Ecuador’s neoliberal turn: Corruption and voter fraud behind Julian Assange’s arrest

By Denis Rogatyuk. The scenes of six Metropolitan police officers dragging Wikileaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London as he was clutching a copy of the History of the National Security State by Gore Vidal have sent shockwaves of horror and an avalanche of condemnation from […]

Chavismo’s enduring strength as a political movement in Venezuela

Guest post by Federico Fuentes, Caracas.For many, it is impossible to understand how, despite presiding over the country’s worst economic crisis and facing such intense international and domestic opposition, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro remains in the presidential palace. The answer lies in the enduring strength of Chavismo, a political movement of […]

Kidnapped, murdered and disappeared: journalism can be deadly

Guest post by Nazarena Lomagno. The NGO Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF, Reporters Without Borders) has recently published a report, ‘Worldwide Round-up of journalists killed, detained, held hostage, or missing in 2018’, and its findings are shocking. Over the past year, 80 media professionals were murdered, 348 were arrested, and 60 […]

#MeToo: Women get organised against sexual harassment in the workplace

Guest post by Amelia Martínez Lobo. Over the past several months, workers in the European Parliament have organised a campaign against the sexist harassment and violence that we experience in the absence of guarantees and protection of actionable protocols. The #MeToo movement in the European Parliament has as its fundamental […]

Real democracy means ‘the intrusion of the excluded’

Guest post by Dr John Falzon. “From ancient Greece, we have a name for the intrusion of the Excluded into the socio-political space: democracy.” – Slavoj Zizek She wasn’t asking for somewhere to live. She was just asking for enough money to buy some breakfast. But everyone just kept walking […]