It's election time in Ireland, and polling has shown a surge in support for Sinn Féin. This election could mark the end of the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael duopoly that has dominated Irish politics for nearly a century

by David Hartery
Feb. 3, 2020

Thousands of neighbourhood assemblies have broken out across Chile, an account of how one functions in Barrio Brasil, Santiago, the development of capacities for self-management and its limits.

by Charlie Ebert, Tamara Hopewell-Barreda
Jan. 7, 2020

What is the condition of the Chilean rebellion nearly two months after its beginnings?

by Charlie Ebert
Dec. 9, 2019

There are potential contradictions between decarbonisation in the Global North and the needs of communities in the Global South. How should we handle them?

by Daniel Willis
Nov. 18, 2019

We unequivocally condemn the unfolding coup in Bolivia, and offer our solidarity to the Bolivian people.

by The Editors
Nov. 11, 2019

Chile's protests aren’t about the 30 peso rise. They are about the 30 years of ‘democracy’ suffered since the official end of the dictatorship and a direct result of a growing extra-parliamentary left.

by Charlie Ebert
Oct. 23, 2019

Turkey is ready to foot the bill for a war in the northeast of Syria, and the US, headed by Donald Trump, is only to happy to sell.

by Muhsin Yorulmaz
Oct. 9, 2019

The scale of the climate is global, but propositions on the left have largely confined themselves to the scale of the national and territoriality bounded - any Green New Deal must include free movement

by Conor Sewell
Sept. 19, 2019

The newly appointed portfolio of European Commissioners underlines how the political mainstream is singularly incapable of turning back Europe’s neo-fascist tide.

by Sabrina Huck
Sept. 13, 2019

In memory of historian, sociologist and world-systems theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein, who passed away recently at the age of 88.

by Max Ajl
Sept. 6, 2019

A participants overview and thoughts of Labours International Social Forum at SOAS in London on the 13th and 14th July 2019.

by Nolan MacGregor
July 21, 2019

SYRIZA's betrayals will see them crushed in the upcoming elections, but New Democracy's victory will see far-right members of the party as key powerbrokers

by Augustine Zenakos
July 5, 2019

Ahead of this year's elections, religious traditionalists have set their sights on LGBT issues as a key battleground in a new culture war. How did this happen, and is there hope for queer people in modern Poland?

by Stefan Bielik
July 3, 2019

Despite much media fanfare abroad to the contrary, Volodymyr Zelenskyi is not just a humble comedian, nor a political outsider, and his rise to power was far from improbable.

by Oleksiy Radynski
June 17, 2019

The left topped the polls at the recent elections in Barcelona, but if they cannot find common ground and work together it will be a grave betrayal of their voters.

by Kate Shea Baird
June 10, 2019

Utsa Patnaik is a Marxist economist who has spent her career writing on agrarian change and development. Here she discusses her life's work, economic history and imperialism as income deflation

by Max Ajl, Utsa Patnaik
March 12, 2019

Kurdish politician and activist Leyla Güven's hunger strike enters it's 88th day today. Her struggle against the AKP's fascism and oppression deserves international solidarity.

by Ezgi Mete
Feb. 3, 2019

National President of Brazil's Workers' Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, discusses US imperialism, self-determination and her recent visit to Venezuela

by Brian Mier
Jan. 23, 2019

In the following interview, independent journalist and Paris resident Cole Stangler describes how politicians and the labour movement have responded to the yellow vests

by Joe Hayns, Cole Stangler
Dec. 17, 2018

If mind-stopping clichés of violence and corruption do not correspond with voting patterns or Bolsonaro’s governmental plan, why did he win the election? It was not a free or fair process.

by Brian Mier
Nov. 4, 2018

Public education and critical thought are under threat, as Bolsonaro and his supporters have declared war on 'Marxist indoctrination', the legacy of Paulo Freire and 'Gender ideology'

by Larissa Jacheta Riberti
Oct. 27, 2018

It's vital to US geopolitical interests and the interests of the international capital committed to exploiting Brazil's natural resources, that Bolsonaro wins the election

by Marcelo Zero
Oct. 24, 2018

Hate politics drives the most violent election process since Brazil's re-democratization

by Guilherme Soares Dias, Juliana Gonçalves
Oct. 22, 2018

The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has sparked much international outrage. Less examined is Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen, heavily supported, at every stage, by the British government.

by David Wearing
Oct. 19, 2018

The government of Nicolás Maduro is under threat from an emboldened, radical Right.

by Daniel Willis
Oct. 14, 2018

On Sunday, voters go to the polls. The fate of Brazilian democracy hangs in the balance. Marcos Arruda spells out the stakes and possible consequences.

by Marcos Arruda
Oct. 5, 2018

To much fanfare internationally, Alexis Tsipras recently announced that austerity is 'officially' over in Greece. But far from a Greek tragedy, the story of SYRIZA is one of opportunism and political cowardice

by Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou
Sept. 20, 2018

Labour’s goal should be to transition the UK out of its post-imperial phase of militarism and support for US hegemony, and into a new foreign policy paradigm of socialist internationalism.

