There is a repeated primitive accumulation throughout the history of capitalism required by capitalist expansion itself, which must commodify not yet commodified spaces in order to develop.
Given the striking contrasts between its upper-class buildings and hillside favelas, Rio de Janeiro is a prime example of a divided city. What effect will the Olympic Games have?
The heavily corporate city Rio has attempted to create, resulting in exacerbated urban problems of spatial, economic and social inequalities, is creating the conditions for Rio as the Singular City.
On Sunday, an armed group seized a Yerevan police station. Their claims have chimed with recent civic initiatives, and reveal how the marginalisation of activism can help fuel the search for more extreme methods. Español, Português
This manifesto was penned by a group of Russian activists and intellectuals about the current political situation in Russia, and what must be done to change it.
Who was the aggressor and who the victim? Who was protecting whom? From whom?
Gradually, the old mechanisms of the oligarchic democracy were reintroduced, including the misalignment between the elite’s representative rights and the participatory rights of people in general.
Despite constant harassment and brutal repression, one by one all sectors of society are expressing their discontent publicly.
We must, without ceding to the old myths of totalitarianism, restore meaning to the ideal of sovereignty.
On the eve of the elections, an audit of the political and social outcomes of the square occupation and the rise of the Podemos party in Spain.
Sunday, June 26, Spanish elections. A new alliance between Podemos and Izquierda Unida aims to unlock the political stalemate that occurred in the last elections. What is the calculation behind it?
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent environmental initiatives reveal the appetite for resistance to the economy of extraction.
