Archive of elections

While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.     

In this excerpt from the epilogue to his landmark 1986 Prisoners of the American Dream, Mike Davis sketches the necessary conditions to build an independent left politics that has real and effective social anchorage in the United States. 

Right-wing Uribe protégé Iván Duque is the next president of Colombia, but the Colombian left also had its most impressive turnout in history.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory as an open critic of the Israeli Occupation may be a new bellwether in American politics.

Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power. 

An interview with Rossana Rossanda on the Italian elections and the future of the Italian left.