By Rio Kogoya Rio Kogoya is an indigenous youth of West Papua who comes from the highland part of the region, from the Lani tribe. He is also a member of Progressive Papuan Youth (KMP2), a collective of Papuan youth established in Jakarta in 2023. The first aim was to discuss and develop a progressive individuals to fight the mainstream solutions to the West Papua conflict, and also to eliminate patronism in the democratic movement. The collective has adapted the principles o

In the population of Juan Antonio Rios, in the heat of the popular uprising that took place in October 2019, a territorial assembly was self-convened among the residents. It initially lacked a concrete objective but responded to the need to organize life in the face of the new scenario that the uprising created. From that date until today, our population has maintained grassroots work that has overflowed into other areas, surpassing the initiative of the assembly and generati

The 1st April 2025, the Revolutionary Socialist League, together with other political organizations, organized an event in Kenya entitled “Exposing State weaponization of drugs and alcohol against activists”. The aim was to to “discuss the systematic use of drugs and alcohol as a tool to destabilize youth-led movements and misrepresent protests as driven by intoxicated individuals rather than politically conscious and organized communities.” We wanted to share with you a test