A “real opposition” exists in Venezuela, an alternative to both the extreme right wing of María Corina Machado and the increasingly authoritarian government of Maduro. This opposition, operating largely out of the public eye, is usually defined as dissident Chavismo, but also encompasses many other democratic and leftist forces. Amongst its many members is constitutional lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, a prominent figure in the 2017 Constituent Assembly, now in exile in Colombia to escape (…)

Suppose a state drunk on the sadistic pleasure of mass expulsion, torture and genocidal annihilation, in the name of 'total victory,' finds itself in a mental health crisis – if there is no psychiatric healer to treat it, can it at least be diagnosed? Photo: A Palestinian man records a burning truck after an Israeli settler attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank in November.Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP “The Arabs have 52 states? Let them go there.” (…)

Eleni Varika, daughter of the historic leader of the Trotskist movement Vasos Varika, was born in Athens in 1949 and studied at the Philosophical School of the University of Athens, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the University of Paris 7. She participated in the Trotskist Communist Revolutionary Front in the Metropolitan and since 1977 in the OKDE after the unification of the two organizations. Shee was a key member of the newspaper Roadblock and was active in the (…)