(...) Ultimately, this brutal policy is legitimized by what I have called the abyssal line, the line that has separated full-fledged human beings from those considered subhuman since the beginning of colonial expansion. It’s no coincidence that we hear Israeli officials refer to Palestinians as animals.

Geneva 4th October 2023 – CETIM and La Via Campesina express concern over foreign intervention in Haiti and demand human rights protection.

‘We need to put the world back on track’! The objective of the SDG-summit to be held at the UN General Assembly Meeting in September in New York is very clear. Halfway on the road to 2030, the end date for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the future looks rather bleak.

Josep Borrell calls for European unity in face of Ukraine war, US-China competition and rise of global south

Colombia was the country in the region with the highest number of murders of LGBT+ people in 2022. Despite legislative advances, there are still high rates of violence and institutional, social and cultural barriers for trans people.

After the political scenario that the last elections showed us, we have been reflecting on how to reach out to people who have not felt called by us. This, without giving up our determination and capacity to question and fight for more democracy in the country, at home and in bed, in all the spaces we inhabit; and to fight for reparation for the victims and survivors of the civil-military dictatorship and the trial and punishment of those responsible.

The European political class as a whole is in a state of denial. Polarization between ideologically different political parties tends to occur in an ever narrowing circle of political views and solutions. There is a clear difference between parties that defend rights and parties that attack rights (in the case of the far right), but is this enough to distinguish the left from the right? It will certainly not be enough to face the two great challenges that question to the limit both the relationship between humanity and nature and human coexistence.

In Argentina, because of its inability or unwillingness to take the necessary measures, out of fear of the anger they might arouse, out of demagoguery, out of ignorance of the seriousness of the crisis, and finally because of a lack of rationality within the government due to the opposition between President Alberto Fernandez (Fernandez: 10 December 2019...) and Vice-President Cristina Kirchner, both Peronists, Argentina is today paying a high price for the economic policy it has pursued in recent years.

Press release from the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and petition to the attention of senators.

The meeting for the Popular Action Plan CPX - Complexo do Alemão showed that Brazil needs to radicalise direct participation. What mechanisms exist? What limits them? How can we build a genuine democracy in response to fascism and the logic of the markets?

The media keep silent about the violence of the Venezuelan opposition and the prevailing repression by the right-wing governments of Latin America. The Right’s strategy of an institutional coup faces serious limits, but the Left must address this new threat, supporting anti-imperialist decisions and making a distinction between the capitalist boycott and the government’s ineffectiveness.

Adhering to social-democratic standards, the post-progressive “critical left” objects to Chavismo, dismissing the danger of a coup, and mistakenly identifying authoritarianism as the main danger. The dogmatists overlook the main enemy and converge with the conservatives or slip toward passive neutrality.

The Right only wants elections it is sure it will win. In these very adverse conditions, the Constituent Assembly re-opens opportunities and points to a re-encounter with radical intellectual thought.

We are experiencing a period of considerable turmoil and great uncertainty. We are probably experiencing a change of epoque, during which old trends try to hold on rigidly, initiating new trends. Antonio Gramsci (the Italian Marxist theorist and politician)’s quote is pertinent: "The old world (...)

‘We need to put the world back on track’! The objective of the SDG-summit to be held at the UN General Assembly Meeting in September in New York is very clear. Halfway on the road to 2030, the end date for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the future looks rather bleak.

In Brazil, fighting the spread of Covid-19 also means fighting President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to deny the seriousness of the virus. In this context, Brazil’s vulnerable populations - including indigenous peoples - are even more affected.