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Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

  • UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, with a fighter jet in the background

    Warfare’s waste is welfare’s loss

    Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services

  • In a football stadium crowd, three strips of banner read: UEFA is complicit in genocide by normalising Israel kick them out now

    No neutral ground: sport is political in Israel’s war on Gaza

    Nicola De Martini Ugolotti and Max Mauro report on the movement to ban Israel from international sports – and to interrupt projections of normalcy as genocide unfolds in Gaza

  • The TWT logo in black and white print with arrows and read dots

    The World Transformed: giving history a push

    TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose

  • Former Bolivian President Evo Morales stood at a microphone, wearing a white shirt and black jacket. A woman in traditional Bolivian dress stands to his right

    No MAS: the Bolivian left faces up to defeat

    Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report

  • Democratic Primary nominee Zohran Mamdani speaking at a Resist fascism rally, with a crowd of people holding signs behind him

    Lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign

    Mamdani’s impressive Democratic primary victory is a source of hope for transformative politics in NYC and the wider US, writes Dillon Delaune – one of 50,000 supporters who canvassed for his campaign

  • Two members of the Unite union holding a banner bearing the colours of the Palestinian flag an dreading 'in solidarity with Palestine London & Eastern region'

    The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

    Union members have won a long internal struggle for meaningful action against UK arm sales to Israel. Raymond Morell was one of them – and reports from behind the scenes

  • Displaced Gazans walking with their backs turned to the camera and carrying their possessions surrounded by rubble and destroyed buildings on either side of the road they are walking on

    Dispatches from Gaza: ceasefire cycles

    As talks of a ceasefire rise and fade from the headlines, Shaimaa Eid speaks to people living in Gaza City – documenting the meaning of ‘truce’ as felt on the ground

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