Portside

Reports and analyses from the world left's hot spots

The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy as a strategic goal

Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.

We need to be far more generous with each other, able to hold conversations without resort to insults and abuses. Out of disagreement comes understanding. But out of malicious slander only comes disorientation.

Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.

Africa and neocolonialism, division in Die Linke, focus on Myanmar's fight for democracy, and more

Voters in Colombia and France put left coalitions in office, and Tunisian workers shut the country down

It’s the rising left against ‘Colombia's Trump’ in a presidential runoff, and social storm watches from around Africa

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.