by David Wearing
Sept. 17, 2018

A tribute to the life and thought of Samir Amin. Communist, champion of the Global South and trailblazer of dependency theory

by Griffin McCarthy Bur
Sept. 9, 2018

Dublin's housing market is out of control, and Fine Gael have no intention of stepping in to help, but ordinary renters are taking action into their own hands.

by Odrán Waldron
Aug. 21, 2018

Since 2016, led by centrist and far-right parties, European migration policies have shifted to the right. What role can pro-immigration left groups play in changing this reactionary wave?

by Edna Bonhomme
July 17, 2018

The cracks are beginning to show – now more than ever, we must take a stand against international complicity and show solidarity with the Kurdish and Turkish left

by Rosa Gilbert
June 24, 2018

Australia is a laboratory in the future of global border control systems, with deep investment by parties of the social democratic left. Here, xBorder discuss its operation and opportunities for disruption.

by xBorder
June 14, 2018

The story of Chilean President Salvador Allende's efforts to secure Chile's road to socialism through cutting-edge central planning

by Jack Yates
June 13, 2018

What's so terrifying about the consolidation of Viktor Orbán's regime is how little reassurance it offers to democrats or socialists

by Carl Rowlands
June 9, 2018

Emerging divisions in the South African trade union movement find their roots in the struggle against Apartheid

by Sam Morecroft
May 27, 2018

In Gaza, the Land Day protests are not just a struggle for human rights, but are part of a long tradition of resistance against the existence of Israel as a settler-colonial society

by Hassan E.T.
May 13, 2018

In the post-coup atmosphere, the Brazilian media and government have used the tragedy at Paysandu square to attack poor people, social movements and the right to the city.

by Brian Mier
May 5, 2018

With every intense wave of Decommunisation of public space, where one 'totalitarianism' is denounced, a parallel rehabilitation of another is taking place.

by Owen Hatherley
May 4, 2018

The jailing of President Lula marks another stage in the deterioration of Brazil’s democracy: the consolidation of a state of exception and the failure of the rule of law in Brazil.

by Aline Piva
April 29, 2018

The story of Sen Katayama, his vision, and the scale of his impact on the labour movements of Japan, America, and the USSR.

by Jack Yates
April 22, 2018

This commentary discusses the necessity for struggle against the labour reforms of Emmanuel Macron, acknowledging the deepening racial divisions it will exacerbate

by Joe Hayns, Pearl Ahrens
April 11, 2018

Labour’s new International Development paper, spearheaded by Kate Osamor MP, represents a clean break with New Labour orthodoxy

by Nick Dearden
April 8, 2018

Why the Left must stand with the HDP in Neo-Ottoman Turkey

by Rosa Gilbert
Feb. 14, 2018

Anti-Coalition Campaigning in the SPD

by Joe Corcoran
Feb. 11, 2018

Brazil has just taken another step toward the dismantling of its democracy.

by Aline Piva
Jan. 27, 2018

In October 2017, the Tunisian Parliament proposed a bill that would cut funding for public schools and hospitals.

by Edna Bonhomme
Jan. 24, 2018

In December, 2017, Gabriel Souza, a São Paulo vocational school student, fell and hurt his back while working at his job at Burger King.

by Brian Mier
Jan. 17, 2018

The endless epidemic of “soft coups” promoted by the White House has once again attacked Honduras.

by Atilio A. Borón
Dec. 19, 2017

Poland's annual Independence Day march has become a focal point for right-wing religious nationalism. How did we get here?

by Stefan Bielik
Nov. 29, 2017

Since the beginning of October, many Peruvians have doubtlessly been preoccupied by the national football team’s fixtures against Argentina and Colombia.

by Daniel Willis
Oct. 26, 2017

The black beady eyes looking over your left shoulder as you face into them, the black beret effortlessly lounging on the top of his head, the left cheek dimming into the shadow of his long black hair.

by Odrán Waldron
Oct. 25, 2017

Most sensible commentators will tell you today that the Pink Tide is over.

by Daniel Willis
Oct. 5, 2017

In May 2015, as campaigning for the general election in Britain was underway, a flyer surfaced online urging “Dharmic voters" to vote for the Conservative party.

by Shruti
Aug. 21, 2017

This is a chapter from AK Press's Why Don't the Poor Rise Up, which is out now.

by Ellie Adekur Carlson
Aug. 9, 2017

There is one particular case study which may benefit the UK left the most: the turbulent Premiership of Gough Whitlam, Australia’s Great Reformer.

by Kieran Morris
Aug. 7, 2017

It is difficult to interpret exactly why José Carlos Mariátegui is such an unknown figure among the pantheon of international Marxist thinkers regularly discussed or referenced by the British Left.

by Daniel Willis
Aug. 6, 2017

In British society, war is presented as a ‘pragmatic’ matter; this depoliticisation of war has created a politics that revolves almost entirely around it.

by Jonathan Murden
June 14, 2017