Catalan Independence: 5 Things to Think About

Headlines and commentary across both Eastern and Western media have mainly focused on the Catalan independence referendum and the actions of Spanish police and the Spanish government’s attempts to disrupt […]

The Gross Dishonesty of the Mainstream Media on Catalonia

Due to social media, the mainstream media can no longer hide what happens. But they can attempt to frame our perceptions of it. What happened yesterday in Catalonia is that […]

Joan Tafalla: “In Catalonia, it is all in the hands of the popular initiative”

The recent years of economic crisis in Spain have had two major consequences in the political landscape: the arrival of progressive political movements and the collapse of the two-party system. […]

Hurricane Irma lays bare France’s Venezuela hypocrisy

Hurricane Irma has just passed through the Caribbean, in a procession of tragedies that have destroyed lives and left material damage behind. In response to this natural disaster, Venezuelan […]

Migrants: obligations and practices in “receiving countries”. The right of asylum under threat

‘Responsible’ wheeler-dealers continue to demand the payment of the debts of the countries in the Global South (the loans have contributed nothing to human and social development), considering that the […]

The 2017 French Elections: A Grim Farce

Renowned Marxist Samir Amin analyses the decline of Western democracy, particularly in France, with very high abstention rates, landslides proclaimed by the media and an unprecedent dictatorship of financial capital. […]

Insights into the French Presidential and Legislative elections: “A mere window dressing”

History goes on…within the institutions of a worn-out Fifth Republic, of course, but especially tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in the businesses, the places of culture, and the street. […]

Russia: a target, not a superpower

The corporate media’s constant use of Cold War terminology to describe the meeting of the U.S. and Russian presidents as a meeting of the “two superpowers” masks the present relationship […]

Bouamama: “There is a France of the dominant and a France of the dominated”

Block the extreme right. Fine. And then? In a context of ideological confusion, Emmanuel Macron has taken centre stage, attached to his podium and displaying his spellbinding ideas: “civil society”; […]

“Greece has been a laboratory on a way out of a capitalist crisis” – interview with Mariana Tsichli

The crisis in Greece has no end in sight. While the media cheered a recent agreement between the Syriza government and creditors, there is no escaping the reality of an […]

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