CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:
…movements. The party has been de-mobilizing social movements for some time. The MAS left the social movements to become an electoral force. It became more of an electoral instrument. There…
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FROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
…secular left which oppose the US-led occupation and the Islamist insurgents alike. Over the weekend of January 28-9, Japan’s Movement for Democratic Socialism hosted a meeting dubbed, with greater comprehension…
ARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN
…Simforoso Jaramillo, according to the Front of Mapuche and Campesino Struggle. The agents left Jaramillo with a fractured skull, broken rib, broken left arm, facial disfigurement and bruised back. He…
Assange to Ecuador: three questions nobody (on the left) is asking
…special forces “storming” its embassy. Well, I guess I shouldn’t be too disappointed that the “left” doesn’t give a shit about rape. After all, big segments of the “left” rallied…
ONLY LEFT RADICALISM CAN STOP FASCISM
…they are able to coalesce as an effective counter-power, sowing seeds of hatred and intolerance instead. Many commentators of a liberal democratic or center-left political persuasion have dismissed such warnings…
Mexico: left makes moderate gains in elections
…and the center-left parties. (El Universal, Caracas, July 10) The center-left coalition did better in the DF and in the seven states that elected governors on July 1. Progressive Movement…
NONVIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA
…for Francisco Tabarquino, killed by “paras” in 1997 on road to Apartado, the municipal seat. The carpentry workshop is named for Ramiro Correa, killed by leftist guerillas in 1997 while…
Trump’s ‘election’: Russian-backed fascist coup?
Well, this is pretty hilarious. Kremlin mouthpiece RT, long promoted as some kind of “alternative” by lefties in the West, is now baiting the anti-Trump protesters as paid pawns of George Soros,…
From Beirut to Paris…
…hypocritical than the current “leftist” self-flagelation. Leftists only seem to notice terrorism in Nigeria and Kenya and so on when it manifests in Paris, as an excuse to gloat at…
OWS: Yes, we are anti-capitalist!
…this question because the pro-corporate right (not to mention the pro-Israel right) portray anti-Semitism as a phenomenon of the left, and cynically use the charge to delegitimize any challenge to…
Enough with the Julian Assange hero worship
…For those who can see past the groupthink glorification, it reveals another example of the dissident space traditionally held by the left being assumed by the populist right—a frightening and…
Podcast: Against Red-Brown politics
…evidenced in the growing support for the genocidal dictatorship of Bashar Assad on both the “anti-war” (sic) “left” (sic) and the “alt-right.” Leading lights of the American “left” have joined…