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Voters in Colombia and France put left coalitions in office, and Tunisian workers shut the country down

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

There are two lessons one can learn from the Sri Lankan experience. The first is that a welfare state is totally incompatible with a neo-liberal regime. The second is that every country is vulnerable to a “contingency crisis” under neo-liberalism.

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

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

Political economy and new maps of power in 2022

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

How the war is changing thinking on the international left

Here's looking at China, and reports from Chile, India, Sudan, France, Sri Lanka, and Denmark

The Peruvian transition, stirrings in Russia, budding dual power in India, and the South African Communist Party at 100