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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have proposed constitutional changes and legislation that would for the first…
(Translation By Özlem Ilyas Tolunay; Turkish version here.) Oguzhan Müftüoglu was born in Anamur, Turkey in 1944. He joined the Revolutionary Youth…
Mexican teachers, particularly in the south of the country, have joined a regional rebellion of rank-and-file teachers that erupted in violence in…
In a major event that will have a serious impact on Mexican politics and labor unions, Elba Esther Gordillo, who for more…
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The election last week of Xi Jinping to the chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), together with six others who with…
Book review of: Michael Staudenmaier. Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986. Oakland: AK Press, 2012. Bibliography, index. 387 pages.…
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