President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking to supporters following his victory in the 2022 Brazilian general election (Credit: Ricardo Stuckert) References to a Latin American left should come accompanied with an asterisk, as left-wing governments and movements...
From left to right: Alexandra Kollontai, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lyudmila Pavlichenko If the names Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Alexandra Kollontai, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Inessa Armand and Elena Lagadinova are unfamiliar to you, Kristen Ghodsee’s new book will provide an...
‘Democracia Real YA’ demonstration in Madrid on May 15, 2011. Photo by Olmo Calvo (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0) Giorgos Venizelos: More than 10 years have passed since the so-called movements of the squares were first observed. Their proliferation in...
EndSARS protestors in 2020. Photo credit: TobiJamesCandids On 4 October 2020, footage surfaced on social media showing officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) dragging two unarmed men from a hotel in Ughelli Delta state and shooting one dead outside. That...
Industrial militancy is (at least briefly) back in fashion and for many trade union members this will be their first time living, and participating, in a sustained period of industrial strife. However, the long-term efficacy of militancy as a knee-jerk reaction to...
Celebrations of the centenary since his birth on 31 August 1921 have cemented the resurgence in interest in Raymond Williams (1921-1988), one of the Twentieth Century’s leading thinkers on the left. On 15 October, in partnership with the Raymond Williams Foundation, I...
A Sivanandan speaks at the IRR emergency general meeting in April 1972 (Image courtesy of the IRR) On a balmy evening on 18 April 1972, a somewhat incongruous group of people entered the basement hall of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, for a meeting that would have...
Gustavo Petro gestures to the crowd at the presidential inauguration on 6 August, 2022. Photo by Daniela Díaz Rangel The government of Gustavo Petro and his vice president, Francia Márquez, began with a bang. The duo was sworn in on 6 August, 2022 amid a diverse crowd...
Industrial militancy is (at least briefly) back in fashion and for many trade union members this will be their first time living, and participating, in a sustained period of industrial strife. However, the long-term efficacy of militancy as a knee-jerk reaction to...
Celebrations of the centenary since his birth on 31 August 1921 have cemented the resurgence in interest in Raymond Williams (1921-1988), one of the Twentieth Century’s leading thinkers on the left. On 15 October, in partnership with the Raymond Williams Foundation, I...
I often wonder if Keir Starmer has a humiliation kink: whether he draws joy or pleasure from what one can only imagine is the sheer weight of humiliation and shame that must push itself down on his chest with every waking breath. It is, one might reasonably argue, the...
Anti-government protestors in front of the Presidential Secretariat in Sri Lanka on 13 April 2022. Photo by AntanO (Wikimedia Commons) Sri Lanka, the ultimate island travel destination, has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. We are in the middle of our...