When I was asked to write about Alternatives’ contribution to international solidarity in Quebec, I spent a long time going in circles, desperately thinking where to begin. But stories always have more than one beginning. Last year, we invited organizations and activists from different parts (…)

On October 4, 2026, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, candidate of the Liberal Party (PL) and its far-right coalition, finished the first round of Brazil’s presidential election with 47.03 per cent of the valid votes. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT) and its (…)

The Quebec election of October 5th delivered highly unusual results, courtesy of the current fragmentation of the political landscape and the archaic first-past-the-post electoral system. With only 28% of the vote, the Parti Québécois (PQ) won 59 seats and will form a minority government in (…)

The right to vote and the right to protest are the soul of democracy The Modi-Shah regime is coercing activists to sign so-called ’peace bonds’ and give up their constitutional right to express democratic dissent and organise peaceful protest. Leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) were (…)

The defining feature of Israeli "democracy," including its elections last week, is its operation according to a Jewish supremacist logic, intensifying the discrimination, oppression, apartheid, mass violence, and genocide against Palestinians. The recent Israeli elections are a grotesque (…)

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, (…)

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 (…)

It is with profound sadness and immense grief that we announce the passing of our comrade and friend, Palestinian activist and journalist Youssef Habash, who left us on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, after a battle with illness. The passing of our comrade Youssef is an immense loss, not only for (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)