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Understanding the new right, in order to combat it
By: Raúl Zibechi It’s very common that we face new challenges with attitudes and ideas born in previous contexts that, therefore, don’t adjust to the emerging realities. Something similar happens with the new right: We are content with using adjectives…
Read MoreSpirituality and autonomy
By: Raúl Zibechi Those of us who have been trained in materialism and Eurocentric critical thought have serious difficulties in comprehending and assuming the role of spirituality in the emancipatory processes. We are deeply dependent on Marx’s famous phrase that…
Read MoreThe extreme right took root in our societies
By: Raúl Zibechi If anyone has the illusion that the extreme right is a passing phenomenon, the first round of the Brazilian elections should convince us otherwise. It’s here to stay, as happens in Italy, the United States, Chile, Colombia…
Read MoreThe regional scenario after Dilma
By: Raúl Zibechi The removal of Dilma Rousseff by the most conservative Senate since 1964 (the year of the State coup against João Goulart) closes the progressive cycle that started with the elevation of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on…
Read MoreZibechi: New black movements in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi Last June 11, a group of neighbors from the Morumbi barrio of São Paulo demonstrated in support of the police that killed Ítalo, a 10-year old black boy. According to the demonstrators, the boy was just a…
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: 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 MoreRaúl Zibechi: When the Peripheries Move
WHEN THE PERIPHERIES MOVE AROUND Raúl Zibechi Groups of youths from 15 to 20 years old are self-convoking in the shopping centers of Brazil, above all in São Paulo, although the practice is extending throughout the country, to walk around,…
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