| All around the world this week, young people are out on the streets. Harrison Stetler and June Loper have been covering the situation in France, where student protests have become more militant as the police crackdown on demonstrators has become more violent. Read their latest about whether France’s far right could be the biggest beneficiaries of this social unrest.
Meanwhile, in India, Gen Z protesters are demonstrating against the Modi government’s erasure of 130 million people from the voter rolls. Shilpi Chhotray talked to Mumbai journalist Shrishti Khanna about the Cockroach Janta Party, the youth-led movement that began in response to widespread exam leaks and is demanding systemic education reform. Students are striking in Albania, too. Mitchell Prothero wrote about that movement, which has arisen over “increased education fees, poor school conditions, and a lengthy list of government corruption scandals, including the possibly illegal sale of land to Jared Kushner for luxury property development.”
There are signs that the democratic left may, in fact, be getting somewhere. Read Nicole Froio on how Lula’s Workers’ Party is organizing the public ahead of Brazil’s upcoming runoff election this Sunday, and Sasha Abramsky on Hungary, where Trump’s favorite dictator Viktor Orbán lost in a landslide after a decade in power.
-Tisya Mavuram
Engagement Editor, The Nation |
