The neoliberal currents of recent decades have meant a return (in other conditions) to the system of classic dependency. The ruin of these national producers in the countryside and the city contrasts with the strengthening of bourgeois sectors dedicated to exploiting the benefits of “extractivism”, which basically repeats those colonial relations of yesteryear.
Europe
Prague: a picturesque survivor
Down the narrow, cobblestoned back-streets beats the heart of a Bohemian nation. Surviving occupations from the Habsburg Empire to the Nazis, Prague is a city whose history is as diverse as the stunning architecture that tells its story. – Georgina Campbell Indulgence in a liberal, unconventional lifestyle defines the […]
Elections in Spain: Unite or fascism returns
Last week, the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for general elections to be held on the 23rd of July. Under the current economic crisis, the war and the rise of xenophobia, a government including the far-right Party Vox would diminish Spanish democracy.
The Europe we want
Some talk about the risk of Islamisation of the continent and the danger that a Muslim presence poses for Western society. Others see immigration as an emerging threat. Claudio Chipana* According to British historian, Eric Hobsbawm, Europe had a short 20th Century, starting with the First World War […]
The right’s popular support, a weakness for the left
The dominant class in Latin America and other countries represents a very small percentage of the population but manages to assemble in its defence social groups of some importance. But it also has the support of popular sectors which for various reasons adopt that oligarchy’s slogans.