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News and analysis from movements and parties in every region

Strikes, strife, strategies and solidarity

Jayati Ghosh and João Pedro Stedile on the fierce urgency of now

Economic collapse and mass action finished off the Sri Lanka regime.

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