Development & Dependency

Everything on poverty, hunger, inequality and the Global South.

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Financial Empire may have reduced us all to debt prisoners, but we can still become the social protagonists of history’s greatest-ever prison break.

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Halkidiki: where neither numbers nor people thrive

by Leonidas Oikonomakis on March 13, 2013

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“Come and invest in Greece! Don’t worry about those rebellious local communities; we will safeguard your investments, all in the name of development!”

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From revolutionary fantasies to active disengagement

by Sajjad Ali Malik on January 24, 2013

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The rise and success of the Punjab peasant movement proves that autonomous resistance — not party politics — is the path to popular self-determination.

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Kirchnerismo in crisis: the widow fears a coup

by Arturo Desimone on January 23, 2013

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Did Kirchnerismo and the Argentinian opposition betray their social ideals? Not if we remember that they were both founded on right-wing principles.

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Chiapas cries out: the sound of Zapatista silence

by Leonidas Oikonomakis on December 26, 2012

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With the Zapatista communities under attack by capital and state, the indigenous support bases are rising once more to defend their autonomous utopia.

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Revealed: how Wal-Mart bribed its way into Mexico

by Jerome Roos on December 18, 2012

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According to the New York Times, “Wal-Mart was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited.”

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Mexico’s collapse of 1982, and the extreme response of the US and IMF, marked the birth of an elite consensus that continues to haunt Europe today.

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Parallelisms: Sankara, the hero who defied his creditors

by Leonidas Oikonomakis on February 16, 2012

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Resounding from the anti-austerity protests in Greece, we can hear the echo of Sankara — Africa’s own Che Guevara; the hero who defied his creditors.

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Suffering from the highest income divide and the worst violence in the world, the time has come for the people of S-Africa to rise up and reclaim their country.

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Following a convulsion of rage in Malawi, many in Sub-Saharan Africa are beginning to wonder whether the Arab Spring may be spreading South.

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