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Donald Trump knows how to surprise. The bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores was audacious. As a spect...

Having seen Elon Musk cause transatlantic agonies in Britain , Donald Trump had to make a bigger international splash. At a news conference ...

A comprehensive overview from Sai Englert on the history of settler colonialism. In discussion with Alex, this instalment of the always-exce...

The end of the Bolsonaro experiment has come into view. A malignant blight on the Brazilian body politic, he stuffed the state apparatus wit...

There isn't much more depressing than watching the Amazon burn. And is there anything more infuriating than watching Jair Bolsonaro tr...

The New Year came and went, and now sat in the Presidential Palace in Brasilia we find Jair Bolsonaro. Misogynist, racist and, some might ...

Fascism, the grey beards observed, is the price the working class pays when it fails to make a revolution. In the early 21st century, matt...

Some quick thoughts about what's happening in Brazil. 1. Polling 46% is extremely rare for a hard right populist outfit, and tends t...

No time for a blog tonight, so here's my old mucker Ed Rooksby talking about different kinds of reformism, the experience of Chile and ...

When there is a crisis overseas, you can tell a great deal about someone by how they react to it. In this case I'd like to draw attent...

As the world wakes up to the passing of the world's best known revolutionary, coal mountains' worth of electronic comment are alread...

After expending a long day compiling and pouring over spreadsheets, I wasn't expecting two terabytes worth of them would bring a smile...

Sun, sand and socialism is how Cuba's usually billed in leftist circles. And wherever you look, among groups formally opposed to Stalini...

They're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming, England's coming home. What a shambles. Let's remember a hap...

While we play silly buggers with union links and Westminster watching, it is worth remembering that many of our comrades elsewhere risk thei...

T Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain is by no means a new book. But 18 years after publication it remains as fresh and relevant a...