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The other Germany

Spy movies evoke East Berlin as a sinister place from where people try to escape, a dystopian enclave with a dreaded security service, the Stasi.   Sean Sheehan   What tends to get forgotten is the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) the country born in 1949 and where close to […]

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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.