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Spain: can the socialist-populist embrace last?
Podemos and the PSOE have formed a coalition against a marked swing to the right -
Lebanon: Protests Call for End to Confessional System
Lebanon, like Iraq, Sudan, and Algeria, is experiencing its own version of the Arab Spring with mass demonstrations, occupations and ... -
Is this the long-overdue Iraqi Spring?
Iraq is once again the scene of massive protests. In the capital and in southern cities thousands-strong demonstrations have been ... -
CLR James: From Trotskyism to Pan-Africanism
Over 80 years ago, CLR James’ remarkable work, The Black Jacobins was published in London. Its author openly intended his ... -
America First signals an intensification of US unilateralism
ANYONE WHO doubted that Donald Trump’s arrival as 45th president of the United States heralded a major change in both the country’s ... -
A progressive patriotism?
THE PROJECT to develop “our own progressive patriotism”, as Owen Jones puts it, is seriously misplaced, indeed a fool’s errand ... -
The political crisis in Spain
AFTER TEN months of political wrangling and two inconclusive elections, Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has secured the support of the ... -
The bitter fruit of Brexit
THE FIRST of the reactionary consequences of Brexit is the major boost it has given to racist attacks on people ... -
G20: Climate deal overshadowed by US-China tensions
FIRST THE good news from Hangzhou; the US and China have adopted the international climate change agreement reached in Paris ... -
Freedom of movement is a right
IN THE LAST weeks of the Referendum campaign the Brexit campaigners, led by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, decided to play their ...