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Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century

Enzo Traverso, Martín Mosquera — 2025-08-07T11:27:15Z

Enzo Traverso updates his analysis of post-fascism in light of the events of recent years. Reflecting on the rise of the new right and the global crisis of the left, he offers a diagnosis of contemporary challenges and the dangers facing emancipatory struggles in an increasingly complex world.
In a global context marked by the resurgence of far-right forces, historian Enzo Traverso offers in this interview an updated reflection on the concept of post-fascism, which he has been developing (…)

- Features / Fascism

Ecuador: Indigenous Resistance and Political Challenges – an interview with Leonidas Iza

Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza, Martín Mosquera — 2024-04-20T18:13:55Z

In an interview with Jacobin, Leonidas Iza, president of Ecuador's CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), the country's main indigenous movement, discusses the government's repressive policy, militarization, and the expansion of drug trafficking while criticizing neoliberal policies and examining political debates within the indigenous movement and the left. The interview was conducted by Martín Mosquera and Iain Bruce.

- IV591 - April 2024 / Ecuador

Is Milei a fascist threat?

Martín Mosquera — 2023-11-29T09:26:00Z

The majority of the socialist left opted to abstain in the second round of elections on Sunday 19 November in Argentina, arguing that Javier Milei is not an expression of a fascist movement. But that is no reason to shirk the task of confronting the far right.

- IV586 - November 2023 / Argentina

The Left is Underestimating the Danger of the Extreme Right

Martín Mosquera — 2023-11-01T09:39:20Z

“Even if the extreme right comes to power, it is essential that it does so within a framework of broad democratic mobilisation that is the support point for the social and political battles that are to come. Nothing is more important right now.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Argentina

Radical Left Against the Rise of Neo-Fascism

Franck Gaudichaud, Martín Mosquera — 2022-08-14T08:26:00Z

“As anti-capitalists we need to advance our own proposals in a unitary but at the same time radically autonomous way from social-liberalism.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / France, Far Right

Nancy Fraser: “Cannibal Capitalism” Is on Our Horizon

Martín Mosquera, Nancy Fraser — 2021-11-06T06:49:39Z

Political theorist Nancy Fraser tells Jacobin that we face several crises at once: in the economy, in social reproduction, in the environment, and in politics. Without dramatic intervention, we may end up with “cannibal capitalism.”

- Features / Marxism, Features

We Must Call a Coup a Coup

Martín Mosquera — 2020-01-06T05:35:10Z

In November, the Bolivian military forced Evo Morales to step down: the classic definition of a coup. Despite the evidence, some commentators â€” even on the Left â€” have failed to identify it for what it was: an elite plot to oust a progressive president whose program of reforms had transformed the lives of many of the country's most excluded people.

- IV540 - January 2020 / Bolivia

Will Evo's resignation lead to Pinochet or resistance?

Martín Mosquera — 2019-11-12T15:25:06Z

The coup d'état against Bolivian president Evo Morales has generated the kind of anguish that great defeats of revolutionary struggles evoke: Allende's fall, Che's death in combat, defeat in the Spanish Civil War. “Criticism is no passion of the head, it is the head of passion,” Marx once said. We do not have to put aside the sentiments that envelope us today, rather, we must mobilize them for positive ends.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Bolivia

Latin America and the global reactionary wave

Martín Mosquera — 2019-10-20T06:02:54Z

The reality of the current turn to the right in Latin America is as evident as its instability.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Brazil, Argentina, Latin America

The Day After Macri's Downfall

Martín Mosquera — 2019-09-24T09:22:08Z

Argentina's recent elections have set the country's right on the path to defeat. But that won't immediately put the working class back in the driver's seat â€” much greater mobilization is needed for that.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Argentina