Tag Archives: Progress
Britain’s Plutocracy, and How We Can Fight Against It
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
UK: Chartism and a Sense of Working Class History
We are probably all aware of the horrific conditions which our ancestors worked under, and of the way in which they were exploited and oppressed so that the wealth of the ruling class of our country could grow. But the … Continue reading
ECUADOR: City of Knowledge – Yachay
Rafael Correa’s government in Ecuador is ambitiously planning to build a world-class ‘City of Knowledge’ to help it move away from a mining economy and lift millions of people out of poverty. It has been investing hundreds of millions of … Continue reading
Bishop Says EZLN is Strong, and Indigenous Have Dignity and Rights
The bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel said, approaching the twentieth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising of 1994: “Many people wonder if the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) still exists, and I tell them that … Continue reading