The death of class-based rural movements in Indonesia has entrapped rural resistance in the clutches of market power.
El caso de Brasil sugiere que, para lograr cambios radicales en un contexto de desigualdad estructural y de élites militarizadas, lo que hace falta es más movilización popular. English
El caso de Brasil sugiere que, para lograr cambios radicales en un contexto de desigualdad estructural y de élites militarizadas, lo que hace falta es más movilización popular. English
Can a president institute radical popular change alongside structural inequality and a militarized elite? The Brazilian case suggests that a progressive political party requires more social movement mobilization, not less. Español
Khan’s killing was an act of adjudication over citizenship, culture, gender and life, in a form that’s becoming increasingly widespread in the US, India and through parts of Europe.
Sacrifice zones – abandoned, economically shattered places – are spreading in historically white rural areas and small towns across the United States. Rural decline fosters regressive authoritarian politics.
The war in Afrin starkly highlights how the dynamics of power and resource grabs by the US, Russia, and their regional alliances, have shaped contemporary struggles for life and democracy.
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
Religion, gender dynamics, place and cultural identity – all inform rising authoritarian populism in rural areas, alongside class interests and inequalities. Mobilising alternatives to capture by regressive political forces is not straightforward.
