From class struggle to cultural struggle

Working class and cultural struggle: The political rights and their tactics

It is common to hear in the progressive front of Latin America the actions of the recent past of “the first wave” recalled as a roadmap to dispute the future. This is a mistake. To “return to the future” it is necessary to be clear that the anti-neoliberalism with which national-popular governments came to power in the new millennium is not the same as the neoliberalism of the 21st century. Not only that, democracy is also different. After the i…

Trump, AfD, the CDU's Kleine Anfrage with 551 questions about the charitable nature of NGOs: Culture is also under pressure in view of the election successes of right-wing parties. "How threatened are our art and cultural work?", the network "Together against the right – for a better democracy" around Joe Bauer wanted to know last Monday from a high-calibre podium at the Stuttgart Renitenztheater. Its director Roland Mahr wishes to counter-steer…

Muhammad Ali Muhyi al-Din Iraq was groaning under the yoke of colonialism and foreign domination since the Turks seized its political power until the outbreak of the glorious revolution of July 14, 1958. Iraqi society was divided into classes whose social composition varied according to the economic situation in which they lived. In rural society, feudal lords controlled the peasants and exploited their efforts to achieve material gains and cont…