With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
The extreme right is becoming internationalised – the left must be too
Capitalist exploitation and the civilisational crisis are global in nature. The left needs to transcend its frequently localised outlook if its to address the concerns of the exploited sectors worldwide, warns LUIS GARATE
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THE vast majority of sectors critical of capitalism agree that the global capitalist system is in crisis, or at least has serious problems.
On the one hand, the system is embarked on a dizzying race for the development of information technologies and artificial intelligence.
But on the other hand, enormous cracks appear, because its logic of infinite accumulation and exploitation of natural resources is leading the world to an environmental collapse and is causing the concentration of wealth in fewer hands, at the cost of the precariousness of living conditions of millions of people.
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