Europe

Simon Hannah & Terry Conway — Your Party's founding conference was a battleground between unelected bureaucrats and the left, but in the end it has produced a new socialist and working-class party.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Reading Trump’s peace plan through Lenin’s method allows us to keep two planes in view at once: inter-imperialist rivalry and Ukraine’s national liberation struggle against an oppressor.

John Mullen — The situation in France opens up important questions for left activists, such as the potential and limits of left reformism, the role of trade union leaders, and the tasks of Marxist activists.

Irish ecosocialist activist Paul Murphy explains why Catherine Connolly’s campaign was so successful.

Maria Luisa Guevara explores the lessons of Romania’s 2010 turbo-austerity program, and the resistance to it, as the country undergoes another austerity wave.

Walden Bello interviews various leaders of La France Insoumise.

Paul Murphy — Catherine Connolly’s victory in the Presidential election is a watershed moment. It is the first time the left has won a majority of votes in a national election.

Walden Bello interviews the man behind Die Linke’s come-from-behind victory in the February 2025 Bundestag elections.

Ukraine is still resisting heroically Russia’s imperialist war of annexation, writes Fred Leplat.

Philipp Köncke looks at how the Chinese party-state overtook the West in the renewable energy market.

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