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Ireland today: interview with Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

Pat Stack talks to Derry based socialists Goretti Horgan and Eamonn McCann

The French far right pushed back – for now

Ian Birchall assesses the results of the second round of France’s parliamentary elections, celebrating a defeat for the far right and assessing the problems and opportunities ahead.

Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left

Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left

The Popular Front then and now – France and the elections

Ian Birchall looks back at the history of the original Popular Front and outlines what’s at stake in France’s general election.

Review | The Vote

Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.

Setback for Modi in India’s elections

Narendra Modi’s right-wing government suffered a severe setback in the recent elections in India. Tanroop Sandhu looks at the reasons for this reverse, in an edited version of a talk delivered to East London rs21.

South Africa: the beginning of the end of the ANC

For the first time in South Africa’s 30 years of democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to obtain a majority of votes, making a coalition imminent.

Making Gaza the issue in the general election

Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.

Labour and the election

Pat Stack looks at Labour, the election campaign and what comes next

Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer

Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.

Police in green uniform and helmets and holding batons run down a road in Senegal. They are turning back to look at the protestors behind them.

Resisting state brutality in Senegal

History of the political crisis in Senegal in light of the current elections.

The Socialist Alliance, George Galloway and Respect: left electoralism the last time around

After George Galloway’s Rochdale victory, David Renton reflects on past left electoral vehicles, and why democracy and accountability are essential.

Whither Poland

Dan Davison analyses the new Polish government, the Polish left, and the rise of the far right.

Rochdale by-election highlights Labour’s bankruptcy on Gaza

Rochdale – a significant victory, but not the left alternative we need.

What it means to say Trump will govern like a fascist

Many Democrats argue that Trump is a fascist and demand that the Left subordinate everything to the call to resist him, but we have to organise against the rise of authoritarianism.

The Tory meltdown continues

Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ latest by-election losses and looks at what this tells us about the prospects for the upcomin general election.

Who should be UCU’s next general secretary?

rs21 members in UCU discuss the candidates and offer their voting recommendations.

Into the abyss: On the Argentinian elections.

As Argentina lurches to the right, Adam Fabry analyses the rise of Javier Milei

Plantem Cara

Spanish elections: what next after fear trumps hate?

Luke Stobart analyses the Spanish election results.

Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy

The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.

Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England

Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.

hundreds of people wave flags for political parties. banners for parties are in the foreground.

What next after elections in Nigeria?

The new leadership does not herald change. Alex Batubo argues that a stronger workers’ movement is needed.

a picture of the White House, with a United States flag flying on top, and red and blue flowers and a fountain below.

Polarization and Paralysis: the U.S. after the midterm elections

Ashley Smith and Charlie Post draw a balance sheet of the midterm elections, and their lessons for the socialist Left in the United States. 

RNT, Unite, UNISON, anti-raids, climate and LGBTQ protesters unite on the picket line at Edinburgh Waverley station

Build the strikes, break the Tories

Kick out the Tories, build strikes and protests so from Day One under Labour we stop Starmer imposing austerity.

Brazilian presidential elections: some lessons from the first round

Hopes were high that Bolsonaro would be removed in the first round of Brazil’s elections. A Brazilian activist argues for a different strategy to win the second round.

Italy: fascism for the 21st century?

The threat of fascism in Italy’s election

People queue to vote at Stockholm Central Station

Far right gains in Swedish elections

The results are rooted in neoliberalism, racism and growing inequality

Paris May Day demo 2022

A breakthrough for the French left?

The second round of France’s parliamentary elections saw the president lose his majority, a new left alliance becoming the second largest force, but also a worrying increase in far-right representation. Ian Birchall explains the background and looks at what may come next.  

Demonstrators holding a banner which reads ' Le Pen et Macron: le 3eme tour social c'est maintenant! - 'the social 3rd round starts now!'

Prospects for the left after the French election

The results of the first round of the French presidential election make for grim reading. Ian Birchall looks at some of the lessons of the election, and the future prospects for the left.

Image of Sharon Graham with text 'let's get back to the workplace'

Sharon Graham wins stunning Unite victory

Graham recognises the need to focus on rebuilding workplace power to reverse union decline.