Today, 7 November, marks the 108th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It is also known as the ‘October revolution’ because the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd on October 25, 1917, according to the Julian calendar […]
The anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and far-right party of Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom (PVV), suffered a severe blow in Dutch parliamentary elections on the 29th of October, falling back from 37 to 26 seats. Left parties failed […]
The declaration for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana began with a bang, with 800,000 signing up in support. Since then, of course, public divisions at the top have dampened some […]
“As things stand, there are enough bubbles that are set to burst within a year. When they do burst they will cause significant economic disruption. The fallout won’t lead to a 1929-style crisis, and it […]
Javier Milei, Argentina’s right wing ‘libertarian’ president won the country’s 2025 midterm elections, significantly strengthening his political position and ability to push forward with his reactionary economic policies. Hugo Rodriguez and Pedro Albornoz look at […]
In the new Romania of acute austerity, the government seems overwhelmed by inner division while locked in a conflict with the judiciary. At the same time, important student struggles have taken place, with mixed results. […]
There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-WW2 decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is […]
Catherine Connolly has won the 2025 Irish presidential election in a landslide victory. Her candidacy was supported by left and social democratic parties, the Greens and by Sinn Fein. Connolly secured 63.36% of the vote. […]
Yesterday a judge in Belfast gave a ‘not guilty’ verdict regarding ‘Soldier F’, a former parachute regiment solider who was accused of the murder of two civilians in Derry city, on January 30th 1972, in […]
This year has seen France plunged into one of the most serious political and social crises since the founding of the 5th Republic by Charles De Gaulle in 1958, when a ‘soft’ coup installed the […]
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