Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A quick glance at the Twitter timeline, for example, makes it easy to identify hate speech. Mario Múñoz Lozano Racism, xenophobia, sexism, rejection of the poor, neo-Nazi slogans multiply […]
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Participatory Budgeting or the people taking back control
Very few local councils in England allow their residents a say in how they spend their taxes. The Labour Party leadership has said nothing about a model of local democracy widely used in Europe and the Americas. Here is the history and here is how it empowers the people. Accountability and Transparency are essential to PB.
Latin America’s homicide hotspots
Brutal fights to control lucrative criminal economies have led specific provinces and cities across Latin America to have sky-high homicide rates, far above national averages. Chris Dalby y Peter Appleby* In Mexico, the state of Colima has been battered by an ongoing war to control nascent synthetic drug […]
Corporate media are PR for the Western pro-Nazi war machine
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts. Dorset Eye / Jonathan Cook The hypocrisy gets starker by the day. The same western media that strains to warn of the dangers of disinformation […]
Social movements and the return to developmentalism
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.
















