We mourn the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. She was not the first, many a woman before her died silently. 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...

The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. 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...

For months now, Pakistan's people have suffered under one of the most severe floods ever recorded. Read more...

As expected, Giorgia Meloni and her ultra-reactionary Fratelli d'Italia party emerged victorious in the September 25 election. She will therefore be at the head of the next government. Read more...

The Brazilian economy has been in crisis for almost a decade. This formerly "emerging market" is plagued by stagnation, inflation, and unemployment. Read more...

At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Read more...

In Pakistan, floods started in June and peaked in mid-August leaving almost 1500 people dead even according to official figures, which are likely to be an underestimation. Read more...

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
Freedom to be who I want Read more...

Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

The election campaign is now entering its feverish final stages. Read more...

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

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In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

Somalia, as well as parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya, is once again facing severe famine because of extreme and worsening drought in the Horn of Africa. Read more...

According to official estimates, the floods hitting Pakistan have already led to over 1000 deaths, the final figure is likely to be very much higher. Read more...

Having replaced Gotabaya Rajapaksa as President, Ranil Wickremesinghe has unleashed a wave of repression against the mass movement that forced Rajapaksa from office. Read more...

For some years, the "modernisation" of the Danish Social Democrats, under its leader Mette Frederiksen, has been hailed as something of a model for European social democracy. Read more...

Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...

In March and April, the Russian army stood at the gates of Kyiv, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine stalled. A few weeks later, Russia had to withdraw from the area around the capital. Read more...

Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...

August 4, the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, might not seem an auspicious date for China to mobilise its forces to surround Taiwan. Read more...

On July 21, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned for the second time in one week, after key parts of his national unity coalition; the populist Five Star Movement, M5S, Matteo Salvini’s far- Read more...

On the weekend of 25/26 June, the G7 met at Schloss Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen under the banner of the Ukraine war and the economic crisis. Read more...

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. 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...

Sri Lanka's huge protest movement has finally forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. Read more...

Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, but not yet as prime minister. Read more...

NATO leaders celebrated in the midst of war. They themselves present the conference on 28 and 29 June as a "historic summit" with an "undoubted message". Read more...

The victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez in the elections for president and vice president in Colombia, was greeted with rejoicing on the streets of the capital and other cities. Read more...