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, by HETLAND Gabriel
“If the left is to counter [the right wing] narrative, and defend the real gains of Chavismo during the 2000s and 2010s, it must give up on consoling fantasies and take a clear-eyed look at the country’s degeneration. That means resisting apologism for Maduro.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás (…)
, par JACOBS Nicholas
It takes more than camo hats, hot dish and a rural-friendly image to get the votes of America’s rural residents.
The selection of Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate has sparked a wave of commentary suggesting that simply by elevating a former small-town football coach to the candidacy for (…)
, par SUMMERS Ryan
A growing number of states are passing laws that call scientific theories into question.
Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution. iStock / Getty Images Plus
Scientific theory has had a rough time in (…)
, by KRISS Sam
Behind the scenes, the online Right is just as divided as the Left—and it’s adopted many of its pathologies too. Are we facing a fascist coup, or just a collapse into political confusion?
Before “weird” became the summer’s hottest and most contentious political insult, JD Vance cheerfully (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
This is the latest in a series of articles on Black candidates for President or Vice-President of the United States. Links to all of the articles in the series can be found at thi end of this one. – DL
Dr. Cornel West, one of America’s most distinguished Black intellectuals, announced in June (…)
, by LEIFER Joshua, SHAHID Waleed
As the Democrats’ convention begins, political strategist Waleed Shahid discusses the possibilities for shifting the party on Israel-Palestine.
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Dearborn, Michigan, August 18, 2024. (Courtesy of Uncommitted (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Belgian ecosocialist activist Daniel Tanuro’s book-length deep dive into the Trump phenomenon is now here in a new English translation.
Foreword by Daniel Tanuro to the English Translation
Editor’s Note: In 2017, during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Belgian ecosocialist (…)
, by BONILLA MOLINA Luis , CARVALHAES Ana C.
Unlike what has been happening for the last 25 years in Venezuela’s – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez’s victory in 1998 – this time, after the 28 July vote, the broad Latin American left, including the entire base of ‘progressivism’, has split from top to bottom.
A smaller and (…)
, by BRACHO Yoletty
Yoletty Bracho, a Venezuelan activist and researcher living in France, has devoted her research to the relationship between popular neighbourhood organisations and the state born from the Bolivarian revolution. Present in Venezuela in the weeks leading up to the elections, she was able to meet (…)
, by PIVA Adrián
Here we will try to understand this phenomenon as the condensation of a profound process of transformation of the power relations that linked economy and politics after the crisis of 2001 and, therefore, as a sign of the end of an era.
In what follows, we will try to develop this argument by (…)
Protests erupted after the July 28 presidential election as soon as the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Nicolás Maduro had won another six-year term. Media reports indicate that as of July 31, 2024, dozens of protesters have died and more than a thousand have been arrested.
In (…)
, by VELASCO Alejandro
If revolution is to win again in Venezuela, its backers at home and abroad must first recognize that they lost.
At a glance, it seems all too familiar. Another hotly contested election in Venezuela, another victory for the long-besieged Chavista government, another round of fraud allegations (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Joe Biden will alas not stand in the dock before the International Criminal Court – that much is sure. There is no doubt, however, that the court of history, which is the fairest of criminal courts, will include his name prominently on the list of perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
Since (…)
, by HEATHCOTE Gary
Privatization of health care in New Brunswick, “creeping” insidiously in 2016, reached full “gallop” by 2022. And the pace continues to increase. This trend is well documented by a New Brunswick Health Coalition (NBHC) report and more recent sources cited below.
Coverage of the mounting (…)
, by MOOR Ahmed
While Congress cheered Netanyahu, grassroots mobilizations of the Democratic base marked a sharp break from the party’s support for Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (…)
, by MIAH Malik
Once again, the police show their true colors: shooting in the face and killing a 36-year-old Black mother, Sonya Massey, in her own home in Springfield, Illinois. She called 911 for fear of an intruder and became the victim. She leaves two teenage children.
It happened on July 6, but the (…)
, by STEFANONI Pablo
Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace (the Palacio Quemado) have been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis Arce’s (…)
, by LEVY Gideon
Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who is persona non grata in almost every democratic capital in the world, affording him royal treatment.
sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Kamala Harris could become the first woman president of the United State if she wins in November. Harris is now the putative Democratic Party candidate, having garnered enough votes to win the nomination at the convention later in August, and many progressive Democrats are trying to convince (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
“A couple of weeks ago. Biden said, “Only the ’Lord Almighty’ could convince me to quit.” Well, apparently, He did... At the Republican National Convention, the party’s candidate Donald Trump was hailed not only as the party’s nominee for president, but as a man chosen by God. Was that the same (…)
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