The census controversies are not over in Australia, but they have certainly cooled down. This is a better time to air a couple of questions that have largely remained outside the central debates revolving around this census round in general, and around the crisis of census day in particular. [...]
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Venezuelans balloted last month – again. Nothing exceptional in a country where citizens have cast their votes in twenty different nationwide elections over the past 17 years – more than once annually, if one draws an average. Yet elections in the Bolivarian republic generate an [...]
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Let us start from the end. State, Power, Socialism (1978) is closed with a section entitled “Towards a democratic socialism” (Part Five). Poulantzas therein condensed basic tenets of his positioning before the debates around democracy and socialism running in the 1970s. These debates [...]
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The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian revolution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories.
Considered a beacon of twenty-first century Socialism by many, Venezuela is the scenario of ongoing global struggles for the definition of [...]
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Barack Obama is a self-declared realist and makes no qualms about it. He admits that on occasion the USA will ‘twist the arm’ of governments that do not follow Washington’s suit. Rather casually, Obama presents such principles as something that comes along with his job – as if USA citizens [...]
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