Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard look behind the Republican Party’s victory in the United States election, why the Democratic Party lost and the challenges ahead.
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Federico Fuentes sat down with sociologist Malfred Gerig from the Central University of Venezuela to discuss the United States’ sanctions on Venezuela in the context of the country’s “Long Depression”.
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A controversial and divisive bill that aims to undermine the rights of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Māori people had its first reading and brought parliament to a halt, reports Zara Lomas.
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About 1 million workers across Peru went on strike to demand that the government act against rising violence and extortion at the hands of organised criminal groups, reports Ben Radford.
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Several hundred people marched through the southern Ecuadorean city of Cuenca to protest the Ibero-American Summit, reports Ben Radford.
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Boeing workers in the United States voted to accept a deal and end their seven-week-long strike, reports Malik Miah.
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While electric cars are often touted as the future of transport and a crucial part of the effort to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions, in reality they are not a meaningful solution, argues Ben Radford.
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Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo has described rich countries’ plans to expand fossil fuels as a “death sentence” for his country. Zara Lomas looks at Pacific Island states’ push for a international treaty to phase out fossil fuels.
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Venezuelan officials have responded with threats and accusations to recent statements from Brazil and Colombia reaffirming their refusal to recognise any new president unless election results are published, reports Federico Fuentes.
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More than two months after the passing of a 30-day legal deadline, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has still not published the full results of the July 28 presidential election, prompting a court appeal, reports Federico Fuentes.
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In an all-too-familiar action, Turkey’s interior ministry removed three democratically elected co-mayors from three Kurdish-majority cities — Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Elîh) and Halfeti (Xelfêtî) — and replaced them with state-appointed trustees, reports Peter Boyle.
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In the second part of our interview, Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, speaks to Federico Fuentes about opposition to United States imperialism and the left’s appraisal of the Nicolás Maduro government in Venezuela.