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  • Syria

    Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process

    18 May 2025, by Joseph Daher

    For the country’s revival to be successful after years of war, inclusion of the population and democratization during the transitional period will be necessary, or national cohesion may be undermined.

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  • South Asia

    Kashmir, India, Pakistan: on the history and internationalist stakes of a state of war

    17 May 2025, by Pierre Rousset

    This article attempts to take stock of the recent ‘hot’ crisis between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Many factors need to be taken into account. Recent events are undoubtedly part of a long history of military tensions and wars dating back to the disastrous partition imposed on the sub-continent by British imperialism in 1947. In recent years, however, profound changes have affected the countries concerned, as well as the geopolitical environment, regional management of water resources and the weapons used. So we cannot assume that history will simply repeat itself almost identically. This is perhaps the main question before us: what’s new? The answer, of course, lies primarily with the left-wing organisations in the region. I shall confine myself to submitting some elements of analysis or hypotheses for discussion and criticism, even if I have to revise later my copy.

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  • USA

    Francis. The Pope Who Spoke Softly—and Carried the Same Big Stick

    12 May 2025, by Adam Novak

    Pope Francis was better than his predecessors. He integrated climate change into the Church’s concerns and widened space for discussion of social justice. His reign as Pope left the Catholic Church a marginally better place for the poor and the weak. He named more Cardinals from the Global South, where most Catholics live.

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  • Catholic Church

    The Unexpected Pope

    12 May 2025, by Michael Löwy

    The Marxist scholar proposes a reading of the ruptures that marked Francis’s papacy, particularly his commitment to the poor and his ecological sensitivity. Was Bergoglio merely a parenthesis in the long history of the Catholic Church or the beginning of a different path?

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