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.
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.
Saving Nature: Overpopulation Is Not the Primary Problem
In a period of ecological and climate crises, a largely unchallenged view over how to save nature is the misconception that overpopulation is among the primary drivers of the crises.
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Socialist or Capitalist: What is China’s Model, Exactly?
While China’s economic system differs sharply from a Western capitalist system, it is definitely not socialist in the sense of having overcome the employer/employee structure.
The Pandemic, Technology, and Remote Work: The Corporate Push for Greater Control Over Workers’ Lives
The pandemic has led to corporations embracing at-home work and are pursing the use of new technologies designed to increase managerial control over the remote work process.
Greenland Succumbs
Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has gone ballistic, up, up, and away … the latest is that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting fast and faster.