Gifts are Parables!
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis in the Vatican on 30 October the four gifts which Pope Francis gave PM Modi are extremely significant: they are parables!
Twelve Years After Coup, Honduran Resistance Fights for Fair Election
The 2009 coup in Honduras is responsible for the deepening of the crisis and social, economic, and political chaos in the country. But today, we have an alternative: the LIBRE Party and our candidate Xiomara Castro. She is the only candidate with a plan with a social and humanistic approach.
Ecuador’s Neoliberal Government Announces State Emergency to Impose Austerity
The decree by the President of Ecuador came just when the people’s movements gave a call for social mobilizations against the rise in fuel prices and Lasso’s austerity proposals.
Sudanese March Yet Again, Demanding Full-Fledged Civilian Rule
Country-wide marches in Sudan on October 30 marked a major escalation in the mass resistance against the military coup. Protesters, who until then were mostly confined to neighborhoods, took over the main roads and highways, paralyzing all transport.
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Brazil Is Leading the Way
The accusation against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for “crimes against humanity” on public health grounds made by Brazilian Congressional panel – many of these crimes mimic the actions and policies of Donald Trump and could be the basis for similar actions against the former U.S. president.
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Women’s Struggle in Nicaragua: from Liberation Fighters to Building an Alternative Society
Since the 1979 Sandinista revolution, the living conditions for women have drastically improved, successes which even the period of neoliberal rule (1990-2006) couldn’t completely overturn. Their material and social position has further strengthened during the second Sandinista period from 2007 until today.
Manufacturing Ignorance: Keeping the Public Away from Power
In the absence of adequate public knowledge, and thus the reduced ‘threat’ of an informed populace participating in a real democracy, power is more or less free to do as it pleases.
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The Planetary Rift
The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.
Food Sovereignty from the Perspective of the Urban Poor
On the occasion of World Food Day and the 25-year anniversary of the struggle for food sovereignty: Speech by the president of South Africa’s shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, S’bu Zikode to UN Food Systems Summit, September 16, 2021.
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Cuba’s Scientists, Medical Workers Advance Fight Against COVID
By Nov. 15, Cuba will have fully vaccinated an astounding 92% of its population, thanks to Cuba’s development and production of its own vaccines. Cuba’s vaccination rate is the fastest in the world, and the only country whose children as young as two years are being covered.