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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.

  • A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli military vehicles, during a large scale military training in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank

    Zionist pogroms and shepherding outposts in the West Bank

    In the second of our Breaking the Sword dispatches from the West Bank, Farah, Calico and Noah report on the Israeli practice of establishing Shepherding Outposts as an instrument for grabbing Palestinian land

  • Two men – Raúl Castro, Marco Rubio – in front of a 1962 map, against a red background

    Cuba stands firm

    Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe

  • A theatrical scene sees a woman in black surrounded by a group wearing red, with white faces

    Theatre and political transformations in Brazil

    Luke Lewin Davies and Jenny Futuro speak to São Paulo-based playwright Filipe Pereira on the challenges of left theatre-making in Brazil’s evolving political landscape

  • Children in a classroom stand with hands on their hearts

    Teaching in and against the state

    Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray. First, we must address educators’ complicity with state racism and violence

  • A black and white photograph of Groote Schuur, the country estate of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa

    Cape Fever – review

    Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

  • A b&w photo of a person standing to give evidence and a wide shot of a more modern tribunal setting

    Key Words: Peoples’ Tribunals

    Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

  • A black and white photograph of Andrée Blouin

    My Country: Africa – review

    Andrée Blouin’s autobiography, whilst messy at points, charts a clear history of resistance to colonial oppression, writes Olivia Umuerwa Rutazibwa