Ukraine: Election confirms right-wing government and its austerity and war aims
Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukrain
Boris Kagarlitsky: Rebel eastern Ukraine republics between war and elections
Polling station inside a rebel military base during elections in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.
South Africa: The political significance of NUMSA's expulsion from COSATU
NUMSA members dance at a demonstration.
Germany: Lift the ban on the PKK!
Kurds protest in Dusseldorf.
Spain: Podemos on road to sweeping away two-party system
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European economic stagnation: diagnoses and treatments
Trade unions in Greece have announced a general strike against austerity to take place on November 27, 2014.