The diversity in the composition of the constituent assembly not only adds legitimacy to the process, but also “leads to better decisions”, because “having different points of view will allow there to be less bias in deliberation.”
Analysis
Anti-Asian violence: A long history has a new chapter
The claim that Covid 19 is the fault of Asians is the new refrain in anti-Asian racism. Trump began to sound this note in a series of rallies in the spring of last year.
Colombia: The popular uprising is bringing down Duque’s neoliberal and militarist regime
This military barbarism confirms that we are witnessing the collapse of the so-called “Rule of Law” and confirms that there is an abysmal separation between the institutions of a precarious representative democracy and the social demands of the majority of Colombians.
Biden’s first 100 days: An assessment
So far, the “left” has stayed pretty much in Biden’s camp, and have put little pressure on him or the administration. It’s clear that they are playing a supportive role to the administration and the congressional Democrats.
Inflation and financial risk
Monetarist theory has been proven wrong because it starts from the wrong hypothesis: that money supply drives prices of goods and services. But the opposite is the case: it is changes in prices and output that drives money supply.
Israel: The U.S. watchdog
U.S. Middle East policy rests on a dilemma. The U.S. maintains its “special relationship” with Israel because Israel is the most pro-Western and stable country in the region. Yet the U.S. realizes that it must also have support from some Arab regimes, the mass of whose populations resent the U.S. links to Israel.
THIS MUST END: A Letter from Gaza as Israel’s bombs fall
How long will the world just sit idly by while we here in Gaza suffer like this? The people of Gaza need more than just statements and resolutions, while Israel receives the arms which are killing and terrorizing us.
Greece: The struggle against the Right at a critical juncture
The coming months in Greece will be far from smooth. The labor law, the privatization of social security, the repression in universities, will come up against resistance. This is where the future of Mitsotakis and the course of future developments will be determined.
India’s Covid disaster: The masses are paying for the callousness of the Modi regime
Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the right-wing BJP government, instead of fighting the virus with emergency health measures, has been manipulating the pandemic as a divisive tool for its communal politics.
Colombia: The state’s deadly assault on social protest
Though it has received little coverage in the mainstream U.S. press, there has been ongoing mass protests, along with murderous state repression, in Colombia over the past weeks.
May 4 in Madrid: A defeated left (a chronicle of urgency)
Iglesias’s last episode of resigning all of his positions left Podemos in a deep internal crisis that portends a ferocious power struggle. It’s a crisis that will also have consequences inside UP.
Revolution and counter-revolution in Myanmar
Counter-revolutionary violence has reached new heights in Myanmar, as the Tatmadaw (the country’s military) attempts to terrorise a nationwide uprising into submission.
Labor Notes: April month of trouble making (part III)
The bi-annual Labor Notes conferences have become perhaps the most important gathering places for the left in the labor movement. The purpose of this article is to report on these meetings.
Vaccine imperialism: If no one is safe until everyone is safe, then no one is likely to be safe
The arrival of effective vaccines against Covid-19 provides hope that the pandemic that has infected over 100 million people and killed over 2.5 million can be brought under control. But that will not happen while much of the world’s population remains unvaccinated. In largely unvaccinated areas, the virus will continue […]
Ecuador: How did the Right make a comeback?
Lasso skillfully portrayed Arauz as a candidate who couldn’t tell the truth. The revelation that Arauz worked with Lenin Moreno’s government when he was an official of the Central Bank—a fact Arauz tried to conceal—spearheaded Lasso’s dirty campaign.
