Global politics
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.
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Sri Lanka: Trouble in paradise
Jeana De Zoysa reports from the frontlines of the revolution that has emerged from Sri Lanka’s political and economic crises
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How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms
Drawing on his observations of Gorbachev, Jonathan Steele details how Western interests and Yeltsin’s ambition undermined his strategy for gradual reform
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Uncommon Wealth – review
Kojo Koram’s book cuts through tabloid headlines to examine the material legacy of colonialism: extreme wealth for an elite few; poverty for the rest. By Leah Cowan
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Why did Chile’s new constitution fail?
Chile’s proposed constitution was poorly understood amid a wave of misinformation and hostility from the reject campaign, Carole Concha Bell reports
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Bankrolling violence: financial markets and the military industrial complex
The financial system makes most of us are complicit in the ongoing military machine and profit from imperial wars, whether we like it or not, writes Keval Bharadia
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The war racket: the military industrial complex’s grip on political and economic life
Paul Rogers critiques the extensive network of politicians, corporations and institutions that keep the military at the front and centre of our politics
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Listen to local voices, not the US or China, on Taiwan
Brian Hioe looks at the tensions and misunderstandings surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s visit and how Western leftists routinely ignore local demands from Taiwan
