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SOCIALISTS, communists and anti-capitalists brought down the Portuguese government yesterday after a conservative coalition held onto power for just 19 days.
An alliance between the Socialist Party (PS), the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), the Greens and the Left Bloc was cemented in the morning ahead of presenting a vote of no confidence in the right-wing cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
A government between the conservative Social-Democratic Party (PSD) and the Christian conservatives of CDS-PP had been appointed on October 20 by President Cavaco Silva despite only holding 39 per cent of the parliamentary seats.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
