A man who embodies the political establishment has teamed up with a "progressive prosecutor" who intervened to protect banks from prosecution. While the US seems to disintegrate, the Democrats are fighting to return to pre-crisis neoliberalism.
Like its counterparts in the West, the Chinese government is using the pretext of fighting "Islamic extremism" to expand its repressive powers and gain a geostrategic advantage.
In the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, Italy was swept by a militant workers' movement that inspired and challenged Marxist theorists like Antonio Gramsci. This article, the first in a two-part series, explores how the factory council movement emerged.