Linda Farthing & Benjamin Swift — Amidst bitter infighting and economic crisis, Bolivia’s left suffered a major defeat after nearly two decades of groundbreaking governance.

Eric Toussaint on why the BRICS do not offer an alternative financing and trade model for the Global South.

Patrick Bond on why BRICS is not a threat to imperialism and an “anti-polar” alternative is needed.

Shir Hever — Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives.

Gilbert Achcar — Western governments’ support for the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza has been part of a gradual banalization of the far right by the “centrists”.

Bjarke Friborg discusses his recent visit to Ukraine and why the Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on issues of popular defence and security in Europe.

Ellen Engelstad — In the end the left bloc won the election, but the vote has delivered a far less convincing mandate for change than the previous one

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.

Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee — The united mobilisation of the Latin American people, together with US and Canadian workers, is urgently needed to block Trump’s threats and attacks.

A call by the GEBRAK (Labour Movement with the People) alliance for rebuilding the unity of the organised movements, advancing demands that touch on changes to people's lives, and launching brave and sustainable actions to strike back at oligarchic power.

Democratic Socialists of America member Cyn Huang on the party’s recent National Convention in Chicago.

William Shoki — The moral clarity of the youth uprising is not in doubt. But clarity alone is not power. A movement capable of naming injustice must also be capable of transforming it.