Carnival of Corruption May Leave Back Door Open for the Return of Rousseff
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos says the current domino effect of corruption is wiping out the political leadership class includes the minister of Transparency The Real News Network 12 Jun 2016
Dave Zirin on the Whitewashing of Muhammad Ali: He Wasn’t Against Just War, But Empire
Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, joins us from Muhammad Ali’s hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, where he will attend Ali’s funeral. Democracy Now 10 Jun 2016 Zirin recounts Ali’s activism against racism…
Proposta do Tribunal Ético Internacional-Fórum Social Mundial (TEI-FSM)/Proposal IEC-FSM
Há quase quinze dias propus a constituição do Tribunal Ético Internacional (TEI) do Fórum Social Mundial (FSM). A ideia seria criar uma instituição permanente do Conselho Internacional (CI) do FSM cuja primeira sessão…
Choice, Agency and the Naming of Names – The Trap of ‘Immediate Identities’ and the Vision of a Democratic Revolution
Every struggle goes through highs and lows. The students who are part of the movements that are spreading out of universities in India – Hyderabad Central University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jadavpur University…
The Most Honest Politician in Latin America Will Be Removed By the Most Corrupt
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos says Brazil’s Supreme Court is able to intervene on procedural grounds in Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, not on the merits of the case The Real News 10 May 2016
Judgment Day: On black rapists and white innocence
That a judge in post-apartheid South Africa has to use terminology that harkens back to a centuries-old stereotype about black male sexual danger should tell us something about ourselves. That she feels confident…
Brazilian Senate to Vote on President Rousseff’s Impeachment
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos looks at why Rousseff’s impeachment is a highly political process and not a legal one and how this “legislative coup” can be compared to others in recent Latin…
Asylum seekers in Denmark: Manifesto – For the right to have rights
The increased criminalization of asylum seekers, immigrants, refugees and Muslims in Denmark is part of a bigger, global problem that will not solve itself. It will only be solved through our struggle for…
Rebellion as contagion: What the High Court possibly meant when it spoke of an infection
An insight into what happens when a harmonious society of ‘obedient students’ and ‘patriotic citizens’ witnesses a disruption. Scroll.in Aman Sethi 05 Mar 2016 Justice Pratibha Rani grants bail to Kanhaiya Kumar: Whenever…
The Struggle for Human Dignity Continues in the Shadow of Death
Life is always difficult in the shacks. If you are poor and black you can be killed with impunity. Abahlali basemjondolo press statement 12 Feb 2016 But it is not only the politicians…
