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1. Five reasons why radical right candidate Javier Milei could win Argentina’s presidential elections

   rate exceeding 100%, rising crime and increased precarisation of the workforce. These factors have ... combined to generate a drastic reduction in living standards, greater inequality and a four-fold rise in ... precipitated the rise of Kirchnerism. Four: Milei’s discourse struck a chord with one-third of voters, and ...

2. Spain: Right blasts education reform as threat to ‘freedom’, ‘pluralism’

   shook, as scores of deputies pounded their desks and chanted “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” on November 19. ... espousing “freedom of choice”. More Plural’s petition against the Celaá law has already gathered 1.8 million ... Sandra Moneo, “a genuine outrage that damages the most basic principles of rights and freedoms enshrined ...

3. Moving beyond ‘No New Cold War’

   one weaponising the discourse of freedom and democracy and the other anti-imperialism and peace. ... everywhere. Socialists must work to combat rising geopolitical tensions. But the ultimate solution is also not ... times: climate change, rising authoritarianisms, economic precarity, etc. The last time the US and ...

4. Algeria: Environmental activist takes on Australian mining company

   last November, said: “Whereas the global temperature rise in the twentieth century was 0.74°C, it was ... rise.” Due to its geographical location, Algeria is “one of the 24 hotspots that are highly vulnerable to ... an end to repression and intimidation and to respect freedom of expression. Algeria August 10, 2023 ...

5. The rise of the alt-right: How rebellious became synonymous with anti-leftist

   Far right Pablo Stefanoni Federico Fuentes alt-right The rise to power of “alt-right” presidents ... who has spent the past two decades writing about the rise of the new left in Latin America, turns his ... rebellion and what the left can do about it. How do you explain the rise of these new, contestatorial, ...

6. Malaysia: Crackdown on press freedom protects old kleptocracy, PSM warns

   Anti-racism Asia & the Pacific Democracy Peter Boyle Corruption media freedom The latest ... five reader comments on an article published online. This is a major test of freedom of the press in ... for the rise of the BERSIH mass democracy movement. Sivarajan told GL that the judiciary has always ...

7. Rise up for World Kobane Day

   1. World Kobane Day was initiated by the Kurdish Freedom Movement and its supporters at the time of ... Kobane turned the tide against IS and made the freedom fighters of the YPG, YPJ and SDF international ...

8. Netherlands: The rise and rise of the Dutch Socialist Party

   house). Its nearest rival, the ruling neoliberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), is ... immigration into Holland as the key factor in the decline of Dutch social cohesion. Socialist party rises The ... facilitating the rise of the SP has been the Dutch electoral system. Proportional representation applies at all ...

9. Meloni’s victory in Italy spurs the far right

   migrants Malik Miah Barry Sheppard rise of the far right sanctions against Russia energy crisis 2022 ... Freedom Party. Leaders of the Republican Party in the United States were also enthused. Meloni addressed ...

10. Iraq: A fight for freedom and national identity for all

    significance of the Iraqi movement is enormous, as it seeks to fight for the freedom of Iraq from control and ... Iraqi revolutionaries have made clear, both verbally and with slogans, that they want complete freedom ... “The Iraqi uprising has also awakened the people of Lebanon and Iran from a dormant state to rise up ...

11. Dying by degrees: Labor’s uni review too little too late

    highly coveted, private full fee-paying students enjoy any real freedom of study and career choice, ... 91������̳ Young people left out by Labor’s budget Rising inflation threatens big student debt increases ...

12. United States: India's Modi receives a royal welcome

    press freedom in his country, has never held a solo news conference and often avoids questions by ... 2023 World Press Freedom Index, India sits at 161, a scant three places above Russia,” she continued. ... “Its position on the Academic Freedom Index has nose-dived” and “the Freedom in the World index has ...

13. XR Drum Rebellion’s ‘Prisoner Parade’ challenges NSW anti-protest laws

    years’ imprisonment. Richard Boult, an arrestee at the Rising Tide protest against coal in April, told ... limited freedom of movement, precluded contact with friends and colleagues, required the wearing of ...

14. Pakistan: The rise of a politics of resistance in Hunza

    proverbial “Northern Areas”. It is rising from the Hunza Valley, which lies under the shadow of the ... Hussain’s historic martyrdom shifted into roaring slogans calling for the prisoners’ freedom. Sheikh Musa ...

15. In Chile, having a good constitution doesn’t guarantee social change

    constitution in 2022. They also have to contend with the rise of the right-wing, which now holds offices in the ... based on freedom of expression, all opinions are equally valid”. In contrast, she said: “There is no ...

16. The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right

    Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right By Jane Mayer New York, Anchor Books, 2017 Jane Mayer’s Dark ... Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right reveals how a small ... sugar coat your ideology with duplicitous language, using words like “wellbeing”, “freedom” and ...

17. Ruling elite regroups while Sri Lankans drown in debt and austerity

    2022 and this is projected to rise to US$64 billion or 79% of GDP by 2026. The main creditors are in ... unions, along with middle-class professionals, staged numerous strikes in March against a rise in income ... tax. They also demanded lower bank interest rates, in a context of rising costs of living. Port workers ...

18. Turkish armed drones assassinate women political leaders in Rojava

    difficult under the threat of attack, and there has been speculation that the rise in attacks is a response ... of ISIS. The rise in attacks has also coincided with the latest round of talks on the future of ... freedom of speech and assembly; there are new references to the earthquake and earthquake relief; and an ...

19. Senegal: Violent clashes as protesters stare down president

    authorities to “end the repression against protesters and critics, and guarantee freedom of assembly”. Mucahid ... a path of rising authoritarianism, or, following the strong and powerful public pushback, there will be ...

20. Sudan: Local organising central to responding to war and humanitarian crisis

    negotiations with the Forces for Freedom and Change — a wing of the civilian democratic movement — when the ... displaced. Background image: UNHCR. Inset: Maysoon Elnigoumi Sudan solidarity rally: 'We will rise ...

21. The pandemic didn’t just increase inequality between classes, it increased it within the working class

    Healthcare Housing Workers & unions Fred Fuentes cost-of-living rises Wages inflation Home ... June 1 once again confirm that inequality is rising. During the 12 months to March, corporate profits ... a decline due to rising inflation. These trends are not new. There has been a steady decline in workers’ ...

22. Narendra Modi in Australia: down under bliss for Hindutva

    consume and their rites of worship. Modi’s rule has also been accompanied by a rise of the perceived ...  presenter David Koch, had reduced press freedoms, discriminated against minorities and was “accused of ...

23. Myanmar's spring revolution and the Rohingya genocide

    hardships and also the ongoing denial of freedom and other basic rights in the country [away from the ... fear what they perceive as the rise of global Muslim power — that kind of language which reinforced the ...

24. ‘No to expansion of US military forces on Philippines soil’

    about the EDCA and rising militarism in the region. * * * What is your response to the Enhanced Defence ... that the international community remains stable and to allow for freedom of movement of international ...

25. Gen F'd: Young workers need to organise and fight back

    rate rises with age, at a certain point they are thrown on the scrap heap by “the most profitable ... lie in identity politics. She insists that the rise of the internet has assisted these developments by ... was the new terrain for human freedom”. Finally, Pennington elaborates that “[u]sing neoliberal ideas, ...

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