- Ukraine: Notes on How to Survive a War
- Women and the Struggle Outside the Workplace
- South Africa Present and Past
- Sri Lanka: First Year of the Left in Charge
- Historic Serbia Protests
- The Chilean Election
- Copenhagen: Green Left Outpolls Social Democrats
- Haiti’s Victory at Vertières, 1803
- India: Maoists in Retreat
- Canada’s New Democrats
__________Ukraine: Notes on How to Survive a War
Aman Sethi / openDemocracy (London)
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, philosophers, poets, anarchists and soldiers contemplate what they have lost, and what is still to emerge.
__________Women and the Struggle Outside the Workplace
Jess Spear / Rupture (Dublin)
The biggest social movement in Ireland in the last decade was the anti-water charges movement. Working-class women, many of them stay-at-home mothers, physically blocked the installation of water meters and helped to organise and rally their communities to boycott the tax. This is just one example of how working-class struggle takes place in many deindustrialised, wealthy countries today.
__________South Africa Present and Past
• Video: Women ‘Shut Down’ G20 / APT
• Liberation Betrayed Andile Zulu / Amandla! (Cape Town)
• Remembering Govan Mbeki Colin Bundy / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
__________Sri Lanka: First Year of the Left in Charge
Janaka Biyanwila / Polity (Colombo)
The National People’s Power (NPP) in Sri Lanka achieved a significant two-thirds parliamentary majority in the November 2024 elections, the largest single-party majority since 1977. The NPP’s meteoric rise from a marginal ‘third force’ to the party of government emerged from a division among the elites that was triggered by the 2022 popular uprising, the Aragalaya.
__________Historic Serbia Protests
• Thousands March in Belgrade / Associated Press (New York)
• How Students Kept It Going Vladimir Simović / transform! Europe (Vienna)
__________The Chilean Election
• Between Fear and Promise Soumya Sahin / Z (Hull MA)
• Women Save the Communist Party Phineas Rueckert / NACLA (New York)
__________Copenhagen: Green Left Outpolls Social Democrats
Cas Mudde / The Guardian (London)
After more than 100 years, Copenhagen no longer has a Social Democrat mayor. Sisse Marie Welling, the new lord mayor, represents neither the mainstream right nor the far right but the Green Left (Socialistisk Folkeparti, known as SF). This should be a major wake-up call for centre-left parties across Europe.
__________Haiti’s Victory at Vertières, 1803
Guillermo R Barreto / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Today, when US imperial arrogance threatens the entire continent with its military power, we must remember that powerful imperial armies have been defeated time and again by the Caribbean peoples. The Battle of Vertières is a historical milestone that has been rendered invisible by hegemonic historiography.
__________India: Maoists in Retreat
I.V. Ramana Rao / The Wire (New Delhi)
The recent surrenders of senior Maoist leaders Mallojula Venugopal and Aasanna have provoked a complex debate about the political meaning of capitulation. The government branded Maoism as a law and order problem; its efforts are a new phase in the counterinsurgency campaign – and a turning point in the dialectic of revolutionary politics.
__________Canada’s New Democrats
David Moscrop and Edgardo Sepulveda / Jacobin
The leadership race in Canada’s New Democratic Party has exposed fractures between workers and professionals and between leader-driven branding and party democracy. Its survival as a serious left-wing force depends on successfully navigating these divides.
