On October 1, the Pakistani government gave an ultimatum to an estimated 1.7 million Afghan refugees, many of whom have fled persecution at the hands of Taliban, to leave its borders within a month. Read more...

Far right populist and fascist groups are mounting a widespread offensive across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, using anti-immigrant racism and anti-trans bigotry as their calling cards. Read more...

PERU HAS been plunged into a deep crisis after leftist president Pedro Castillo was deposed in a parliamentary coup on 7 December. Read more...

Thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace in the federal capital Brasilia on 8 January. Read more...

On 7 December, the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office mobilised 3,000 police officers and special forces in the largest anti-terrorist operation in the history of the Federal Republic. Read more...

The result of the 2022 election represents more than just a parliamentary victory for the right. Sweden will now have a government focused on militant class struggle from above. Read more...

Against the run of the country’s opinion polls, which showed Lula da Silva might win outright in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 2, the result was 47.9 percent for Lula an Read more...

France has had a long season of elections. It started last autumn with the presidential campaign, including primaries in the major parties, that generated a xenophobic, anti-migrant climate. Read more...

The second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April saw Emmanuel Macron, an arrogant neoliberal ‘reformer’, returned to the Elysée for a second term. Read more...

The winner of the presidential election in France is effectively a foregone conclusion. Read more...

Anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Desmond Tutu died after a long battle with cancer on Boxing Day, aged 90. Read more...

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The horrific scenes of families, including young children, starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe. Read more...

Massive controversy has followed the 19 November acquittal of rightwing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in the US. Read more...

After a year of courageous struggle, Indian farmers have humbled India’s “strongman" Narendra Modi. Modi had to broadcast to the nation that he intended to repeal the neoliberal agricultural laws. Read more...

In the latest tragedy in the English Channel, at least 27 refugees, including five women and a young girl, drowned when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the icy waters. Read more...

ON THE border between Belarus and its EU neighbours; Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, refugees from the global south are once again being used as pawns in a vicious inter-state power struggle. Read more...

For many decades, Chile was one of the favourite countries of Wall Street & Co. The country was considered a model for neoliberalism's "way to the top". Read more...

Every Saturday, from mid-July to the end of August, about 200,000 people protested in France against the introduction of a health pass. Read more...

With some 250,000 valid signatures, the campaign "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co." (DWE - Expropriate "German Homes and Co") achieved the best result ever for a Berlin referendum in June. Read more...

The second round of Peru's presidential elections was held on 6 June. Read more...

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On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...

April 11, 2021 saw the murder at a traffic stop of Daunte Wright, aged 20, by police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Police allege that Mr. Read more...

IN the year since the murder of George Floyd, the harsh reality of the racism still experienced by African Americans, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and half a century since the civil rights Read more...

Recently, the new Viennese party LINKS (left in German) held its annual conference. Read more...

Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...

In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...

On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...