caledonia is far from being resolved.
Notes from the US: On all counts
June 25th: Using the Trump cult, the far right prepares to take over---no matter who wins the presidency
A transformative election—but in which direction?
June 24th: We must prepare for an extreme right surge after the polls, no matter how few MPs the Tories and Reform end up with
Conspiracy and interstice: Notes on the wasteland
June 20th: Struggles over vacant land defend a plurality of ungovernable uses and relationships, beneath the mechanisms of capitalist ownership and state control
Walney report: “Democracy” without dissent
June 18th: Government’s adviser on “political violence and disruption" demonstrates how the British state machinery perceives the left in general and anarchists in particular
Five horrors from the Tory and Labour manifestos
June 17th: At times it looks like they are trying to outdo each other in being nasty Facing a crash at the polls on July 4, for a while now the Tories have been trying to look as tough as they can on a range of socially conservative issues, in the hope of overturning their polling fortunes.
EU election: Extreme right is no longer out in the cold
June 11th: News stories focus on dramatic little swings, but a much bigger, slower development is at stake
South African elections: Long road to nowhere?
June 5th: Record-low turnout shows loss of faith in the ANC party-state, but popular power has yet to fill the gap
“Technocrat” or far-right spymaster?
May 31st: Netherlands: New prime minister Dick Schoof is former intelligence chief who illegally spied on citizens and remains vague about democracy's red lines
Chip production in the multi-crisis
May 30th: With its massive ecological footprint, the semiconductor industry has been the material foundation for the IT assault - and now drives economic war between the US and China
