Portside

News and analysis on left parties and social movements around the world

A week of mass upsurge and states in transition

Yes, this Communist politician in Graz, Austria, wants to redistribute wealth, but a focus on housing, her own modest lifestyle and a hard childhood have helped her popularity.

What the climate movement can learn from the anti-Apartheid movement. The anti-Semitism question. And HAPPY 90th Archbishop Desmond Tutu!

Long takes on Iran and Haiti, and the drive for popular democracy in Africa