By Cira Pascual Marquina on August 15, 2023
Communal assembly at the Chávez -Bolívar Commune in Carache. (Voces Urgentes)
Ramón Grosfoguel is a Puertorican intellectual recognized for his work on the decolonization of knowledge and power. In part one of this interview, Grosfoguel talked about the continuity between the colonial and the neocolonial system in Venezuela. In part two, we discuss Venezuela’s options in terms of an economic model, and about the commune being the only real way for the revolution to survive. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on August 26, 2023
Fidel with Stella Calloni
In reality the Cultural Battle began with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959. There is nothing similar in history: an island in the Caribbean surrounded by dictatorships defeats a dictator imposed by the United States and achieves the surrender of the army and the police, subdued by the empire, while the economic power, the partners and mafias of that power fled to Miami. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 24, 2023
world leaders attending the BRICS Summit in South Africa. photo: Alejandro Azcuy
The BRICS group, an alliance of leading emerging economies formed by Brazil, Russia, India, and China in June 2009 with South Africa coming on board in 2010, concluded its first face-to-face meeting on Thursday after three years of impasse due to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. From August 22-24, Johannesburg, South Africa, was the scene of key discussions in an ever-changing geopolitical landscape. (more…)
August 24, 2023
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro participated this Wednesday, August 23, in the XV Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Brics, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an activity called “Brics+ Rapprochement Dialogue”. This is the first time that Venezuela participates in the meeting of the emerging political cooperation bloc. (more…)
By Dailenis Guerra Pérez on August 23, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
There are many ways to refer to Cuban women. There were mambizas, clandestines, guerrillas. Today you find them federated, since August 23, 1960. Our founding date of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) led by Vilma Espin. (more…)
By Germán Van de Velde on August 24, 2023
August 16, 2023, Central American University becomes Casimiro Sotelo National University. Photo: Canal 4
The Jesuits founded the now-defunct Central American University (UCA) in the 1960s. Headquartered in Managua, it was the first private university to be created in Central America. Intellectuals from a diverse array of religious affiliations participated in this project. (more…)
August 22, 2022
Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interviews Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research on the significance of the BRICS taking place in South Africa right now. (more…)
By Pepe Mateos, on August 21, 2023.
The Third Malón de la Paz in Buenos Aires
The Third Malón de la Paz (Third March for Peace) arrived in Buenos Aires on August 1st after traveling half the country and since that day they have been waiting in front of the Argentina Supreme Court to explain their complaints against the institutional violence that the province of Jujuy is experiencing after the reform of the provincial Constitution by Governor Gerardo Morales. (more…)