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The Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic: How a Social Movement Feeds a Nation

In Perspective The significance of the MST in Brazil has been most noticeable during the pandemic. In a country that lost more than 684.000 people to a disease brought by plane through the wealthy elite, in a society where racialized and sexualized bodies are always the most vulnerable, it was (and still is) extremely important to find solidarity between the country and the city

2001 as a Murmur, Looting as a Project, and New Promises for Social Change

In Perspective Can Argentine's capitalism in crisis overcome the structural limits that have led it to this situation?

By Mariano Féliz

The Struggles against Authoritarianism in Brazil: An Interview with Raimundo Bonfim of “Out Bolsonaro!”

Interview Raimundo Bonfim, national coordinator of the Centre of People’s Movements (CMP), talks about the current political situation in Brazil and gives perspectives on the struggle against Bolsonaro and the challenges currently posed to the Brazilian left.

The Crisis of Brazilian Universities: higher education under Bolsonaro

Interview The attack on science and knowledge production is known to be one of the main elements of the rise of the authoritarian right in the past decade. As one of the main global expressions of contemporary authoritarianism, Jair Bolsonaro is no exception to that

By Pedro Salgado

Food systems, climate denialism and environmental activism in the Global South under COVID-19

In Perspective In our first debate on political ecology, Pedro Magalhães (Brazil) discusses with Boaventura Monjane (Mozambique), Sabrina Fernandes (Brazil), and Saker El Nour (Egypt) from the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) on food systems, environmental activism and climate denialism in the Global South