They are sick of being occupied, sick of being exploited, sick of Guantánamo being synonymous with torture the world over

Podemos is the only top electoral contender that shouldn’t immediately trigger the gag reflex of a reasonably principled, socially conscious person

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure

So the real figures behind this extraordinary military force is not how many countries plan to participate, but how many millions – or billions – of dollars Saudi Arabia plans to pay them for their fraternal military assistance

The successes, limitations and possibilities of citizen platforms after their first months in power in cities across Spain

What are we to make of the opposition’s win?

Review of Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of a Democratic Europe, by Pablo Iglesias

The idea that a social Europe could emerge by quitting the EU is a delusion. There are no quick fixes for neoliberalism

Venezuela’s Communist Party  (PCV) and trade unions have asked the country’s president Nicolas Maduro to approve a law for workers’ control before…

“I see a lot of backslapping, a lot of self-congratulation, and I see very little in terms of the actual substance that is required to avert climate breakdown”

Is there a grassroots-activist antidote to last week’s attacks by carbon-addicted UN negotiators?

This is the most important legacy of Spain. If there is to be any alternative, it will only exist because those who don’t benefit from the current system fight to bring a new one into being

The Future Belongs to Renewables

ABC World News has given one minute to Bernie Sanders this year (actually, it is just 20 seconds). It has given 81 minutes to Donald Trump

Until governments undertake to keep fossil fuels in the ground, they will continue to undermine the agreement they have just made

Even Chavistas are fed up with the economic crisis and want change. But unlike the right, grassroots leaders are calling for more popular control and collective decision-making.

If someone cannot explain something in plain English, then we should question whether they really do themselves understand what they profess

Social-justice movements can’t just be oppositional. They have to craft narratives of a better society based on economic and political democracy

Now is the moment for post-Chávez Chavismo to reinvent itself by forging a new revolutionary quality

This period in history is a celebration of intersectionality, which mandates that the full breadth of our humanity be acknowledged and embraced