Information is power. Our mission at Portside is to seek out and to provide information that empowers you -- that empowers the left. Every day we search hundreds of sources to connect you with the most interesting, striking and useful material. Just once a year we appeal to you to contribute to make it possible to continue this work. Please help.
Remembering Patrice Lumumba, Marielle Franco and Chico Mendes, and news of new year struggles in four continents
A year of agony and uproar
How France responded when a right to post was taken away. Holiday gift scams, Substack, the Huawei war, and more.
Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.
A week of furious street battles, and rethinking feminism, decolonialism and indigenous rights
The world awaits post-Trump shifts * French groups defy terror and Islamophobia * Who took down Golden Dawn?
Trump’s appeal in Miami and Brooklyn, and election reflections from Thomas Frank and Henry Giroux
Perspectives on left politics from Chile, UK and Germany, and reports from Mexico, Hong Kong, France, Bolivia, India and Kenya
A gripping biography of the leader of the slave revolt that led to Haiti’s independence, described as ‘the first black superhero of the modern age, the work under review promises to be the definitive study of the epocal revolutionary figure.
What Russian Left Parties Say About Belarus, and reports from Brazil, Sudan, London, Kenya, India, France and Morocco
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