Multipolarity includes analysis and news regarding the global shifting of power away from hegemonic Western unipolar structure towards multiple poles of power.
This week marks the beginning of Brazil’s presidential campaign, with the two front-runnersācurrent President Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva and Senator FlĆ”vio…
Ana Cristina Carvalhaes is a founding activist of Brazilās Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) and a Fourth International executive bureau member. In…
Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russiaās most…
The Moment of Bifurcation In the scientific field, the term ābifurcationā was first used by Henri PoincarĆ©, but in the second half…
In the Progressive International’s ninth Briefing of 2026, we examine how the war on Iran has accelerated the breakdown of the old…
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese peopleās revolution, remarking that a āprincipal and…
Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace,…
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, Venezuelaās President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were dragged from their bedroom and…
I agree with what Jason Hickel wrote in a recent blog, that we need a mass political party that would implement a…
Mexico is now the latest flashpoint in a wave of Gen Z-led uprisings sweeping parts of Asia and Latin America, as violent…
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