How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad
This report by Nasim Chatha for Truthout was first published on July 22 2017. You can read the original here.
The new federal penitentiary in...
Brazil’s MST: challenging power structures and the need for ‘historic patience’
The Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Worker's Movement, MST) has a gender-balanced national directorate of 52 individuals, with two people elected...
Brazil: why is Michel Temer still President?
This is a slightly edited version of an article, first published by Brasil Wire. You can see the original here.
It is always hard to...
Canada’s toxic policies in Mexico and Latin America
Pretty Faces, Grisly Interests
This article was published on the website of Canadian progressive magazine Briarpatch. LAB has added titles and images.
Main image: Banner...
Mexico: Trump weakens fragile economy
If the immigration agenda of Donald Trump and his administration is not enough of a racist assault on the human rights of Mexicans, the...
El Salvador: Unhappy Anniversary?
In 1992 the United Nations-backed Chapultepec peace accords brought decades of civil war in El Salvador to an end.
Now, 25 years after the peace...
Wifredo Lam: Inner Worlds
‘My painting is an act of decolonisation, not in a physical sense, but a mental one’.
These are the words of one of the greatest...
Temer out!
Demonstrations against Brazil's new President, Michel Temer, widely regarded as a usurper, are taking place in many cities and towns.
International resistance to coup in Brazil
As the impeachment process comes to an end, a group of intellectuals, both Brazilian and foreign, publish a collection of essays, analysing President Dilma Rousseff's time in government and repudiating the veiled coup.
Drug policy: myths, moralism & hypocrisy
International drug policies reflect a bias towards the global north, with damaging consequences for the south.