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• The Alliance of Sahel States launches unified military force and strengthens regional security

  

  A historic turning point in Sahelian sovereignty, as Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger bolstered their regional security through a unified military force and in the same week held its second AES summit.

• Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance – review

  

  A graphic history of the Partisan resistance in World War II provides a vivid, harrowing and valuable reminder of their crucial struggles, finds Eilidh Stewart.

• Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire

  

  This radical supplement to the editorial of ROAPE’s Fanon special issue raises awareness of how Fanon’s ideas, in the year of his centenary, continue to provoke fear and anxiety within the Western imperialist political establishment, especially as his work gains renewed prominence among pro-Palestinian activists. It provides Sarah Jilani, one of the contributors to this special issue, with the space to respond to a 2025 policy report published by the British Conservative think tank Policy Exchange, titled After Gaza: Fanon and His Acolytes, which includes a footnote mocking Jilani while insulting Fanon’s legacy.

• An outrageous assault on the Indian Constitution

  

  The Indian Constitution which emerged from the anti-colonial struggle took the “nation”, consisting of its people, as its starting point; the government under the Constitution is supposed to serve this “nation”.

• A thesis confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz and the Israel Lobby

  

  The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long.