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NEW YORK: Nearly a decade has passed since Bernie Sanders announced his first presidential run and ignited a democratic socialist electoral wave that has given us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Squad, and democratic socialist officials at every level of government.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could respond to a renewed Donald Trump presidency by confronting the far right in Britain and internationally. He could have used his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the common causes of the rise of Reform UK in Britain, National Rally in France and analogous movements across Europe.

LONDON: Confirming the trend in many countries in 2024, in Lithuania’s general election voters opted for change rather than more of the same. In the two-round contest that ended on October 27, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won a landslide victory, capturing fifty-two out of 141 parliamentary seats, well up from their previous thirteen. This Monday, the LSDP announced a coalition pact allowing the party to lead a new administration. So what explains the shift, and how much change can we really expect?

As president elect Donald Trump is edging towards taking over powers in America on January 20 next year, the country is lurching towards becoming a typical case of a plutocracy.

The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Baku in Azerbaijan must deliver an agreement on increased climate financing target up to the level that is at least necessary, if not enough, to tackle the present climate crisis. It is necessary since the pledge set in 2009 is to expire by this year end, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments are far less than required to reduce the targeted emission level, and there is a huge financing gap to meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius as per Paris Agreement of 2015.

From signing the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the United Nations (UN) Charter in 1945, the world has come a long way in its struggle to establish an organisation subordinated to no Earthly authority that upholds dignity and keeps a check on the untrampled exercise of sovereign power over territories.

LONDON: The US election result raises the spectre of Trump renewing the assault on Venezuela that his loss to Biden interrupted in 2020. In office between 2016 and 2020, Trump’s approach to Latin America showed an implacable hostility towards Venezuela, as well as other governments in the region determined to advance their population’s interests, not those of the US.

LONDON: Thousands more people are dying in poverty in Britain, including fuel poverty, shocking new research has revealed. Victims include people suffering end-of-life illnesses who are suffering the highest increases in poverty and cannot afford to heat their homes.

Three months after the installation of the interim government in Bangladesh headed by chief adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the politics of the 18 crore-nation has landed in fresh turmoil after the win of the Republican candidate Donald Trump in the just concluded November 5 presidential elections. Only six days have passed since the victory of Trump, but it has stirred the Bangladesh political establishment so much that talks are on in Dhaka’s diplomatic circles that Dr. Yunus may resign. The question is only when?

On November 14 this year, Sri Lanka will witness voting to elect a new parliament. In September, left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the People's Liberation Front, or Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), won the presidential election. JVP is part of a 21-party alliance, the National People's Power (NPP), established in 2019. When Dissanayake was elected President, the NPP had only three members in the 225-member Parliament.