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The nightmare of the hybrid?

A hybrid―neither fully one, nor the other, but inheriting something from each parent. Yet persuading themselves, out of the necessity of coping, that they are one or the other.   Nigel Pocock   Under Caribbean slavery, the mixed-race people looked ‘upwards’ (ironically so-called), towards the white plantocracy. Today mixed race […]

Comments In Focus Latin America

Argentina prepares to go to the polls

With just a few months to go before Argentina’s elections, powerful groups are looking to shake the table and see if everything comes crashing down, provoking a deep social crisis    Glenda Arcia   According to analyst Luis Bruschtein, Argentinian President Alberto Fernández’s decision not to seek re-election in the […]

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The ideological orphaning of the left

It is the left’s most worrying problem. Its two most important reference points, communism and social democracy, have suffered a profound crisis since the fall of the USSR and of so-called ‘really existing socialism’ in Eastern Europe along with the neoliberal model’s predominance in a Western Europe which has put an end to the so-called welfare state.