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Two Fronts: How Russia and the Ukrainian State Pressured Civil Society in 2025

Adam Novak — 2026-06-17T15:11:42Z

“This review draws on ZMINA's findings while situating them within the broader picture documented by Ukraine's democratic socialist left — the movements fighting since 2022 on two fronts simultaneously: against Russian recolonisation and against the neoliberal state and far-right at home.”

- Features / Russia, Ukraine

The political economy of Ukraine's war and the politics of a coming bad peace

Adam Novak — 2026-05-29T13:32:13Z

What Moscow expected to be a war of weeks is now into its fifth year. Ukrainian railway workers, miners and energy crews keep the country running under Russian bombardment while Ukraine's oligarchic state will not ask the rich to pay for defence. This article documents the price the Ukrainian working class is paying, the feminised volunteer infrastructure carrying what the state will not, the mass anti-corruption mobilisations, and the stakes of a reconstruction now being designed in donor conferences.

- Features / Economy, Ukraine

Hungary 2026: An Autopsy of Sixteen Years of Illiberalism.

Adam Novak — 2026-04-16T08:42:38Z

The Hungarian legislative elections of 12 April 2026 brought to an end sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. Péter Magyar's Tisza (Respect and Freedom [Tisztelet és Szabadság]) party won a super-majority of 138 seats out of 199, inflicting on Fidesz a defeat explained by judicial scandals, saturation of the identitarian discourse, a generational fracture, and the concrete effects of the freeze on European funds.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Hungary

When past and present collide: Indonesia 1965-2025

Adam Novak, Pierre Rousset — 2025-12-22T09:45:53Z

“At the time of the US escalation in Vietnam, Indonesia was the scene of one of the worst bloodbaths in modern history, committed under the auspices of Washington and London. Sixty years later, the archipelago is at the heart of youth revolts against the privileges of the oligarchy and corruption, in defence of a democracy dearly won back since 1998.”

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Indonesia, Youth and student movements, Protest movements

We fight, we have rights: How soldiers' democracy powers Ukraine's resistance

Adam Novak — 2025-11-19T15:38:44Z

“For nearly four years, Ukrainian defenders have fought not only Russian imperialism but also their own state's failures in mobilisation, welfare, and accountability.”

- Features / Women, Ukraine

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

Adam Novak — 2025-05-12T11:52:05Z

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.

- Features / Religion

Call for donations for ESSF's Asia 2025 Solidarity Fund - Joining forces

Adam Novak, Pierre Rousset — 2024-12-05T20:02:39Z

The annual appeal of Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Solidarity after disasters , Asia

Call for donations for ESSF Solidarity Fund 2022 - Getting ready for a new exceptional year!

Adam Novak, ESSF, Pierre Rousset — 2021-12-06T08:41:41Z

“ESSF supports the action of our partner associations and networks, without substituting for them. The initiative, the ‘thinking head' of our solidarity is in Asia, not in Europe.”

- IV563 - December 2021 / Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar

A country without an economy?

Adam Novak — 2008-02-29T11:25:00Z

Media coverage of Kosovo's recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence has focused on the risk of conflict with Serbia, and the broader geopolitical risks for unresolved separatist struggles in Bosnia and the former Soviet Union.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Albania, Serbia