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Walden Bello on the Philippines election, Lula picks a running mate, and news on the left in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Russia and more

Reader Comments: Abortion; Trickle Down Economics; Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine; French Left-Wing Bloc; Kathy Boudin; State of Working America; lots of announcements; more....

Election news from the Philippines, Ireland, France, Slovenia... and Ukraine’s socialist heritage

We will never achieve a world without war by nonresistance to imperialist intervention. If the left does not take the correct stance on this war, it will discredit and marginalize itself. And we will have to work for a long time to overcome the consequences of this nonsense.

The decades of efforts by people on all continents to ease tensions between the three greatest powers, to work for a friendlier, ecologically improving world of peace has been set back for years, perhaps for decades. We need an anti-fascist, anti-militarist voice for people’s rights.

Protests and a major conference of Latin American social movements mark the world’s workers’ own day

Men under 65 are spending their days in hiding, leaving wives and sisters to take over their jobs

Why does the anti-war movement in Russia have a female face? To answer this question, we need to turn to the development of Russian feminism over the past ten years. Feminism in Russia has gone through a rebirth.

Reader comments: War in Ukraine and the Crisis of the Left and more. Announcements: Books, Films, Events.

History suggests the West's sanctions on Russia will only hurt vulnerable people. Movements offer a better approach to economic penalties.