Someone finally says it: a Fifth International

I went to the World Social Forum in Caracas in 2006 and it was great: rife with tremen­dous energy, panels on anarchism and Zionism and post-capitalist social orga­ni­za­tion, on food supply and eco­log­i­cal agri­cul­ture and mil­i­tarism and financial archi­tec­ture, on Latin American inte­gra­tion and South-South links. It was really nice talk. The World Social Fora were […]

The Best Video You’ll Ever See on Bolivarian Venezuela

Before this blog tran­si­tioned to its currently deplorable state of total focus on I-P with a side-trade in Iranology, I wrote a lot about Venezuela. I intend to write more, but it requires too much time. I actually lived in Caracas for 3 months a couple years ago, and have on my screen in front of […]

Full Letter to the Boston Review

To the Boston Review:

I read Claudio Lomnitz’s and Rafael Sánchez’s piece accusing Venezuela of man­i­fest­ing “signs of state-directed anti-Semitism” with a mélange of surprise and shock. Surprise, because frankly, criticism of Venezuela veers far too fre­quently into the hys­ter­i­cal. Lomnitz’s and Sánchez’s piece was a subtler and more textured analysis of the “uses of hate” in […]