Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

What France's far right has learned from Israel's apartheid system

Benoît Bréville & Pierre Rimbert — 2026-07-30T11:39:52Z

There are regular warnings that France risks succumbing to fascism. But Mussolini's Italy may not be the model that attracts the far right; it could be Binyamin Netanyahu's de facto apartheid state.

- 2026/08 / editorial

Can capitalism save Cuba's revolution?

Julia Neima — 2026-07-30T11:39:51Z

Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening.

- 2026/08 / article

Donald Trump's Latin American proconsuls

Christophe Ventura — 2026-07-30T11:39:50Z

The US once supported military coups to keep Latin America under its control. Now, a weaker left and the rise of organised crime are helping the far right assert itself. This suits the White House just fine.

- 2026/08 / article

When the world took Ethiopia's side

Tarik Bouafia & Élodie Descamps — 2026-07-30T11:39:49Z

Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia in 1935 caused more than half a million deaths by the end of the Italian occupation in 1941. Why were the sanctions imposed on Italy only half-heartedly enforced?

- 2026/08 / article

White Australia's ‘unprecedented act of racism'?

Cédric Gouverneur — 2026-07-30T11:39:47Z

Australians rejected the idea of creating the Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in October 2023. Two years after this stinging defeat, the state of Victoria signed a treaty with its First Peoples.

- 2026/08 / article, 2026/08 australia

The geopolitics of luxury hotels

Lindita Çela & Tristan Coloma — 2026-07-30T11:39:46Z

While Saudi Arabia is banking on industrial investment and the UAE on logistics infrastructure, Qatar has gone for luxury tourism to consolidate its international position and diversify its economy.

- 2026/08 / article

South Korea: on the threshold of two worlds

Emil Pacha Valencia — 2026-07-30T11:39:45Z

South Korea's rapid modernisation has brought a need for reassurance often found through shamans and their connection with the spirit world. The practitioners are reaping its economic rewards.

- 2026/08 / article

Hirschfeld and Wolf: pioneers of sexual freedom

Sonia Combe — 2026-07-30T11:39:43Z

Before the Nazis came to power, Berlin was the centre of bold campaigns against state control over the body, championing abortion rights, homosexual equality and new understandings of sex and gender.

- 2026/08 / article

Inside meth's ‘golden triangle'

Prune Antoine — 2026-07-30T11:39:42Z

Europe's crystal meth trade is changing. In the Czech Republic a long-established cottage industry has given way to industrial-scale ‘kombilabs', as international organised crime groups push into a growing market.

- 2026/08 / article

Privilege has its own QR code

Élisa Perrigueur — 2026-07-30T11:39:40Z

There used to be no alternative to long queues for the most popular attractions at theme parks. Now, almost anywhere people have to wait, it's possible to skip to the front – for a price.

- 2026/08 / article