In recent years, the language of sovereignty has returned to international forums with an urgency that many had assumed belonged to an earlier era. Statements invoking non-intervention, territorial integrity, and sovereign equality are no longer confined to archival speeches from the Cold War. They are voiced today amid sanctions regimes, regime recognition disputes, and economic […]
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Non Alignment and the Grammar of World Politics
When the Ugandan representative rose at the United Nations to speak on Venezuela, invoking sovereignty and non-intervention on behalf of the Non-Alignment Movement, the moment resonated beyond the immediate dispute. It recalled a moral vocabulary of world politics that many assume has been eclipsed by sanctions regimes, alliance systems, and the normalization of intervention. Yet […]
Posted inGlobal South, International relations, Latin America, Opinion
Politics without Compromise
I remember my time in León, Nicaragua around 2007-2009. For a long time, I was hanging around the headquarters of a leftist-intellectual opposition movement, the Movimiento Renovador Sandinista (MRS). Historically, they had belonged to the same overall Sandinista movement as Daniel Ortega, the person who once before had been Sandinista president in the 1980s had […]
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The Long Shadow of Intervention in the Americas
The history of the Americas is inseparable from the history of American intervention. Over two centuries, presidents in Washington have repeatedly claimed the authority to decide which governments in the hemisphere are legitimate, which are dangerous, and which must be removed. These decisions have been justified in different idioms—civilisation, security, anti-communism, democracy—but they have produced […]
Posted inTechnology
Artificial intelligence, reproducing capitalist class domination by more sophisticated means
It has become clear that artificial intelligence, despite its enormous and very important potential in the development of humanity, is not just a neutral scientific advancement, but a new and very sophisticated weapon in the hands of capitalism, used to deepen its control over labor, consciousness, data, and society as a whole. It’s no longer […]
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Democracy Without Consent
The United States’ January 2026 military intervention in Venezuela and the forcible transfer of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to U.S. custody has become one of the sharpest stress tests of the post-1945 international order. What unfolded was not merely coercive diplomacy but a collision between power politics and the legal framework designed after […]
Posted inBRICS, International relations
BRICS and the Search for a Plural World Order
BRICS did not emerge as a formal alliance, nor was it conceived as a challenge to the existing international system in the traditional sense. Its origins lie instead in a shared dissatisfaction among large emerging economies with a global order that no longer reflected shifting distributions of power. When the acronym was coined in the […]
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Nayib Bukele and the Working-Class Struggle in El Salvador
Like several countries around the world, El Salvador is experiencing an onslaught of extreme right-wing policies. The current government of Nayib Bukele rules the country under a crackdown, persecutes human rights defenders, concentrates power, passes bills to deepen the neoliberalist model imposed on the country, establishes a pedagogy of blind obedience to authority, and expresses […]
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The Obedience Industry
In India, the politician is not merely an administrator. He is a spectacle, a myth in motion, an everyday sovereign who governs as much through suggestion as through command. His gestures, folded hands, orchestrated humility, and performative anger carry the weight of centuries of hierarchy. To fear him is to participate in a cultural reflex, […]
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The Theatre of Fury and Fame
In India today, the archetype of the angry young man has left the cinema and entered the streets. The figure once embodied by Amitabh Bachchan in the 1970s—an individual railing against injustice—has been transformed into a real-life agent of spectacle. Aspirational youth from small towns and peri-urban India often translate frustration and humiliation into violent […]