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Last April, Tunisian President Kais Saied was accused by various opposition parties of delivering a “soft coup”1 after claiming that the armed forces and the police were under his orders, something that goes against the legal order because in Tunisia the head of the internal security forces is the Prime Minister, a position currently held by Hichem Mechichi. According to some observers, Saied is using constitutional interpretations to increase his power and move towards a presidential system instead of the … Read more

On April 28thafter the week of National Strike1 against the tax reform of President Iván Duque in Colombia, a mobilization that was harshly repressed by the police forces, the government finally gave in and withdrew the bill. On Sunday, 2ndof May Colombian President Iván Duque made a statement on television and said: “I request the Congress of the Republic to withdraw the project filed by the Ministry of Finance and urgently process a new project as a result of consensus … Read more

On last 15th of May it was 10 years since the citizens unhappy with the austerity policies took to the streets to say it is enough1. Not much remains of that movement but it marked a before and after in the political and social life of the Spanish state. This movement developed in a general context of contestation with the Arab Spring in Africa and the Middle East or the Occupy movement in North America. That cycle began with the despair … Read more

The technological development of the last decades has brought with it new strategic assets that not so long ago were non-existent. To goods such as oil, weapons, drugs or infrastructure1, the semiconductor industry and the manufacture of chips would now be added. Why is this new industry so important geopolitical and economic and what is its role in the technological war between China and the United States? To understand its importance it is necessary to explain some characteristics of semiconductors. … Read more

In a context such as the current one in which the extreme right takes advantage of the crisis context to incite fear of what is different and that parties like Vox win voters in each new election1, it is necessary to remember the movements to fight against fascism and their achievements when it comes to stopping it, especially now that we have it recently with the failure of the Vox rally in Vallecas thanks to neighborhood action. On April 7th … Read more

Juana Ruiz Sánchez, an activist and international cooperator, arrested on April 13 by the Israeli government for “belonging to an illegal organization”, has seen that the date of her trial has been postponed from this Wednesday the 2nd to the next 7th of July1. The activist has been in Hasaron prison for almost two months, 25 kilometers north of Tel Aviv. The postponement was requested by her lawyer, since they had not been allowed to meet with enough time in … Read more

From June 26 to 28, we participated in a world climate conference through the internet focused on preparing new strategies and actions for the imminent COP26 that brought together several dozen organizations from different continents. Firmly agreeing on the idea that we are going through a Climate Emergency situation, the organizations that participated in this event in which several days of plenary sessions took place as well as other training and debate events, put the accent on the articulation of … Read more

On July 12, the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) presented a report called “The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2021”1. According to this, throughout the past year -the first year of the pandemic – hunger soared, outpacing population growth. Last year 9.9% of people suffered from malnutrition, compared to 8.4% in 2019, increasing by 161 million the number of people who suffered from hunger compared to the previous year. The reason for … Read more

The terrifying discovery in May 2021 of 215 children buried on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School1, a residential school whose purpose was the acculturation of indigenous children, has exposed the abuses committed in these institutions. They were children buried in unmarked graves and without the knowledge of their families. On June 25, another 751 infant graves appeared in the Marieval Indian Residential School2 and many more in similar institutions until reaching the 4,1003 that are known today, … Read more

Spain has experienced a wave of hate crimes in recent years, with an increase of more than 45% in this type of crime since they began to be accounted for in 20131 until the last report published by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in 20192. This is not a particular and exclusive case of Spain. In Europe, according to the FRA (Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union), only 17 states3 collect this type of crime. By not breaking … Read more