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.
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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.
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.
Myanmar’s anti-coup movement
“We have learned from past generations that the working class is the key to victory in this struggle. And from them we have learned that you must never give up and never give in.”
Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government
The government is under pressure and the days of arrogant self-confidence that defined the beginnings of his term are behind it. But its future is far from determined.
Myanmar’s spring revolution
On 22 February, more than one million people joined the call for a general strike and marched in the largest nationwide mobilisation since resistance to the coup began.
Ali Wazir betrayed!
More than half of this Parliament’s tenure has passed but Ali Wazir is continuously being constantly dragged into fabricated cases. But he is following the footsteps of Bolsheviks deputies who used to be either in Duma exposing the system and being voices of the oppressed or in Jails.
With Biden there will be more “color revolutions” in Latin America
If Trump’s term was abominable, Biden’s will be no less so. Let’s remember that the war in Syria, the liquidation of the Arab spring, and the invasion of Libya were promoted and managed by the team that is now returning to the White House.
Bolivia: Racism defeated, the birth of a new political cycle
The rank-and-file of the social movements seem to have arrived at a clear understanding that they cannot follow the same script as before in their relations with the government.
Radiance and sunset of Podemos – reasons for a farewell
Podemos has become a plebiscitary electoral apparatus that, while it represents a part of the left, although in a diminishing way, is an impediment to the development of popular self-organization.
Poland is in revolt against its new abortion ban
Having kept Poland in a state of constant anxiety about abortion since at least 2016, the conservatives now decided to push it further, again using the Constitutional Court.
Goodnight Golden Dawn
Greek fascists found guilty while the people flood the streets October 7, 2020 is a day that will go down in history. The judges declared that the neo-nazi group of Golden Dawn is a criminal organization, in what has been described as one of the most important trials against a […]
The threat of a Greco-Turkish War in the Eastern Mediterranean
A destructive Greco-Turkish war in the Eastern Mediterranean is not the most probable outcome of the competitions in the region, but it is a scenario whose prospects have been raised recently. In the waters south of the Greek island complex of Dodekanisos, south of the island of Crete and around […]
