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Zibechi: The New Venezuela
By: Raúl Zibechi Systemic crises usually provoke long-term mutations that leave nothing in place. The crisis of Spanish domination over our continent converted it into a completely new reality. Societies that were established towards the second half of the 19th…
Read MoreWikileaks: Temer was a U.S. Embassy informant in 2006
This morning, Saturday, May 14, 2016, La Jornada in Mexico published the Wikileaks news about Brazil’s new interim president, Michel Temer, having given information about the political situation in Brazil to the U.S. Embassy in 2006. La Jornada interprets this…
Read MoreA Dialogue with Raúl Zibechi
EXTRACTIVISM IS A WAR AGAIST PEOPLE A dialogue with journalist Raúl Zibechi (left), who reviews the irruption of new social movements in Latin America within the framework of the end of the cycle of the progressive governments. By: Mirko Orgáz…
Read MoreZibechi: Reflections on the Brazilian Crisis
By: Raúl Zibechi A relatively short time ago, the dominant classes of the world decided to unleash a war against the peoples in order to keep themselves in power in a period of acute change. They decided that democracies are…
Read MoreZibechi: Financial inclusion and full-spectrum domination
By: Raúl Zibechi Financial inclusion being one of the principal neoliberal initiatives, it’s difficult to accept the scarce debate existing among those who say they are enemies of that model centered on the domination of financial capital. The World Bank…
Read MoreZibechi: The social bases of the new rights
By: Raúl Zibechi A new right is emerging in the world and also in Latin America, a region that presents its own profiles and a new social base. It’s necessary to become familiar with it in order to combat it,…
Read MoreZibechi: Everything solid vanishes at the polls
By: Raúl Zibechi Four decades ago, the Peruvian intellectual and militant Alberto Flores Galindo threshed his opinion about elections, in a brief commentary apropos of the results of the voting for the Constituent Assembly, in which the indigenous campesino leader…
Read MoreZibechi: A Left for Century XXI
By: Raúl Zibechi In the ‘60s and ‘70s, those who joined the militancy often heard a phrase: “Being like Che.” An ethic was synthesized with that, a conduct, a mode of assuming the collective action the personage inspired that –with…
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