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News and analysis on left parties and social movements around the world

Apocalypse is the new normal

Violence and defiance in Palestine, the return of Austro-Marxism, and more reports and analysis from five continents

Paul Robeson - African American singer, movie star, Broadway actor, freedom fighter and socialist -built his singing career in the teeth of racism in the early 1900s. But his radicalism was spurred on in Britain - by a chance meeting with a group of Welsh miners.