Portside

News and analysis from, and about, left social movements and parties around the world

The fire in a Johannesburg building killing 73 people is the result of decades of disastrous housing policies and the criminalization of poverty in South Africa.

Sorting through BRICS, Guatemala joins the Pink Tide, Islamophobia divides the French left, and more

News and analysis about and from movements and parties around the world

Reports on women in action in Bulgaria and El Salvador, the election drama in Ecuador, the coup in Niger, and more

Changing the world — because it needs it

The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring Israel is "not a racist or apartheid state." The final vote was 412-9. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress, declared: “Congress supported South African apartheid...”

Repression breeds resistance in the West Bank, Guatemala, France and Myanmar

“Earth or Death!”  — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)

What Russian leftists have to say about the almost coup