3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (262+ words) The decisive factor was a massive campaign by influential civil-society organisations which had called for tactical voting, so as to ensure that the SPD and the Greens got back into the Landtag at all. That had been in the balance…...

6+ day, 13+ min ago   (341+ words) Fascism at the gates? – Ahead of the 2026 state elections After the results of the Saxony-Anhalt elections on 6 September the discussion on perspectives for the German left is even more important. Only a few days now until the Landtag elections in…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1522+ words) Ian Parker: We suggested ’creeping fascism’ as a topic partly because of where Britain is. Fascism seems to be knocking on the door here, with Reform UK and the rest of it, and the implication was that Turkey might have…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1754+ words) IVAN DRURY ZARIN conducted this interview for Against the Current with Mikhail Lobanov, Russian democratic socialist politician in exile and one of the organizers of Radical Democracy, at the international anti-fascist conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil in March 2026. [1] Unbowed, Lobanov,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (367+ words) In Gaza as in the West Bank, the situation has been catastrophic throughout the summer. As elections begin in Israel and Palestine, the challenge remains for us to relaunch mobilization and international solidarity. Yet the bombing continued, maintaining a horrific…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (471+ words) On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan. We were always convinced that the “ice age” in the USSR would not last forever, because…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1103+ words) Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Serbia and the main war criminal, was also eventually arrested, sent for trial and imprisoned in the Hague where he died in 2006. His deputy and head of the modern day fascist Cetniks, Vojislav Seselj, is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) Whether these electoral victories and the accompanying change in consciousness in the country can contribute to the kind of massive labor and social movement that might propel real social change remains to be seen. Dan La Botz was a founding…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (599+ words) In that speech, you said that the left’s mistake was to insist on distinguishing between proletarian democracy and bourgeois democracy, when there was only one kind of democracy: one in which power was determined by the votes of the citizens....

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (184+ words) Kunal Chattopadhyay is a member of Radical Socialist, India and Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. Once again, we face a summer plagued by fire. Tens of thousands of hectares, earlier than in any other year, have already burned,…...