- From Ukraine: No Mercy in a Multipolar World
- SACP Holds Left Unity Conference
- The Timorese Women’s Movement
- UK: Labour, Greens and Your Party
- BRICS Media and Anti-Imperialism
- Organizing Samsung
- Latin America Focus
- Spain Housing Protests
- China’s Workers
- Socialism and the Paris Commune
From Ukraine: No Mercy in a Multipolar World
Olena Tkalich and Oleksandr Kyselov / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Two Ukrainian socialists confront a Western anticapitalist left whose anti-imperialism has, in their view, become a politics of abandonment. Opposition to the West cannot substitute for emancipatory politics. In a multipolar world where weakness invites coercion, they argue, the left must learn to build power rather than simply denounce it in others.
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SACP Holds Left Unity Conference
Issues and Plans Manyane Manyane / Independent Online (Cape Town)
Declaration / Conference of the Left (Boksburg)
ANC Out, MKP In Thabi Shomolekae / Polity (Johannesburg)
Where are the Women? Vuyokazi (Vuvu) Made / Facebook
Future of Politics Simon Majadibodu / Independent Online
Crisis in SACP Lebohang Phanyeko / Cape Times (Cape Town)
No to Xenophobia / Central News (Bloemfontein)
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Muhammad Ammar Hidayahtulloh and Shelli Israelsen / New Mandala (Canberra)
Though gender equality has progressed over the 24 years since Timor-Leste’s independence, the legacy of the resistance against Indonesian occupation still poses challenges for the women’s movement: a patriarchal political scene, donor dependency, and deep intergenerational divides. Yet the fight against sexual and gender-based violence is renewing unity in feminist advocacy.
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UK: Labour, Greens and Your Party
Labour’s Crisis Jeremy Gilbert / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
Burnham: The Great Pink Hope Susan Press / Labour Hub (London)
Greens’ Progress Aaron Bastani / Novara Media (London)
Grassroots Left and The Many Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi / Amandla! (Cape Town)
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BRICS Media and Anti-Imperialism
Farooq Sulehria / Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (Liège)
The emergence of media powerhouses in the global South, such as India, Brazil, Turkey, and South Korea, has captivated media scholars, politicians, and the general public alike. But the media giants from the global South are neither an ally of the left nor an alternative to the imperial media.
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Organizing Samsung
Service Workers Myungkyo Hong / Asian Labour Review (Hong Kong)
AI Unions Kap Seol / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
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Latin America Focus
Colombia: First Round Adriaan Alsema / Colombia Reports (Medellín)
Argentina Eduardo Lucita and Israel Dutra / Links (Sydney)
Labor Win in Brazil Israel Dutra / Links
Bolivia Faig Mahmudov / News.az (Baku)
Peru Tony Wood / New Left Review (London)
Venezuela Luís Bonilla-Molina / Links
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John Collins / Weave News (Buffalo)
Leftist parties are working to build a unified strategy in advance of national elections in 2027, and the country’s most pressing issue — a lack of affordable housing — is poised to play a key role. On May 24, more than 20,000 people took to the streets of Madrid to denounce those who treat housing as an investment opportunity.
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Yueran Zhang / Phenomenal World (New York)
Increasingly unbearable levels of exploitation, precarity, and downward mobility have become pervasive in blue-collar and white-collar sectors alike. This has led to a notable surge of anti-capitalist sentiment in recent years, along with nostalgia for China’s socialist past, especially among students and young workers who never experienced it themselves.
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Socialism and the Paris Commune
Kevin Guillas-Cavan / CounterPunch (Petrolia CA)
Because the Commune is the only revolutionary experiment at the heart of capitalism, we must ask ourselves, without fetishism or discouragement, what can be learnt from it. The Commune must not become a dusty museum. It must be a laboratory—a place of concrete possibilities, fatal errors, and lessons that never grow old.
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