IVP615 - April 2026

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”

There are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.

“I fired them like dogs.” This is the formula that US president Donald Trump, with the elegance we know him for, used to sum up his battle with the American company Anthropic. He will have to wait a little longer before bragging: in a first order issued on 27 March 2026, the court suspended the blacklisting of the artificial intelligence (AI) giant, whose tools can therefore still be used by administrations, contrary to the president’s wishes. But the tug-of-war is not over, and we must take the measure of what is at stake: the United States’ use of AI in the service of a regime of terror.

Amandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.

Mainstream Pakistan is basking in (self)glory. As host of the US-Iran negotiations — rumours of a second-round abuzz — Islamabad is upbeat. From talk show hosts to YouTube influencers, the one-dimensional message is clear: Pakistan has finally been assigned the role it deserves in the global hierarchy.

During a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump made racist comments on people of Somali origin, calling them “low-IQ” and “bad people”.

“The future of Hungary is in the hands of the thousands of young people who, since Sunday night, have invaded the streets of Budapest, in the civil society that is mobilizing and organizing, in the possibility that they will not stop there and not be satisfied with Magyar’s victory.”

The far-right mafia managed to reach the second round. To achieve this, they and the entire mafia pact in Congress forged a strategy to avoid being defeated again, as had happened in 2021. The strategy employed consisted of a series of measures that express the decay of bourgeois democracy as we know it and, at the same time, reflect anti-popular authoritarianism.

“Nevertheless, there is today a left-wing sensibility in Lebanon, anti-imperialist, opposed to the occupation and which has concrete effects on the ground, limited but nevertheless real. It is trying to build something, in particular what could be called a form of civil resistance.”