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Fluid sexuality and sexual identity

“Nothing is what it seems”. So goes the Zen Buddhist saying. Karl Marx echoed it with his famous statement: “Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on […]

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Death and life

Do you know the names of your eight great grandparents? Where were they from? What did they do? In three generations or less it is very likely that our names will have been forgotten, but not the consequences of our acts.   Mabel Encinas   The recklessness of contemporary life […]

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Any hope for change rests with the left

As the extreme right extends its reach across the continent, there is an urgent need to entrench a political structure to function as a traditional vanguard, recognizing and summarizing the most urgent needs of social majorities and advancing a future social order that, in its very essence, differs from the present order. The key is to hinder the progress of a right that stubbornly insists on maintaining and strengthening the neoliberal model and international relations that are grossly reliant on metropolitan capitalism.