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South Africa assumes the presidency of the G20 with a unique opportunity to transform the international order. To make the most of that opportunity, though, it must avoid the pitfalls that have bedeviled presidencies past.

“Sheinbaum’s unprecedented victory represents a defeat for the Mexican opposition that will be very difficult to overcome”

Professor José Miguel Ahumada and I write for the Law & Political Economy project about the case of Próspera Inc. versus the State of Honduras — and its implications of international trade law worldwide.

Misty Rebik (Chief of Staff for Sen. Bernie Sanders) and I just returned from a delegation to Brazil, Chile and Colombia. Each country is still seeking answers about the history of US intervention.

Interview with El Diario (Spain) on the insurrection in Brazil's Three Powers Plaza and the rise of reactionary forces across the hemisphere.

Latin America’s regional integration promises to make the region more resilient to pandemics, extreme weather, and geopolitical turmoil. The U.S. should recognize a potential partner—not a threat.

Brazil’s president has long sought a multipolar global order and now pledges to ‘have relations with everyone.’

The US constitution used to be considered a model for democracies around the world. Now, Chile has shown the way to a new constitutional order.

On the victory of Gustavo Petro, the architecture of political violence in Colombia, and the direction of the new Pink Tide across Latin America.

The IMF claims to deliver stability, strength, and solidarity. Its record shows the opposite

Left-wing governments are being elected across Latin America, but they face the threat of a rejuvenated and authoritarian right.

The US embargo impacts every aspect of life on the island – and that is the precisely the point

The Organization of American States is no longer credible. We need a new body if we are to protect democracy

US tax dollars helped create the Moderna vaccine – and 59% of Americans say Moderna should share its vaccine technology with manufacturers worldwide

Mass household indebtedness is a key feature of financialized capitalism, driving insecurity and sustaining poverty around the world. Could a union of debtors join forces to agitate for the abolition of all consumer debt?

To undo the damage Trump has wrought at home and abroad, the US must move beyond outdated foreign policy ideas

Taking on Amazon will require us to take stock of its global infrastructure, and to reclaim it. Our organizing must stretch across the global economy and the regulatory archipelago that runs through it.

La Internacional progresista, que agrupa a partidos, sindicatos y movimientos sociales de todo el mundo, celebra su primera cumbre para cartografiar la crisis, reclamar un futuro compartido y fortalecer un frente planetario

Following the recent election victory for Luis Arce and the Movement Towards Socialism in Bolivia, the Democracy Industry was quick to proclaim this as a victory for democracy itself. In this article, David Adler argues that by doing so, liberals overlook the historic power of workers in the fight against authoritarianism.

A new global initiative with a mission to unite, organize and mobilize progressive forces around the world.

With popular support for the EU on the rise, a left-wing exit no longer looks feasible. So where do we go from here?

PI Council members on the uprising in the United States and around the world.

As captives of an aggressive short-termism, EU elites lack an external threat to stabilise their mode of rule. They see too little opportunity in crises. History, we write, does not impose reason on them.

Virtually overnight, Italians have shifted from dismissive cynicism of their national government to a blind and trusting devotion – even as the nation has shut down and residents have been shut in.

The Dutch-led opposition to a ‘coronabond’ to raise funds for nations hardest-hit by the pandemic is self-defeating

The IMF, not the US, should use its powers to make sure poor nations can afford to beat the coronavirus.

Because Germany imports so little, other countries go into debt to pay for its exports. Higher pay could turn this around

Having squandered the last crisis, we cannot make the same mistakes again. A Green New Deal is the only reasonable response

The Commission’s political constraints will ensure it gets watered down.

In the race for European Parliament, politics are going transnational — and threatening the union from within.

To say that von der Leyen was ‘nominated’ by the Council and then ‘elected’ by the Parliament is a stretch. It may be more accurate to say the EU’s new leaders were ‘coronated’, much like after a papal conclave. They weren’t put to a public test, but selected in an atmosphere of intergovernmental informality.

Alexis Tsipras and his party promised ‘hope is coming’, then refashioned his government as a rightwing force

As climate protests sweep across Europe, neoliberals are misusing the name “Green New Deal” to push new kinds of market incentives.

Several countries have proposed their own versions of a Green New Deal, but climate change knows no borders. We need a global response.

Rather than trusting unaccountable bureaucrats, such as Macron suggests, our New Deal would empower citizens

The Labour leadership champions “internationalism in one country” — but hardening borders won’t benefit workers.

The UN security council, the IMF, the World Bank and the ILO were conceived as agencies of change – they can be again

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Many people use anti-Zionism as a Trojan Horse for their anti-Semitism. But in case of contemporary Britain, I argue, many others are using a crusade against anti-Semitism as its own Trojan Horse for an uncritical Zionism.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s victory in Sunday’s election signals new hope for Mexico. But implementing his radical programme may result in a severe backlash both at home and abroad.

International observers are in a panic about Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and the “death of Mexican democracy.” But Mexican democracy is already in critical condition. AMLO is the country’s best chance to revive it.

Original research suggests that, across the Western world, centrists are the most hostile to democracy, most critical of democratic institutions, and most attracted to authoritarianism.

How yesterday’s champions of economic nationalism became today’s servants of the global elite.

Why the super-rich are so excited about curbing inequality.

In this special report, some of the most important voices in the current debate on the right to the city are gathered to debate what Lefebvre originally intended and what it might mean today within the neoliberal urban world.

Mexico City residents lodged thousands of complaints about construction violations. Many of the buildings in question collapsed.

Labour’s Problems Run Deeper Than Its Leadership.

On the success of Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted.’

The Dangers of the ANC’s Decline.

How one person’s housing crisis becomes another’s housing boom.

As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly ‘laboratory for urban planning’. The secret? ‘We had to work fast to avoid our own bureaucracy’

The planners of independent India’s new capital failed spectacularly in their attempt to create a poverty-free modernist utopia. Their legacy is a sprawling city awash with slums and hampered by bureaucracy.

In 1955, the ‘Chicago of South Africa’ was one of the last areas of black homeownership in Johannesburg. Then the bulldozers arrived to evict these residents, confirming apartheid’s brutal suppression of black upward mobility.

The feeble response of ruling politicians to the devastating 1985 quake sparked a grassroots movement to challenge corruption. Yet modern Mexico City seems indifferent to poverty and inequality.

Mexico City’s experience shows that you can’t establish a “right to the city” without taking on the power of capital.

Struggling with aging infrastructure, strapped resources, and poor access, privatization is being pitched as the cure to Mexico’s water woes. But will it leave people high and dry?

The battle over Norma 26, the law that regulates the construction of low-income housing in Mexico City. “The issue with Norma 26 is: do we want a city for everyone, or just for the privileged few?”

The Mexican Drug War is a product of the country’s democratic deficit.