We won’t know until the July 2018 elections whether
this radical redrawing of the Cambodian political landscape is a ‘new normal’ of naked
authoritarianism. What is
happening is truly bad.
In
Turkey the Islamist right garners support in rural areas by promoting social
welfare and subsidy programmes. The left needs to put farmers and workers at
the centre of class-based struggle.
There are radical
responses to Trumpism in rural and working class white communities. The story
of one of them, called Redneck Revolt, reveals important lessons for the US
left.
‘Authoritarian
corpopulism’ relies on persuasion and selective violence, cloaked in the rule
of law and backed by the state, to advance big business agriculture and
resource extraction.
Rural Russians are the major supporters of the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin. How can we explain this phenomenon, and what are the prospects for a replacement emancipatory rural politics?
The need for a new narrative to counter authoritarian
populism, one that is popular, inclusive and progressive was a common call – also
cross-class, intersectional and human rights grounded.
Like all good propagandists, CA’s currency is emotion: not only hopes and dreams, but fear and loathing.
What is the transformative potential that
emerges from these struggles around land?
The results of the recent
legislative elections only reinforce the authoritarian and militarised model of
the last 16 years. What is peace?
It is delusional to expect that this unfettered
racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though, most
‘indigenous’ ethnic organizations are silent on the ongoing crisis.
The death of class-based rural
movements in Indonesia has entrapped rural resistance in the clutches of market
power.
Can a president institute radical popular change alongside structural
inequality and a militarized elite? The Brazilian case suggests that a
progressive political party requires more social movement mobilization, not
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