To understand what the population rejected on 4 September, we have to look at the left’s lack of an economic programme to overcome neoliberalism; the impossibility of producing a persuasive narrative to oppose the smear campaign against the text.
The demand: democracy. The response: advancing fascist movements and state repression.
If we are to save our democracy, we must increase the influence of everyday people, of the workers who make corporations run. Worker power is the only counterbalance to corporate power.
The U.S. troops arrive amid an upsurge of Peru’s underclass. Peru’s mostly rural, poor, and indigenous majority elected the recently deposed Castillo as president in 2021, they are now calling for Boluarte's, (his unpopular replacement) removal.
What is paradoxical is that U.S. imperial ideology happens to be not fascism but an all-encompassing and intolerant liberalism refitted for rationalizing military and political expansion.
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
Sudan is in yet another civil war. Can it put military rule behind it once and for all?
The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…
In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.
Rather than celebrate this milestone of multiracial democracy, our leaders conspicuously ignore the occasion
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