Bangladesh protests

After Hasina’s resignation, the struggle over the power vacuum continues in Bangladesh

Badrul Alam — Prime minister Sheikh Hasina used all the tools of repression at her disposal against the people to retain power, but was defeated in the end.
Anti Tommy Robinson protest

Anti*Capitalist Resistance (England & Cymru/Wales): Solidarity and unity now

Anti*Capitalist Resistance statement on far-right violence sweeping Britain and Northern Ireland
Protests Georgia Commons

Local communities and labor movements under threat in Sakartvelo: Interview with Georgian left activists

Daria Saburova — In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto.
Bangladesh protests

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: Statement on the developments in Bangladesh

CPI(ML) Liberation — We congratulate the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh at this hour of victorious assertion.

Jess Spear (RISE, Ireland): Capitalism kills — The case for ecosocialism

Jess Spear — We need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of what we are doing. We are not just ecosocialists when we are campaigning about the environment and socialists the rest of the time.
Kamala Harris

United States: The (undemocratic) Democratic Party machine lurches toward the election

Sharon Smith — Kamala Harris’ rhetoric has tended to be more progressive than Biden’s, but Biden’s policies are very likely to be Harris’ policies in a future presidency because Harris has never strayed far from them, whatever language she has used.
wave in US politics

The United States presidential election after Biden’s withdrawal — The energy has changed. The underlying politics have not.

Max Elbaum — The mood among opponents of MAGA has shifted dramatically. But the electoral map hasn’t changed, and the Gaza genocide continues. What does this mean for progressives and the socialist Left?
Lenin

Lenin’s contributions to political economy

Raju J Das — Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.
burst balloon

Liminal time: The age of uncertainty

Álvaro García Linera — We are witnessing the slow and melancholic disintegration of the old free market order and the nascent rise of various alternative models, none of which has secured a definitive foothold yet.
Protest in France against Le Pen and Macron

‘The left should not be making concessions, but dictating its terms’: Boris Kagarlitsky on the far right threat, British Labour, and the French left’s chances of success

Boris Kagarlitsky — The influence of the far right has kept growing in precisely the degree to which the left has retreated from its previous class politics.
EU election tally room

Far-right challenge and the left-democratic response in Europe

Akash Bhattacharya — As the Indian people mounted a strong fightback against Hindutva/corporate rule of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the political battle between the far-right and democratic forces entered a new phase in Europe.
President Rodrigo Duterte and President Donald Trump at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on November 13, 2017.

Walden Bello — Fascism is at the gates. How should we counter it?

Walden Bello — Two recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now.