Nordic left

Bjarke Friborg

Bjarke Friborg (Red-Green Alliance, Denmark): ‘There is no contradiction between military support for Ukraine and criticising NATO and the arms industry’

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.
Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Store and his wife Marit Slagsvold vote in the 2025 General Election at Uranienborg School in Oslo.

Norway election: Labour narrowly holds on to power amid uncertainty

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
Parliament building Alþing, Althing Reykjavik.

Scratching the seven-year itch: Iceland votes to change government

Luke Field — Iceland’s November 30 elections saw the centre-left Social Democratic Alliance returned as the largest party for the first time since 2009, but no other left-leaning parties won any seats in what is a more consolidated and right-leaning parliament.
Le Pen Melenchon

The far right and radical left after the European and French elections

Pablo Stefanoni looks at the recent European and French elections — in which the former saw a strong showing for the far right while the latter resulted in a win for the broad left — and what it means for both sides.
olkets Klimamarch is held in Copenhagen before the upcoming EU Parliament elections on Sunday 2 June 2024.

More than just an electoral upwind? Nordic left-wing parties after the EU elections

Record results for (Centre-)Left parties in the Nordic countries, with far-right parties losing ground. Ada Regelmann gives a sober assessment of the European elections results in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Sweden Left Party

Sweden’s Left Party celebrates its biggest win in 20 year

John Hörnquist — After winning over 11 percent of the vote in June’s European Parliament elections, the Swedish Left Party Vänsterpartiet is celebrating its best election results in twenty years.

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Ecosocialism 2025

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