Fascism: How the Pandemic Has Been Used Against Democracy in Latin America
Several governments in Latin America has used the pandemic as an excuse to deepen their domination over the people and intensify neoliberalism.
Mexico: First the Poor
The achievements of the first anti-neoliberal President of Mexico, AMLO, in his first year-and-a-half are striking – but questions are also being raised by explicitly anti-capitalist organisations like the Zapatistas.
The Burning Question Is Not If Duterte Will Go, But How
Popular support had propped up the Duterte regime and encouraged his arrogance in power. His utter incompetence in handling Covid-19 has eroded his popularity; the question now is not if he will go but how he will leave.
To Dream the Impossible Dream: Youth-Led Uprisings in Thailand
Since mid-July, student-led demonstrations have erupted across Thailand demanding an end to the harassment of dissidents, redrafting of the constitution, end to military control of government and a truly constitutional monarchy.
Brazil: Life Lessons and Resistance of the MST
Recently the Brazilian regime invaded and destroyed a part of the camp that the Landless Movement of Brazil had been maintaining for 20 years in Mina Gerais. An interview with one of the members of the camp.
The USA and Nicaragua Now: An Interview with S. Brian Willson
Brian, a Vietnam war veteran, discusses not only Nicaragua but the broader issues of US foreign policy and racially violent police brutality in the United States.
Revolutionary Black Resistance has a Long Tradition
Today when we say “Black Lives Matter!” we are echoing the calls of countless warriors before us – starting from the uprising led by Nat Turner – and claiming that tradition as our present and future.
The NBA Strike: The Most Important Protest in Team Sports Over the Last 50 Years – Three Articles
This week’s work stoppage in professional sports is the most significant moment of athlete activism in a half century not because it “raised awareness”, but because it exercised labor’s most elemental form of political power: the strike.
It Is More than 3 Months of Non-Stop Protests in the USA Now – Three Articles
Capping a week of protests, thousands of protestors gathered in Washington D.C., on 28 August to protest yet another police shooting of a black man in Kenosha – the day also marked the 1963 March on Washington.
“The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism” and We
Lawrence Britt has identified fourteen signs of fascism by analyzing the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Suharto and Pinochet. Do the speeches and actions of PM Modi not remind us of Britt’s characterisation of fascism?