In May 1968, the occupation of the Sorbonne and the barricades of the Latin Quarter turned the student population into the catalyst for a national political crisis. Fifty-eight years later, it is no longer ideological debates that are driving students into the streets, but material neglect, (…)

Did we really have a good life before October 2023? I asked myself this question, drowning in grief as I watched a video on social media mourning the beautiful, old Gaza and showing scenes from before the genocide started. My mind took me back to our life at that time - a life I now dream of (…)

There was no malice in his wit and no self-righteousness in his politics. He never looked down at others or sanctimoniously assumed a position of superiority. Living as an equal, among equals, was the right way to be for him. Kamal Chenoy and I first met 50 years ago in 1976, but it was only (…)

It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious challenge to Narendra Modi’s rule in years. On October 10, India’s capital city, New Delhi, was turned into a fortress as protesters tried to oppose a countrywide (…)

Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has brought Spain to a political impasse. How are we back here again? The immediate trigger was the eviction of an elderly tenant. Maricarmen Abascal, who had (…)

At the heart of bourgeois liberal democracy there lay a contradiction. In the political sphere, bourgeois democracy promised equality via the familiar slogan One Man/Woman One Vote. In the economic context, however, the capitalist system, under which all bourgeois democracies so far have (…)

Sam Gindin is one of the most exacting and capacious thinkers on the socialist Left today. With decades of experience in the labour movement as research director for the Canadian Auto Workers (which merged in 2013 with the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union to form Unifor, today the (…)

Thousands of students filled the streets of India in July 2026 in one of the largest student mobilisations since Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. As students waged their protests, confronting police and the Rapid Action Force (RAF), a paramilitary unit of the (…)

Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Žabner argues that only a single democratic state-not partition-can deliver justice, equality and decolonization in Palestine. For decades, the two-state solution has dominated international discussions on Palestine. At the Second Jewish (…)

By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level - the level of evil. Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths - superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, need for constant stimulation, a penchant (…)