Mass protests against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko are entering their fourth month. After several weeks of toying with a softer image, the state is ramping up repression. Siarhei Biareishyk is a Visiting […]
Siarhei Biareishyk: 100 days of revolution in Belarus
Valerio Arcary: Socialist Boulos stuns São Paulo, runoff set for Latin America’s largest city
Valerio Arcary explains how the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL) ticket headed by Homeless Workers Movement leader Guilherme Boulos and his running mate, historic feminist and leftist leader Luiza Erundina, stunned […]
Nicole Kleinheisterkamp González and Tamara Ortega Uribe: Chile after the plebiscite, part 1 – Pinochet’s Constitution.
Over the last half century, Chile has run the gamut from one of the world most original experiments in popular democracy and grassroots socialism during the government of Salvador Allende to the […]
Valerio Arcary: Send the socialists into second round in São Paulo’s elections
On Sunday, November 15, millions of Brazilians will take to the polls in municipal elections across the country. Coming just days after Donald Trump’s defeat in the United States, all eyes will […]
Valerio Arcary: Trump out, Bolsonaro next? Insights from the U.S. elections
Valerio Arcary is the author of several books including O Martelo de História (History’s Hammer) and a leader in the Resistência current of the Party for Socialism and Freedom in Brazil. This commentary was first […]
Michael Löwy: Lukacs on Hölderlin. There is no greatness in Stalinism, a response to Zizek
In this article, Michael Löwy defends the original Marxist project against the pro-Stalinist criticisms of the Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek Michael Löwy is director of research at the Centre National pour la […]
To Chi-kuen and Promise Li: “We just had the heart to fight the boss,” a Hong Kong leftist’s story
Interviewer’s note: Hong Kong’s protest movement has seen a major setback with the introduction of the National Security Laws in July. In this atmosphere, continuing to archive, analyze, and humanize the political choices protestors made […]
Esquerda Online: An anticapitalist LGBTQIA+ program for Brazil’s municipal elections
November 15 and 29 will see two rounds of municipal elections across Brazil and will provide a snapshot of the strength of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration alongside the centrist and left-wing […]
Pierre Rousset: Democratic movement attacks the established order in Thailand
Pierre Rousset is a member of the Fourth International particularly involved in solidarity with Asia as well as a member of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France. This article was originally […]
Siarhei Biareishyk: assessing the dynamics of mass protests in Belarus
Though overshadowed by the U.S. elections, mass protests against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko are entering their fourth month. The dictator is playing for time, while international powers who care little for democracy are attempting […]
