Posle editors talk to Asheley Smith about “War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia” while Sasha Fokina dissects “Anticolonial fraud: The Kremlin in Africa”. Continuing previous themes Kunal Chatto gives us “West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism - A Balance Sheet” while Caterina Peroni explores the “Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide”. Paul Le Blanc reviews “Defining Democratic Socialists of America”, and on a historical note, we publish Harry Wicks on “ The 1926 General Strike in Britain ”.
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- 8 June – More from Features
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Argentina
The anti-capitalist left surge in Argentina and the letter that sparked a crucial debate
9 June, by ,“Even defeating Milei in the 2027 presidential elections would be significant. It would concretely demonstrate that, whether through insurrection or the ballot box, the far right can be defeated. And if the anti-capitalist left plays a decisive role in these movements, it would serve as an example for the left internationally.”
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USA
What Sort of Electoral Politics? A Debate in the U.S. Left
8 June, byThe left in the United States is once again, as always, debating how to engage in electoral politics. The debate seems more meaningful this year when more voters consider themselves to be independents (45%) than to be either Republicans (27%) or Democrat (27%). Could the left now present the disaffected with a political alternative.
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Palestine
Israel mistreats Flotilla activists and tortures Palestinian prisoners
7 June, byAfter the Israeli army’s violent interception of the Gaza flotilla, activists have denounced humiliation and violence — a long-documented glimpse into the torture and sexual violence suffered by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. More than 430 activists from the 50 boats that set out to break the blockade of Gaza were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army between Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 May, in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, up to 500 km from the coast of Gaza for the most distant boats and about 100 kilometres for the closest.
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Portugal
General Strike Rejects Labour Reform Package Once Again
6 June, by“It’s turning out to be a major general strike; the data we have from last night shows workers are determined to treat today as a major day of struggle,” said the CGTP’s General Secretary in the morning outside one of the striking schools in Lisbon.
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Bolivia
“Until the president resigns...”
5 June, byIn Bolivia, mobilizations against austerity and an agrarian reform favourable to the concentration of land have weakened the government of Rodrigo Paz and his neoliberal policies.
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Russia
Putinism - a new form of fascism?
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