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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.

  • After the ‘Arab Spring’

    Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad

  • Political blackness and Palestinian solidarity

    Political blackness and Palestinian solidarity

    The question of Palestine has become a black political litmus test, argues Annie Olaloku-Teriba, defining the very nature of black identity and politics

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is one of many high profile politicians who gained notoriety through comedy (Credit: Mykhaylo Markiv/The Presidential Administration of Ukraine)

    The rise of comedian politicians

    As more and more comedians find success in the political arena, Rhian Jones lists some of the most prominent examples of satirists turned statesmen

  • Muslim women protestors sat together at Shaheen Bagh protest camp in March 2020

    Shaheen Bagh lives on

    The women of a south Delhi neighbourhood have inspired a protest movement which will long outlive their temporary encampment, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

  • Ismail Abusalama, with a moustache, wears an orange shirt and stands against a striped background in prison

    My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner

    Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail’s experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms

  • The halls of Trinity College Dublin (Photo: Ben Guerin)

    Gender, class and cliché in Normal People

    The BBC hit drama shows the complexities of class mobility, but can’t avoid class and gender stereotypes, says Frances Hatherley

  • In a still from the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare, a many holds a large gun up in his sights against a smoky background

    The spoils of playing war

    Video games play a key role in sustaining the global military-industrial complex, writes Marzena Zukowska

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