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In Chile, the traditional parties collapse 19 May by “New constitution now” Since Sunday night, the Chilean press is piling on the superlatives in its attempt to describe the political earthquake that has shaken the country from the Andes to the Atacama desert to the cold Magallanes region: an electoral shock, the collapse of the traditional parties, a ‘night of the long knives’ for the right, the beginning of the end for Pinochet’s legacy, an enormous defeat for president Sebastián Piñera, a victory for social movements... Chileans voted on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 May ...

Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism 4 May by It was hot outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a young man watched as five men approached him on the porch. “Could we have a drink?” one of them asked. As they finished the water they asked if they could go inside and thank the woman that lived there. The young man led them in the front door. Moments later shots rang out as the men gunned down the young man’s grandmother and environmental organiser, Fikile Ntshangase, and raced out. The death of Ntshangase removed a thorn in the...

Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a serious debt crisis Part 4 In the previous three parts we have observed the evolution of the DCs’ external debt over the last twenty years. The first part shows a dramatic increase of indebtedness, which multiplied by 2.5 with a steep acceleration from 2008 onward. The second part highlights the main threats on the DCs’ external debt, among which the growing significance of bonds, the evolution of interest rates and the depreciation of their currencies against the US dollar. The third part examines the various factors that lure DCs into the de...

Full solidarity with the fight of our comrade Omar Radi who is on hunger strike for almost 2 weeks 22 April by Omar Radi, investigative journalist and human rights activist, has been on hunger strike since April 9 against his continued detention and to demand his immediate release. His state of health is becoming very critical. This is also the case for Soulaiman Raissouni, a journalist known in Morocco for his articles criticizing the regime, in detention since May 2020. Omar Radi is an opponent of despotism and defends body and soul as the cause of his people and their struggles. H...

The IMF Is Using the Debt Crisis to Hollow Out Pakistan’s Sovereignty 20 April by Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan (CC - Wikimedia) Imran Khan’s government came to power in 2018 promising to reorient Pakistan’s economy toward the needs of the population. But faced with a debt crisis it soon dropped its reformist agenda — and now, the International Monetary Fund is pressuring it to place its State Bank permanently beyond democratic control.   Contents   As the Covid-19 crisis continues to wreak havoc, at the end of March UN Secretary General António Guterres called fo...