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Will Freeman Editorial note: In October 2019, Colombia held its first local and regional elections since the 2016 signing of the peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended a gruesome half century of civil war. The right wing suffered significant defeats in the local elections. Among the…
Courtesy: Green Left Weekly Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Haiti on October 17 to commemorate the national revolutionary and liberator Jean-Jacques Dessalines and to demand the resignation of United States-backed president Jovenel Moïse. Several huge mobilisations occurred across the country demanding an end to Moïse’s anti-people, corrupt and neoliberal government….
Peter Koenig Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country’s major cities, since the return to ‘democracy’ in 1990. A weeklong of fire, teargas and police brutality, left at least 20 people dead, thousands arrested and injured. More than 1.2 million people protested on October…
Courtesy: Telesur On October 24, after counting 99.9% of votes, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia (TSE) declared Evo Morales as the official winner of the presidential elections held in the country on October 20. Morales, of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), received 47.07% of votes and a lead of 10.56% over the second runner,…
Vijay Prashad The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it was drawn on the walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in a more sober register, it is mentioned in a seminar in Mexico City, Mexico. Elections and protests rattle the continent. The protest by…
Firoz Bakht Ahmed In the Shahjahanabadi old city of Delhi, between the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort, both monuments reminding of the Mughal pristine glory, a green and glossy patch covers an area where once stood the houses of the Muslim nobility. They were leveled after the Indian revolt against the British in 1857….
Dave Lindorff September 17, 2019: Now that the flags are back, waving from the tops of flagpoles across the country, and the maudlin paeans to the close to 3,000 lives lost in the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, it’s time we gave a thought to the…
Robert Koehler The big black pickup truck plunged into the protesters blocking the parking lot and I cringed, viscerally, as though I could feel it myself—this merciless crush of steel against flesh. I was recovering from a bicycle injury when I watched the event on the news last week, as members of the Never Again…
Samir Amin It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Fascism is not synonymous with an authoritarian police regime that rejects the uncertainties of parliamentary electoral democracy. Fascism is a particular political response to the challenges…
Colin Todhunter Mad cow disease is a fatal epidemic neurological syndrome created by the agricultural industry, farmers and food processors. In 1987, an epidemic of a fatal neurological disease in cows suddenly appeared in Britain. Cows became uncoordinated, staggered around, collapsed and finally died. The disease was called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) because there were…
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