Brazil will be holding general elections to vote in a new president and a new government in October. Emma Brooks examines Brazil’s electoral record in the past, present and the possible future.

With this week’s unveiling of a new domestic HIV/AIDS strategy the government looks susceptible to further criticism over healthcare, only this time the problem lies in their apparent frugality.

Come to the Vibe debate on July 15 in Central London – ‘should voting be compulsory?’ Debate, discuss, drink…what more could you want from an evening?

The Russian Federation is a country of some 142 million peoples with an ethnic diversity of around 160 countable indigenous and minority groups. Is ethnic repression and violence inevitable in post-Soviet Russia?

With the councils ‘urged’ to publish their detailed spending, what implications will this have?

After promising to create ‘political earthquakes’, the smaller parties and independents barely troubled the Richter scale and did not do as well as many expected in the recent election.

Those who claim Britain was not a three party state before this election, cannot possible make the same claim now.

Robert Kennedy once pointed out, “everyone likes the word progressive but no one likes the word change.” So what is ‘progressive’ politics?

The future of Chad looks bleak and will continue to be so for some time to come.

(c) Sarah Evans
I had been chasing John McDonnell for an interview ever since he announced his candidacy. When I finally spoke with him, late last Thursday evening, he had just arrived at his constituency …

If we ever want to preserve the democratic liberties at the heart of our society, the right to free speech and expression must not be threatened; not for liberals, not for conservatives, not even for radicals.

Although the boycott is a small incident – by Italian standards – it again raises the question of why, or how, does Berlusconi continue to maintain such a strong support in Italy