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Private platforms, free speech and public consensus

The recent arrests of opposition candidates, students, and professors have a haunting resonance in Latin America. Nearly three dozen journalists, activists, judges, prosecutors, investigators, and former government officials have been forced to flee.

The Squad in AIPAC's gun sights

Is democracy today only a matter of whites, of Westerners, and has it been completely emptied of its meaning in terms of equality?

But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?

A century after Adolf Hitler's first attempt to seize power in Germany by force, it is worth remembering the economic and political conditions that gave the Nazis momentum in the first place.

The country continues toward a constitutional crisis as the far-right continues its attempts to subvert the August 20 electoral result.

The country’s Constitution was once the standard-bearer for the world. Today, many other countries have much fairer systems for electing their leaders and passing laws.

News and analysis on left parties and social movements around the world

We’re neutral in any war, not because we don’t believe there is an occupation, but because many of the countries of Latin America have suffered invasions by the same countries that today are extending an invitation to reject the invasion of Ukraine.