The Answer is DEMOCRACY
The Greek people will decide
To authoritarianism and harsh austerity, we will respond with democracy, calmly and decisively.
Alexis Tsipras
27 June, 2015
News
Mexican activists in São Paulo
Ayotzinapa's Caravana 43 circulates through South America
The Caravana 43 has crossed through Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In each of their appearances, they begin by situating their struggle to find the 43 forcibly disappeared students in the context of a systematic effort in Mexico to normalize violence against indigenous people, campesinos, activists
Armando Carmona
23 June, 2015
TTIP: Why the World Should Beware
This booklet delivers facts and arguments why TTIP is threat not only for the EU and the US, but for the whole world. Ultimately TTIP would serve as an instrument to the economic and political elites of the West to maintain their hegemonic power and
Working paper by Manuel Pérez-Rocha
09 June, 2015
On the occasion of Galeano’s death
Eduardo Galeano on Rosa Luxemburg …
... and other women who refused to live in silence and be consigned to oblivion
Eduardo Galeano
28 April, 2015
TTIP – The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The main goal of the TTIP treaty currently being negotiated in secret between the EU and the USA is to remove regulatory "barriers" which restrict the potential profits to be made by transnational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic. The "barriers" are in reality
John Hilary
24 March, 2015
Approximation between Cuba and the US
When pigs fly
It was a real sensation: On 17 December 2014, when the heads of state of Cuba and the United States announced their intention to normalize relations between the two states, which had been frozen for over a half century, the global public reacted with surprise.
William M. LeoGrande and Jenny Morín Nenoff
09 February, 2015
Sexual violence
Brazil’s Truth Commission details extent of rape during military dictatorship
Brazil’s National Truth Commission took testimony and detailed the use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon against those the dictatorship considered to be political and social activists or otherwise subversive.
Danica Jorden
21 January, 2015
FROM OUR SOCCER BOOK
South Africa was not a Fifa success story
South Africa’s experience in June-July 2010 was mixed, with huge long-term financial deficits and a distorted, short-lived psychological improvement in the wake of the world’s main soccer tournament.
Patrick Bond
28 September, 2014
Degrowth Conference 2014
Beyond the imperative of growth
Many analyses from various scientific disciplines imply that a growth-based economic and social system cannot have a future. From September 2-6, 2014, a conference in the German city of Leipzig will tackle this topic.
02 September, 2014
documentary on chemicals in agriculture
The Poison is on the Table II
After the impact of the first film, "The Poison Is On The Table II" updates and goes deeper on the evil consequences for public health, caused by the use of chemicals in agriculture.
21 August, 2014