- Power, Populism and the Global Left
- The Great Solidarity Movement of 2024
- More Analysis on South Korea
- Palestinian Women at a Crossroads
- Nigeria: People Don’t Need a Hero Complex
- Extinction Rebellion’s Direct Action
- India in Fast Motion
- Post Election Ireland
- How Workers Defended Bolivian Socialists
- 70 Years of Le Monde diplomatique
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Power, Populism and the Global Left
Cihan Tugal / LeftEast
Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. This article will first describe three thwarted strategies (new social movements, anarchist-autonomist uprisings, and populism) and conclude with the latest searches these blockages have led to.
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The Great Solidarity Movement of 2024
Conor Tomás Reed / NACLA Report (New York)
This roundtable conversation brings together report-backs from university solidarity encampments in Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a broader horizon of struggles for Palestine.
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More Analysis on South Korea
Hyun Ok Park / positions politics (Durham)
The direction of the South Korean future is not yet determined. That’s why we need to talk about the tripartite crises of liberal democracy, capitalism, and leftist politics (with a promissory note), in which the candlelight protest has become a new normal. Assessing these crises and asking where and how this repeated cycle of politics can be broken is key to charting a new path forward.
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Palestinian Women at a Crossroads
Nafiseh Ghafournia / Green Left (Sydney)
The fight for Palestinian women’s liberation is deeply intertwined with the fight for global justice. As we call for global feminist solidarity, we must recognise that the struggle of Palestinian women against gender-based violence is intricately linked to their resistance against occupation and systemic oppression.
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Nigeria: People Don’t Need a Hero Complex
Omole Ibukun / Africa is a Country (New York)
The intentional chorus of “leaderlessness” that emerged during #EndSARS was because the Nigerian masses were experimenting with ideas that could make their resistance movement far more difficult to infiltrate, coerce, or dismantle—a goal that the Nigerian ruling class has historically strived for.
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Extinction Rebellion’s Direct Action
The Canary (London)
On Wednesday 4 December, Extinction Rebellion activists occupied the City of London offices of A&O Shearman – whose lawyers facilitated more than $285 billion in fossil fuel transactions between 2019 and 2023, the second highest amount for any legal firm in the world – demanding they ‘Cut The Ties With Fossil Fuels’.
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India in Fast Motion
• Where the Left is At Raju J Das / Links (Sydney)
• Election Outcome Dipankar Bhattacharya / Links
• Farmer Protests Murali Krishnan / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
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Post Election Ireland
Daniel Finn / New Left Review (London)
This time last year, Sinn Féin still seemed on course to surpass its conservative rivals, the incumbent coalition partners Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, by a wide margin. After a sharp drop in the polls since the beginning of the year, Sinn Féin was forced to scale back its ambitions, hoping simply to maintain its position from 2020.
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How Workers Defended Bolivian Socialists
Olivia Arigho Stiles / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
After the Bolivian ultraright launched a coup in 2019, a mass movement restored the country’s socialist government — proof that it isn’t elites that protect democracy but organized workers.
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70 Years of Le Monde diplomatique
Le Monde diplomatique (Paris)
Unlike many media organisations, the ‘Diplo’ decided not to treat ‘third world’ countries simply as actors on a geopolitical chessboard, but to cover them as equal societies, with their own internal political games, culture and social and intellectual movements.
