Left-wing intellectual movements
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Introductory courses dealing with sex, gender and sexuality are usually quite biased, going as far as to deny the reality of biology. Drawing on the Catholic tradition (Aquinas), this article presents an accessible argument aimed at... more
The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression... more
This book is about one of the key political actors in contemporary Mexican politics: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). This study describes the political environment surrounding the then Head of Government of Mexico City through his... more
This chapter frames the emergence and development of the New Left in the context of the main geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural transformations occurring from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The spotlight is placed on the... more
The article analyses the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Zionism among the political left, the intellectual community and grassroot movements in Latin America.
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP. UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA. MAY 2018 The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence, development and disappearance of the New Left, a transnational movement of movements that posed... more
This is a draft of a review article forthcoming in Capitalism Nature Socialism. Please cite the final version, published online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2017.1392691 and in the December issue of CNS.
Instead of concurring with the stance of the overall rejection of formal institutions, Nigel Thrift poses the question of “how one can rework institutions and their work ethic in order for them to be appropriate to our times”. As a... more