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A Dialogue with Edicio dela Torre: On Democratization

As founder and president of the Education for Life Foundation, Edicio dela Torre synthesizes and applies Paulo Freire’s dialogical and problem-posing approaches, N.F.S. Grundtvig’s folk school, and Filipino psychology and traditions towards grassroots empowerment for social justice, human rights, and…

The national strike advances steadily in Tungurahua

A collaboration by: Patricio Ávila López (text and photo) The growing wave of demonstrations that Ecuador is experiencing in response to high fuel prices and the consequent inflation of basic necessities; the lack of medicines in hospitals and other social…

The People Of Ukraine Have Been Severely Betrayed By The US

When A War Is Unsuccessful The war in Ukraine is a multifaceted disaster. If you haven’t heard or if you haven’t accepted that pretty much everything has gone terribly wrong for Ukraine, the US and NATO in this war then…

The replacement generation

The young people who mobilised on 18-O have given new hope to society. They were able to bring together a large majority of people who had previously been absent from political life. They are those who are now in government…

The nuances of the concept of inclusion in the Chilean Constitutional Convention

The enthusiasm with which 80% of Chileans democratically won a Constitutional Convention was flooded with content, ideas, values and proposals for a climate of rights, liberty and solidarity. At my age, in this process, I learned new conceptions of “inclusion”…

Tiempo Robado editoras launches “Wages for Domestic Work. Chronicle of an international feminist struggle (1972-1977)”.

Tiempo Robado editoras will launch the book “Salario para el trabajo doméstico. Crónica de una lucha feminista internacional (1972-1977)” by Louise Toupin, with its first translation into Spanish by Soledad Rojas and Claudia Marchant on Wednesday 29 June at 18.30…

Libya Looking to Move on

The final round of negotiations between the two opposing administrations in Libya have been taking place this week in Cairo. Under the auspices of Stephanie Williams, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Libya, representatives from the Tripoli-based High Council of…

A glimpse of the Chin State and Beyond: One Year after the Military Coup in Myanmar 

PART ONE: MYANMAR BEFORE AND DURING THE 2021 COUP     By PEN Background Since the coup seized power in 2021, the military announced a state of emergency for one year, extended it up to 2023 and established the so-called…

More power to the police, less rights for citizens: is Brazil really a democratic state?

As I write this text, my heart trembles with pain, fear, and a sense of impotence… Under the justification of “establishing a minimum standard of conduct for citizens during a police approach”, federal deputy Bibo Nunes (PL-RS) presented bill 5610/2019,…

How little we know about Chile’s history (II)

The Political Constitution of 1925 not only had a completely anti-democratic origin – as we saw in Part I – but also had an extremely authoritarian-presidential character. In contrast to the de facto political system existing between 1891 and 1925…

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