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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of fellow progressive Democrats are heading to South America later this month on a congressional trip that will also challenge Biden administration policy in the region.

Changing the world — because it needs it

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To understand what the population rejected on 4 September, we have to look at the left’s lack of an economic programme to overcome neoliberalism; the impossibility of producing a persuasive narrative to oppose the smear campaign against the text.

Kissinger is having an extended birthday month. It has also been a month of outstanding watchdog reporting — including new revelations about previously untold mass killings Kissinger was responsible for in Cambodia.

Labor is busting out all over

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

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The far right’s victory in elections for the Constitutional Council may be the death knell for a progressive constitution in Chile. It’s also a needed wake-up call for the Chilean left.