the political economy of mexico's drug war

Mexico continues to be a major exporter of heroin and marijuana and a central transshipment point for cocaine from Andean South America bound for the United States. ... Since the 1900s, the United States has intervened covertly and overtly to enforce drug prohibition south of the..

debating the russian revolution and its relevance

In contrast to more recent and truly inspiring efforts that seemed to promise liberating breakthroughs (the anti-apartheid revolution in South Africa, the Zapatista insurgency in Mexico, the “pink tide” in Latin America, Syriza in Greece, the Brazilian Workers Party, etc.), what Rosa..

1968: 50 years since the global revolt

This issue includes an article by Mexican socialist Manuel Aguilar Mora revisiting Mexico’s 1968, the student movement, and the massacre at Tlatelolco fifty years ago. South African historian Heike Becker explores in her article the struggles of students and youth on the African continent..

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