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What are the impacts of taxation on global education?

Specialists analyse the importance of building a fair tax system to guarantee public funding for education. By Anddy Landacay, from the National Public Budget Group (GNPP) and the Peruvian Campaign for the Right to Education (CPDE) In the framework of…

Freedom Moves Forward… health and life move backwards!

“If health and education are treated unequally for the inhabitants of a country, the revolution implies free education and health for all … It seems to us that proceeding in the opposite way will not lead to the creation of…

An Open Secret: When the infliction of Pain was State Policy in Chile

By Maxine Lowy “Surely you exaggerate. How can it be that bad?” 1 In response to Chilean judges’ ostensible disbelief that torture had become routine after September 11, 1973, the day that has left the nation scarred 50 years later,…

[Poetry] CHILE, 50 YEARS IN CHAINS

Do you remember when tenderness nested in our hearts? Do you remember the times when we marveled at the garden full of fireflies, that flowing river, the warm sand on our feet and the flower of a thousand petals? Do…

Brazil’s biggest anti-slavery operation rescues 532 people

The people were in slave-like situations in 131 municipalities in 23 Brazilian states. Rio de Janeiro. At least 532 people were rescued in Brazil from slave-like conditions in the country’s largest-ever operation against slave labour, officials said on Tuesday (5…

Third Malón of La Paz and the political power of women in Abya Yala

September 5th is International Indigenous Women’s Day, established in 1983, during the II Meeting of Organisations and Movements of America in Tiahuanacu, vindicating in the figure of Bartolina Sisa the struggle of indigenous women against all types of oppression. Bartolina…

Chile: 50 years of neoliberalism (III)

In turn, the prominent intellectual of the “socialist renovation”, Eugenio Tironi, has argued (as a virtual epigone of Adam Smith!) that “the society of individuals, where people understand that the collective interest is nothing more than the result of the…

[Peru] Daniela Traverso: “Illari is a link to the Inca culture and their worship of the sun”.

Meet Daniela Traverso, the young Peruvian actress living and working in France, as you delve into the fascinating story behind Illari, the powerful new voice of Overwatch 2. By Sol Pozzi-Escot Who is Illari and how did you come to…

[Peru] Aldo A. Lorenzzi Bolaños: “Political parties in Ibero-America lack a solid ideological basis”.

Find out in this interview with Aldo A. Lorenzzi Bolaños, compiler of the compendium ‘Political parties: current radiography of their role in democracy in the countries of Ibero-America’, the keys to understanding the complex dynamics of political parties in the…

Teachers’ strike is over, lasted one day

“Mr. Minister, read the vote well, the vast majority of teachers rejected your proposal”. The President of the Metropolitan Teachers’ Association, Mario Aguilar, in view of the results of the National Teachers’ Consultation, warned the Minister of Education, Nicolás Cataldo,…

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