Left Politics

Colombia’s Left After The 2026 Election

July 10, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Colombia, Elections, Latin America, Left Politics, Pink Tide

Within hours of Colombia’s June 21 presidential runoff, major international news organizations declared the country’s conservative candidate the victor. Political commentators across the hemisphere described the result as another blow to Latin America’s progressive “Pink Tide” and another victory for the global right. Yet on the streets of Bogotá, where international election observers continued watching the vote count unfold, the mood was markedly different. The official scrutiny process was still underway. Progressive candidate Iván Cepeda had not yet conceded.

Why We Continue To Support Venezuela

June 6, 2026 João Pedro Stédile, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! International Solidarity, Left Politics, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The current political situation in Venezuela cannot be explained solely by the events following January 3, 2026. We need to contextualize what has been happening over the past four decades. In the 1990s, there was total U.S. hegemony on the continent, which imposed the NAFTA agreement on us, and then sought to impose the FTAA as a space under the complete control of U.S. capital. All governments except Cuba supported the Americans. But the people of some countries rebelled. In Venezuela, there was the Caracazo in 1989; then the military rebellion; and finally, the electoral victory of Chávez, who took power in 1999.

Colombia: An Ethical Revolution (With A Grassroots Focus)

June 3, 2026 David Escobar, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Colombia, Elections, Latin America, Left Politics

Colombia is approaching the most important election on the continent—and possibly on the planet. Not because Bogotá will decide merely the administrative fate of a peripheral state, but because something far more profound is at stake in Colombia: the possibility that Latin America will continue and deepen the historic rupture that began with Gustavo Petro’s government in the face of the old order of the armed oligarchic estate as a form of government. While Europe is consumed by its liberal exhaustion and the United States is once again flirting with mass fascism, the Latin American continent is once again becoming the decisive laboratory of global politics.

Workers And Left Parties In South Asia Mark May Day

May 3, 2026 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Left Politics, May Day, South Asia, Worker Rights

Hundreds of thousands of workers from all corners of South Asia took to the streets on Friday, May 1, to celebrate International Workers’ Day or May Day, renewing their commitment to confront the accelerating onslaught of attacks on workers’ rights and the intensifying cost of living crisis. Trade unions and left parties held rallies and meetings where they paid tribute to the workers of the 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair, some of whom paid with their lives to ignite a global movement for better working conditions and the 40 hour week.

Saying No To The Empire Is Not Enough

March 29, 2026 Max Elbaum, Portside. Strategize! Anti-war Movement, Iran, Left Politics, Socialism, US Empire, Wars and Militarism

The joint US-Israeli war against Iran puts an exclamation point on the Gaza genocide. It sends a message to the world from the regimes in Washington and Tel Aviv that if you didn’t get it before, you better get it now: We will do absolutely anything that our military strength allows us to do. There are no rules or international laws we are bound to acknowledge, much less respect. You have two choices: capitulate or be destroyed. Most European governments, all too many regimes elsewhere, and major sections of the Democratic Party leadership here offer at most a few “process objections” to this level of ruthlessness but go with the flow.

At No Kings: Let’s Flood The Streets To Add Left Demands

March 25, 2026 Left Voice. Strategize! ICE, Left Politics, No Kings Protest, Wars and Militarism

On March 28, No Kings and dozens of unions, community organizations, and left-wing groups across the country are calling for a mobilization under the slogan: No ICE, No War, No Kings. This cannot be just another mobilization; it must be a historic surge of millions so that Donald Trump and the Epstein gang hear us loud and clear. Trump and the Far Right were defeated in Minneapolis by the massive grassroots movement that brought about the end of Operation Metro Surge and the firing of Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security.

The Quiet Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras

November 12, 2025 John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! Elections, Honduras, Left Politics, US Interference

Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilize other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot that would create chaos enabling a neoliberal candidate to be declared victor, with Washington’s connivance, in Honduras’s elections on November 30. At stake is four more years of progressive government or – otherwise – returning to the neoliberalism that prevailed after the US-backed military coup in 2009. The electoral defeat of progressive parties in Ecuador and Bolivia earlier this year, and the uncertain chances of progressive candidate Jeannette Jara in Chile’s elections this month and next, mean that Honduras is a crucial test.

Five Myths About The Crisis Of The Left In Bolivia

August 24, 2025 Sacha Llorenti, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Left Politics, Movement Towards Socialism (MAS)

I have read with great attention many comrades, people whom I love and respect a lot, simplifying the situation of the crisis of the left in Bolivia. I know that these criticisms come from honest people, born out of genuine concerns and solidarity with the Bolivian people. However, a series of common points emerge that deserve an explanation, given the unique characteristics of Bolivia, its social movements, and its left. It is not egos, lack of generosity, or meanness that marked the break between the social movements and the government of Luis Arce. This is a reductionism that hides a lack of understanding of what the MAS, the political instrument of the social organizations that came to conquer political power in Bolivia in December 2005, means.

