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From War-Torn Europe to Reform: Tracing the Leftward Shift in Western Politics

In the aftermath of World War II, widespread devastation across Europe created fertile ground for political transformation, shaping decades of leftward shifts in governance, public...

The Guardian view on the politics of central Europe: in search of a new left | Editorial

Social democratic parties are suffering an almost total wipeout, as rightwing nationalism flourishes on the EU’s eastern flankPéter Magyar’s historic defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hung...

Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right

The gathering comes as far-right and nationalist forces have gained ground globally, eclipsing the left with messaging that pins cost-of-living concerns on immigration, outdated in...

Global leftists rally in Spain hoping to spark resurgence against far right

The gathering comes as far-right and nationalist forces have gained ground globally, eclipsing the left with messaging that pins cost-of-living concerns on immigration, outdated in...

The centre left is not dead. A progressive new counter-Trumpian movement is on the way

Social democrats are at last facing up to the failures of globalisation to create equality or deliver for workersIf Donald Trump represents the backlash against the liberalrules-ba...

Progressive leaders rally in Barcelona to defend the traditional liberal order

Progressive and traditional democratic leaders gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to discuss how to restore faith in the liberal order threatened by a world drifting toward far-righ...

Progressive leaders rally in Barcelona to defend the traditional liberal order

Progressive and traditional democratic leaders gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to discuss how to restore faith in the liberal order threatened by a world drifting toward far-righ...

The international right has CPAC. Has the left finally found its answer? | Owen Jones

Spain’s PM, Pedro Sánchez, hosted the inaugural meeting of the Global Progressive Mobilisation. Keir Starmer and other social democrats were notable by their absenceCan progressive...

Central Europe is a laboratory for political trends | Letters

Dr Sean Hanley responds to an editorial on the collapse of social democratic parties as rightwing nationalism flourishes Your editorial on the politics of central Europe (28 April)...

U.K.'s leftwing Greens seek to topple Labour's London strongholds

The trend among urban progressives could cost British Prime Minister Keir Starmer dearly.

Who will shape the global agenda, the left or far right?

Left-wing leaders meet in Barcelona, while far-right protesters march in Milan.

What Viktor Orbán's demise tells us about the new political compass

When Viktor Orbán lost the Hungarian parliamentary election last month, most of the coverage told a familiar story: Liberal democracy had defeated nationalist authoritarianism. Lef...

Australia has been a sanctuary from the populist right’s onslaught. Is it now living on borrowed time?

Australia has been averse to ideological extremes but, after two decades of growing inequality and public policy stasis, the country’s robust democratic formula is facing challenge...

Is Germany’s Postwar Consensus on Israel in Peril?

The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.

Europeans Are Also Tired Of Dumb Leftists Ruining Everything They Touch

After years of ugly institutional decline, mass immigration from unvetted Islamist refugees who are eroding British culture, and a long period of completely insane nanny state spee...

Viktor Orbán inspired rightwingers across the EU and in Britain. His defeat could represent a turning of the tide | Poll...

We must hope this vote will be the start of a wider backlash – and send hard-right populism back to the fringes where it belongsThe forces of darkness rolled back on Sunday. The mi...

The Physics of Politics

As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marxist-inspired philosophies ever...

The story of the far right's rise in Europe is far from over

Despite Orbán's loss in Hungary, far-right figures in the U.K., France and Germany are dominating in the polls, buoyed by a backlash to demographic shifts and economic malaise. Doe...

Europe’s Left and China: Beyond Campism and Atlanticism

The European left can make Europe’s China policy more socially intelligent. But leftists must not forget that Chinese society is more than the Chinese state.

As Politics Fragments, Can the Worldwide Center-Left Rally?

In the digital age, all politics is national. Just ask United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who may lose his job following the Labour Party's sweeping losses in his country'...

Anti-Trumpism Unites Europe

Trump’s brand has sunk so low that conservatives are now joining leftist politicians in opposing him.

To reverse the ‘greenlash’, Europe’s Green parties should embrace Polanski’s boldness | Tarik Abou-Chadi

Be more strident and ambitious, take on economic inequality, and progressive voters will reward you as they have the UK’s GreensTarik Abou-Chadi is a professor of European politics...

Latin America’s left gather in Spain to counter far-right

Barcelona, Spain — Left-wing leaders from across Europe and Latin America are holding a two-day conference in Spain in defense of the rule of international law and against the rise...

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