Articles published in Left on the Move in the last 15 days about popular rebellion in Nicaragua, Lopez Obrador's victory in Mexico, DSA growth with Alexandria Ocasio in NY, elections in Pakistan and Turkey.
Editorial of the Movimento Magazine presents a contribution to the programmatic debates under development in the campaign of Guilherme Boulos and Sônia Guajajara for the presidency in Brazil.
Under Ortega, the exploitative maquiladora industry has rapidly expanded in free-trade zones, where more than 100,000 mostly young women stitch clothing for Asian and North American corporations and their Nicaraguan subcontractors.
The elections held on 24 June in Turkey confirmed the one-man rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and caused more disappointment than the previous ones. Several factors had created a wave of hope amongst supporters of the broader opposition parties that the ruling party would do less well this time.
Most parties in Pakistan have progressive, humane manifestos, but they don’t pay heed to them once they’re elected. What makes AWP unique is that it has strong central committees in the provinces and an even stronger federal committee at the centre.
The final declaration of the summit also ensures that means will be provided to "derail the incentives that push people to embark". In the light of what has been decided, we can only conclude that this is not right.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory is a shot across the bow of the Democratic machine. Here's how it happened.
The struggle now will be between AMLO, the moderately reformist politician, the Mexican capitalist class, and the country’s working people. One should not rule out the possibility that the electoral victory will raise the hopes of working people and put pressures on AMLO to deliver more than he intends.
The democratic sectors and the left as a whole must speak out immediately against repression. Human rights organizations and activists must do the same. Managua from July 2018 can not be alone!
Neoliberalism cannot survive except through authoritarianism and repression.
The Awami Workers Party believes that a politics based on a progressive vision of society is not only possible but utterly necessary.
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