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Election news from the Philippines, Ireland, France, Slovenia... and Ukraine’s socialist heritage

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.

Political economy and new maps of power in 2022

Whose side are we on? That is the question that anyone professing a commitment to anti-imperialism should be asking, when a sovereign nation is invaded by a Great Power.

While the peace movement argues, trying to decide who’s right and who’s wrong, the American government is doubling down on militarism. The peace movement needs to unite in opposition to war; unfortunately it’s influence is diminished by infighting.

What the left is saying after a month of Russia/Ukraine war

The US with its NATO allies have not only provoked this tragedy but have sought to prolong it in their refusal to engage in negotiations for a ceasefire.

Condemning Putin’s war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.

Are we heading for Cold War II, World War III, or possibly even World War IV (the climate destruction of this planet)? The author explores what it's meant for humanity to have taken from the gods the ability to create Armageddon.

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