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Voters in the feudal African kingdom of Swaziland began casting ballots for a new parliament.
But the election was dismissed by critics as a phoney rubber stamp for absolute rule by King Mswati III.
The Pudemo party, the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) and the South Africa-based Swaziland Solidarity Network have called for a boycott of the poll.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
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
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The shared path of the South African Communist Party and the ANC to the ballot box has found itself at a junction. SABINA PRICE reports