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The election of Lula in Brazil and Petro in Colombia in 2022 have led to increased noise in both the media and left-wing circles about a second ‘pink tide’ in Latin America. This is a reference to the wave of so-called ‘progressive’ governments that ruled for a number of years in several countries of the continent between 1998-2015. It is perhaps apt that these governments are described as a ‘pink’ tide, as they are certainly far from being socialist ‘red’. It is necessary to exa...

As Transition Together’s seed funding programme goes live, Rob Hopkins caught up with Laura Baldwin and Catherine Bennett from Portland 4 the Planet about the fabulous shoots which emerged from their grant last time round.

Hardly a week passes now without politicians, bloggers and columnists writing about Irish unity and calling on the Dublin government to establish a...

XR Ventnor say there should have been a Citizens' Assembly to decide the outcome of drilling for oil on the Isle of Wight and call on the IW council to ...

Kwame Shakur: Letter to the People May 6, 2021 Donate and sign the petition to return the Hyte Center to the New Afrikan Black people! The Hyte Center, now with the name Booker T. Washington, once belonged to Kwame Shakur’s family and is now run by a Euro-American person who is not representative of the community who once used and thrived on its bounty of offerings. The current organization running the center has become unresponsive to Kwame’s and his family. Support the movement for collec...

Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly hide caption toggle caption Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly Mike Floss spins music at a Black Nashville Assembly meeting. The group is trying to organize people to be more engaged politically. Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly Some organizers in Nashville, Tenn., are working to strengthen local Black political power. Last summer, the citys majority Democratic council reje...