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European insights – Who votes for the left, and why?

Bernd Gehrke is critical of those in the peace movement and left who dismissed the threat of invasion coming from Russia - a failure to understand the genesis of today’s Russian capitalism and its emergence from Soviet-era party bureaucracy.

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

An in-depth analysis of the Peru uprising, and updates from Europe, Myanmar and more

Those now promoting the path to war with ever more, ever heavier weapons, sparing no thought for the costs, are the expression of a veritably apocalyptic mood in our society which no longer believes in real social progress

Parties and movements in transition

The Greens are a moderate, centrist party, reluctant to pander to any eruption of social conflict and more than cautious in its dealings with big business interests.

News and analysis from movements and parties in every region

The recent coup attempt may have seemed farcical, but the growing Nazi threat in Germany is very real,

The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others,