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

Good news, bad news as elections reconfigure world politics

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.

The so-called Zeitenwende is Germany’s biggest rearmament since World War II and makes its military budget the third largest in the world.

How the war is changing thinking on the international left

The war continues — as the fight for democracy and equality deepens and broadens

Technocrats and far rightists on the move

While Germans may not be much more interested in Ukraine than Americans, their grandparents told them enough about that last big war to keep a majority from wanting to risk another one.

In reference to the cynical Nazi slogan Arbeit Macht Frei – Work Makes You Free that the SS had placed at the entrance of Auschwitz, Germany’s present-day anti-vaxxers use the slogan, Vaccinating Makes You Free – in German: Impfen Macht Frei.

Jamshid Ahmadi talks to Left MP Sevim Dagdelen about the disastrous showing for the party in the German federal elections in September and what lessons can be drawn.