Washington's primary interest in Nicaragua is not getting rid of Ortega but in preserving the interests of transnational capital in the country and the hegemony of capital over any post-Ortega political project.
While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.
Aníbal Quijano, the renowned Peruvian scholar and one of the founders of Decolonial Studies, died last month at the age of 87. In this text, an introduction to José Carlos Mariátegui’s essential writings on socialist politics and culture, published in 1991 by Fondo de Cultura, Quijano underscores the powerful influence that Mariátegui held over the theoretical development of Latin American critical thought
"We have to come back to the straightforward explanation that this is a society which is structured by racial oppression and has been for its entire history."
The battle for legal abortion in Argentina is the starting point of a much broader struggle.
"We can't decide in the abstract which of any social relations is more determinant in any particular social phenomenon. Some have primacy in particular moments, some come in a particular kind of sequence, but we can't just say: race, class, which one is more important?"
Adam Tooze discusses the causes of the 2007/08 financial crash, comparisons with the Great Depression, the German response during the Eurozone crisis and the geopolitics of the Federal Reserve's crisis management with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
The sea has long been a defining feature, indeed an inevitability in Cuban art, literature, and life. Now it turns ominous.
The arrest and imprisonment of Tommy Robinson turned him into a cause célèbre for the rejuvenated global far-right. Following his release on bail, Eleanor Penny discusses the reaction to his arrest, free speech, and the death cult of the far-right.
Verso presents a reading list to engage with issues concerning the rise of the far-right, and the means of defending against it.
The revelation that Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard disguised himself as a riot cop in order to beat up protestors exposes larger problems with the presidency and policing in France.
If the law is not passed, we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the congress building, because in the street legal abortion is already the law.