We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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Left or not? Defining Chile’s new government
As representatives of the administration toy with terminology from social democracy to feminism, HUGO GUZMAN shares a few thoughts in the aftermath of the inauguration of Gabriel Boric as the president of Chile
Chile’s new president Gabriel Boric
Why did so many self-described progressives respond to an anti-semitic attack by questioning the victims, asks JULIA BARD
Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW
A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Art matters because stories, herstories, histories, and even flights of fancy matter, posits MATT KERR
“I BELIEVE that this is a government mainly of the centre-left,” said Camila Vallejo, a member of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) and spokesperson for Gabriel Boric’s office.
Speaking to El Mercurio newspaper, which was subsidised by the CIA in the 1970 and it had its building in Valparaiso set on fire by protesters in October 2019, Vallejo emphasised that the government “has a programme that includes aspects of European social democracy.”
The new minister for the economy, Nicolas Grau, said in an interview with the newspaper Pulso that “our programme could be described mainly as social democratic.”
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