Monthly Archives: May 2015

MEXICO: Nestora Salgado’s Hunger Strike

Posted on 28/05/2015 by Ed Sykes

5/26/15 Political prisoner and indigenous leader Nestora Salgado[1][2][3][4] has now been on hunger strike for 21 days. She is demanding to be released, and is also protesting the failure of the Mexican government to transfer her to a facility in … Continue reading →

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Infinite Dispossession: David Harvey’s View of Mexico

Posted on 28/05/2015 by Ed Sykes

Translated by Oso Sabio[1] from an article written by Alejandro de Coss[2] in Spanish at Horizontal.mx[3] on 19/05/2015 There are few contemporary social theoreticians more important than English geographer David Harvey[4], and this essay uses some of his main ideas … Continue reading →

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Britain’s Plutocracy, and How We Can Fight Against It

Posted on 08/05/2015 by Ed Sykes

Call it what you want: a bourgeois democracy (in which the parties in the service of exploitative economic elites are the most powerful); a kleptocracy (in which “a small group [gets] rich by robbing [citizens] blind”[1] with the compliance of … Continue reading →

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