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The rise of far-right populism in the world – A ‘morbid symptom’ of our times

Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote in his Prison Notebooks, in 1930, that “the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and th

At a Johannesburg BRICS think tank, scholars get drunk on their own rhetoric

By Patrick Bond June 23, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist R

The US-DPRK Singapore Summit was a meaningful step towards peace on the Korean Peninsula

By Marty Hart-Landsberg June 22, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Rene

Liberals are criticizing the Korea Summit from the right. Here’s why they have it all wrong.

By Sarah Lazare June 22, 2018 — Links International Journal of Soci

Is imperialism still imperialist? A response to Patrick Bond

By Walter Daum June 21, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted f

Spanish state: what does the Sánchez cabinet portend?

By Dick Nichols June 20, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — At the June 8 ceremonial hand-over of portfolio briefcases from outgoing People’s Party (PP) ministers to their incoming Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) substitutes, the contrasts were pretty dramatic. A bunch of reactionary lifetime political operators and religious obscurantists were giving way to what new PSOE prime minister Pedro Sánchez boasted was a “progressive”, “feminist” and “Europeanist” alternative. The PSOE leader replaced deposed prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s 15-member ministry of ten men and five women with an 18-member team of 11 women and seven men, easily the most “feminist” in Europe and pushing Sweden (12 women and 11 men) into a distant second place. It also featured two gay ministers, former National High Court senior judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska as interior minister and Máxim Huerta, TV presenter, journalist and novelist, as culture minister.

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