US Counterinsurgency Wins In Bolivia

August 21, 2025 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Bolivia, Elections, Left Politics, Lithium, US Regime Change

On Sunday August 17, 2025, the first round of presidential elections in the Plurinational State of Bolivia were held in the small Andean nation of 12 million people. Now the country is headed to an October 19 run-off between centrist Christian Democratic Party Senator Rodrigo Paz, the son of a former president, and former right wing President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga of the Libre Party. The election results on Sunday ended twenty years of MAS-IPSP (Movement Towards Socialism - Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the People) in power with MAS candidate and current Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo polling at between 1-2%, effectively completing the objectives of the 2019 coup.

The Bolivian Left’s Self-Destructive Path

August 20, 2025 William Camacaro, COHA. Educate! Bolivia, divide and conquer, Elections, Left Politics

The Bolivian political landscape is currently characterized by a deep, self-inflicted crisis within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) which has culminated in a devastating electoral defeat yesterday. As the country approached the crucial presidential elections of August 17, 2025, the party’s leaders—specifically former President Evo Morales and President Luis Arce Catacora—engaged in a series of personal attacks and internal conflicts that paved the way for their own defeat. This political irresponsibility, driven by ambitions and factionalism, has enabled the return to power of the very right-wing forces that the MAS struggled for years to overcome.

Bolivia Turns To The Right

August 19, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Left Politics, Neoliberalism

With more than 95.41% of the votes counted, Bolivia’s Plurinational Electoral Body reported that, according to the preliminary results, Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and former president Jorge Quiroga of the Free Alliance (AL) emerged as the big winners on election day. Paz obtained more than 32% of the valid votes, while Quiroga obtained almost 27%. Bolivia’s current president, Luis Arce, said in a speech to the nation: “We have made every effort to ensure a peaceful and transparent electoral process.” For Arce, who decided to withdraw his election campaign in May, the election result was a severe blow, as his party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), came in sixth place, its worst electoral performance in decades.

Speak, Claudia!

March 2, 2025 Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. Strategize! Claudia Sheinbaum, Left Politics, Mexico, Sovereignty, US Imperialism

Lago de Chapala, Mexico—Watching that procession of hapless European supplicants passing through the Oval Office this week, my mind wandered briefly and came back with an imaginary scene I found pleasurable and instructive all at once: What if Claudia Sheinbaum went to see President Trump right after Andrzej Duda, the ineffectual Polish president, Emmanuel Macron, the ineffectual French president, and Keir Starmer, the hopelessly ineffectual British prime minister? What a kick. The spirited, self-possessed Mexican president, who took office but five months ago, would have put on full display—I am sure of this—the dynamism of an emergent generation of non–Western leaders right next to three exemplars of the wilting, wandering West.

Left Party Makes Comeback In German Election

February 24, 2025 Marcel Fürstenau, Portside. Educate! Die Linke, Elections, Germany, Left Politics

Early projections put the socialist Left Party at over 8%, nearly twice as much as they garnered in the last election in 2021, when they won only 4.9% of the vote. Last year was a political nightmare for the Left Party: In January 2024, their former parliamentary group leader, Sahra Wagenknecht, founded her own eponymous party, then they saw their European Union representation cut in half to just 2.7%. The 2024 state elections were also a disaster, with the party losing its traditional foothold in eastern Germany. Their only state premier failed to hang on in Thuringia, while the party barely made it into Saxony's state parliament and was kicked out of Brandenburg entirely.

Lessons On Building Independent Progressive Power In A City

December 2, 2024 Steve Early, Popular Resistance. Create! California, Chevron, DSA, Green party, Left Politics

In 2006 Richmond, California became the largest city in the U.S. to elect a Green Party member as its mayor (a record it still holds). The successful candidate, who served eight years in that office, was Gayle McLaughlin, a leading critic of Chevron Corporation, the city’s largest employer and biggest polluter. McLaughlin co-founded the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) and is now an East Bay DSA member as well. In 2004, she was the sole RPA representative on the council, long dominated by friends of Big Oil. In January 2025, that seven-member body will have a progressive-majority of four, including DSA-backed Vice-Mayor Claudia Jimenez, who was re-elected to the council this fall. Richmond’s current mayor is Eduardo Martinez, one of just seven city hall leaders in the country who belong to DSA.

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