Colombia on strike: “This government has to fall”
Colombia’s national civic strike is paving the way for a rural-urban coalition of protesters and movements that together can take on President Duque’s right-wing government.
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Bolivia: Report from the Funeral Procession from Senkata to La Paz
“We are not from the MAS, we are not terrorists, we are from El Alto and El Alto must be respected!”
History at the Barricades: Evo Morales and the Power of the Past in Bolivian Politics
The following excerpt from my new book, The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia, looks at the roots, rise and presidency of Evo Morales, who was overthrown in what is widely understood as a coup on November 10th. The book excerpt, written before this month of violence and state repression, describes how histories and symbols of indigenous resistance have been wielded as tools for liberation and political power in Bolivia, from the government palace to the street barricades.
The Bone Searchers: A New Trade in a Country of Mass Graves
A new trade has come into existence in Mexico: that of the bone searchers, who dig for human remains of the disappeared in exchange for a paycheque.
Queer Relics: A Review of Beautiful Untrue Things
Just as he had lived a double life, Oscar Wilde was destined to a double afterlife.
Crackdown Podcast: Capitalism, Prohibition and Crisis
A safe supply of drugs is not something that we need to have a revolution and demolish capitalism for. It is something we can do on the way to that.