Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
Leo Zeilig’s latest novel is set in the Robert Mugabe-ruled Zimbabwe.
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Leo Zeilig’s novel features a superbly crafted cast of characters. It’s a page turner for readers interested in the profound questions of radical politics and humanity.
An International Women’s Day protest march in Sydney.
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Franklin Ramírez, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Ecuador
First-round voting confirmed that populist president Rafael Correa’s AP movement is still Ecuador’s most powerful political force. But the right is gaining strength.
Thomas Piketty has demonstrated how inequality can be – and has been over time – fundamentally destructive of sustained economic growth.
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The crisis confronting neoliberal capitalism suggests that its internal contradictions are now undermining its very foundations. What can we expect from a post-neoliberal world?
America first, but at what cost?
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Trump’s ‘America first’ rhetoric implies that the internationalism and ‘enlightened self-interest’ that built the postwar order was a big mistake. The evidence and basic economics disagree.
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
Ghana’s Elmina Castle was has been declared a World Heritage Site and renovated as a tourism destination.
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In the era of neoliberal capitalism, both the ideology of Pan-Africanism and the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade have become marketable commodities.
2017 promises to be another tough year as South African universities head into the uncertain terrain of further addressing and healing the divisions that have been exposed.
President-elect Trump and Brexit booster Nigel Farage: two faces of today’s nationalism.
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Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
The South African economy just narrowly escaped a credit rating downgrade but it is not in the clear yet.
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South Africa is breathing a sigh of relief after escaping a credit rating downgrade. But there are still serious concerns around structure of the country’s economy and finances.
Anti-WTO protesters in Seattle, 1999.
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The foundation founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 has done a major revision - it has written off most of his reign as comprising “grand symbolic gestures”.