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LGBTQ in Africa, Ecuador ablaze, and talk of stalemate in Myanmar

But if the war does not end soon, its dangers will increase. Negotiations need to begin... “To make concessions to Russia would be submitting to aggression,”... “To make none would be submitting to insanity.”

Opposition to U.S. adventurism is principled. But this is Putin’s adventurism, and the left must stand firmly against it....Supporting the defense of Ukraine is the right thing for the global left to do. Even if our own government is doing it.

Reader Comments: Uvalde Murders; Democracy, Judiciary, Abortion, Voting Rights, Gun Control, Supreme Court Expansion; Ameericas Summit; Ukraine War; Socialism in Our Time - International Conference; more ....

It’s the rising left against ‘Colombia's Trump’ in a presidential runoff, and social storm watches from around Africa

Millions for misinformation, and the death toll for journalists

Walden Bello on the Philippines election, Lula picks a running mate, and news on the left in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Russia and more

Reader Comments: Abortion; Trickle Down Economics; Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine; French Left-Wing Bloc; Kathy Boudin; State of Working America; lots of announcements; more....

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

We will never achieve a world without war by nonresistance to imperialist intervention. If the left does not take the correct stance on this war, it will discredit and marginalize itself. And we will have to work for a long time to overcome the consequences of this nonsense.