- Changes in Capitalism: A South African View
- Left Summit in Indonesia
- Greece: Another Europe Wasn’t Possible
- A Saga of Peasant Resistance in India
- Postal Workers Strike in Canada
- Portuguese Left Bloc Leader on German Linke
- Panama Fights for Freedom
- Russian Political Prisoners’ Appeal
- Antimilitarism in Oz
- An Overview of Left Politics in Ukraine
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Changes in Capitalism: A South African View
Zaki Mamdoo / Amandla! (Cape Town)
The colonial and apartheid labour regimes in South Africa created a racialised and gendered reserve army of cheap black labour, used and discarded at will. Post-apartheid, that structure has not been dismantled. It has simply been brought under new management. Importantly, however, as capitalism evolves into its current parasitic and crisis-ridden stage, the terrain of accumulation has shifted.
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Left Summit in Indonesia
Arah Juang / Indoleft
On March 23 a fast breaking gathering and discussion was held on “The International and National Situation”. The event was initiated by the Socialist Union (Perserikatan Sosialis, PS) and the People’s Liberation Party (Partai Pembebasan Rakyat, PPR). The PS and PPR recognise the need for a space where left-wing organisations and groups can meet, discuss and debate a wide range of issues.
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Greece: Another Europe Wasn’t Possible
Boris Kanzleiter / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
What options and alternatives were actually available to the Greek Left in the summer of 2015 calls for a proper historicization. The Troika’s austerity brutally halted the upsurge of protest movements and mercilessly enforced the logic of capital utilization and budgetary discipline. Now, the debt brake is being suspended to facilitate increased military spending.
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A Saga of Peasant Resistance in India
Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
A nearly 1,200 days-long resistance by farmers forced the government of the south Indian state of Karnataka to retreat from their plan to grab 1,777 acres of fertile, multi-cropped farmland across 13 villages. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah acknowledged that “writers, artists, communist party, people’s movements” and the oppressed Dalit castes had all struggled alongside the resisting farmers.
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Postal Workers Strike in Canada
André Frappier / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is on the front lines of a critical struggle. In the face of the Carney government’s aggressive actions, we cannot allow the union to stand alone. It’s up to us to organize and support actions and demonstrations to create a united front across Canada and Québec that can defeat the anti-labour offensive.
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Portuguese Left Bloc Leader on German Linke
Catarina Martins / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Catarina Martins, MEP and former coordinator of Portugal’s Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc, a radical left party that emerged from Trotskyist and Maoist traditions in 1999) examines the recent trajectory of Germany’s Die Linke (The Left), drawing lessons for Portugal’s own political landscape.
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Panama Fights for Freedom
Owen Schalk / NACLA Report (New York)
Since early 2025, Panamanian social movements have mobilized to protest the neoliberal economic agenda and pro-U.S. foreign policy of their president, José Raúl Mulino. Panama’s authorities have responded by arresting thousands, killing several protestors, and in the Bocas del Toro province, suspending constitutional rights like freedom of assembly and arrest warrants.
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Russian Political Prisoners’ Appeal
Mark Trevelyan / Reuters (London)
Eleven jailed Russian dissidents have written to world leaders appealing for a mass release of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilians held by Russia - some 10,000 people in total, they say - as part of any peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. The dissidents said that thousands of Ukrainian civilian "hostages" were being held by Russia, mostly in Russian-held areas of Ukraine.
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Antimilitarism in Oz
Alexander Brown / Links (Sydney)
The anti-windfarm campaign showed how a fragmented and intensely atomised proletariat could be manipulated to support right-wing populism. Nevertheless, solidarity with Palestinians has broadened Wollongong’s anti-militarist movement beyond the more traditional red-green alliance.
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An Overview of Left Politics in Ukraine
Juliane Nagel / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Ukraine’s small but determined left-wing movements continue organising for workers’ rights, healthcare reform, and social justice under extraordinary circumstances. From trade unions operating under martial law to queer-feminist collectives challenging militarisation, these voices offer crucial insights for European leftists.
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