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It’s been five years since the massive occupation of May 15, 2011 that gave birth to the movement of los indignados, known as the 15M movement, followed by five years … Keep reading »

South African President Jacob Zuma‘s budget speech delivered on 4 May 2016 was yet another missed opportunity to look the South African public in the eye and be frank about … Keep reading »

Paul Kellogg interviewed by Robin Chang on Escape from the Staples Trap A concrete understanding of contemporary Canadian economic development depends in part on a grasp of the current institutional … Keep reading »

A Country Report from a Meeting of Left Trade Unionists in European For a long time, Norway has represented an exception in Europe and the word. The main reason has … Keep reading »

Social Activism in the Age of Individualism Toronto — 22 April 2016. A new generation of activists working for economic and environmental justice, and against war and poverty, confronts critical … Watch video »

Interview With João Pedro Stédile The economist and leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil, Joao Pedro Stédile, affirmed that left-wing forces won’t allow the Parliamentarian right to … Keep reading »

“U.S. Empire’s Decline”: Spectre or Social Fact? For readers immersed in the annals of Empire, it is well known that the United States is no ordinary country in the world … Keep reading »

There are things. And there are conditions of existence of things. In India, as in all countries of the world, many social problems exist. Close to 700 million Indians do … Keep reading »

Last December members of the International Trade Union Confederation joined other civil society activists in a mass sit-in at the COP21 talks in Paris. Unionists and their allies, some 400 … Keep reading »

Toronto — 3 April 2016. Gerardo Hernández is one of the three of the Cuban Five who had been behind bars since 1998, until U.S. President Obama freed them on … Watch video »

Unions representing nearly 40,000 Verizon workers have announced plans to hit the picket lines on April 13, in what would be one of the largest strikes in the U.S. in … Keep reading »

Since the 1980s, Brazil’s Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) has been one of the largest political parties of the left in Latin America. It has held power at the … Keep reading »