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FRENCH ELECTION SHOCK: Jean-Luc Mélenchon ‘most convincing’ candidate in latest poll

FIREBRAND Jean-Luc Mélenchon is seen as the “most convincing” French presidential candidate, a Viavoice opinion poll for the left-wing daily Libération published on Sunday...

Melenchon on the Rise

France: Mélenchon gains amidst traditional party collapse   With under a month to go before the first round of France’s presidential elections, there is still all...

Anatomie du Front national. Entretien avec René Monzat

Le succès électoral du Front national invite à revenir sur les mutations de cette formation d’extrême droite. Dans cet entretien, René Monzat, ancien animateur...

Ten Proposals to Beat the European Union

  This collective text initiated by Eric Toussaint, of the CADTM campaign for the abolition of the debt of the global South has been collectively...

Sahra Wagenknecht for dissolving NATO

The parliamentary leader of Germany's largest opposition party, the Leftist Linke, has urged the dissolution of the NATO alliance. Sahra Wagenknecht on Tuesday asked for dissolving the North Atlantic...

Trump as a reflection of contradictions of capitalism

By Boris Kagarlitsky The first weeks of Trump’s presidency did not resemble honeymoon normally enjoyed by newly elected leaders of the United States. The severity...

Greek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in...

By Larry Elliott Original post date: 5 February 2017 Put three people in a room who can’t get on with each other. Condemn them to stay...

Do You Need a Ride or a Checkered Pattern?

By Boris Kagarlitsky The events currently unfolding in the United States, and discussions of the American Left regarding Trump, remind me of the famous Soviet...

Varoufakis and Democracy, Left and Nationalism

DDP note: Wayne Hall, who is a friend of the Delphi Initiative and also a centrally registered member of Diem25 has addressed us the...

A Voice From the Left

If somebody asked me, in 2016, why I still consider myself to be on the Left, then I would undoubtedly start from my thoughts about the historical shift that occurred with the atomic bombings of two Japanese cities on 6th and 9th August 1945. Yet I would be the first to admit that the question of these weapons of mass destruction (and other such weapons) transcends the traditional spectrum of political ideologies, including those of the Left and of the Right.