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Brazilians prepare for a momentous vote

Mass media as stepping stone—three talking heads who lie their way to political dominance

The SACP calls for working-class unity and “patriotic and left popular fronts” to challenge big business oligarchs, reverse their influence in the state apparatus and put South Africa on the road to economic, social and green transformations.

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

Chileans rekindle the torch of democracy, and a green wave ousts Australia’s Tories

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

Protests and a major conference of Latin American social movements mark the world’s workers’ own day

Economic collapse brings mass unrest in Sri Lanka, and social ferment brings a new kind of political leader in Colombia

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

The peace movement challenged as never before