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Michael Burawoy, a Compass for Sociology in our Times

Michael Burawoy passed away abruptly on February 3, 2025. The International Sociological Association (ISA) mourns one of its most influential and inspiring presidents, a remarkable and creative global sociologist, an advocate for a public sociology relevant to the people and civil society, an inspiring teacher who trained generations of sociologists, and an extraordinary human being. Born in 1947, Michael Burawoy was first trained as a mathematician, until he casually read a book in sociology at Christ’s College library in Cambridge. He completed a Master’s degree...

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Internationalism or Extinction

by Progressive International

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At the inaugural Summit of the Progressive International held on September 2020, the Council adopted the following declaration. I. Internationalism or Extinction The crises of our century threaten the extinction of all life in all nations across all continents. Internationalism is not a luxury. It is a strategy for survival. II. A Definition of Progress Our mission is to build a planetary front of progressive forces. We define progressive as the aspiration to a world that is: democratic, decolonised, just, egalitarian, liberated ...

Bogotá Declaration: Towards a Pact with the Earth

by Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South

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After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “new normal” has been imposed with signs of chaos and instability. This new global status quo reflects the worsening of several interconnected crises (social, economic, political, ecological, health, and geopolitical), which reinforce each other while having a civilizational dimension. With great concern, we also observe a weakening of institutions and democratic practices worldwide, with a parallel strengthening of far-right ideologies and authoritarianism, as well as the perpetuation of a culture of war at various levels, deeply associated...

Manifesto for Socio-Ecological Alternatives in Nigeria

by Nigeria Socio-Ecological Alternatives Convergences

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Nigeria is at the front line of key social and ecological threats. In the last few decades, the challenges the country faces have increased tremendously, manifesting via multiple layers of impact that threaten the well-being and even the survival of the Nigerian people. Although the country has enjoyed one of the best climates and most diverse ecosystems in the world, this immense natural endowment now stands at a critical tipping point on account of accentuating climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and other ecological damage. Decades of reckless and poorly regulated mineral extraction ...

Manifesto For a New Popular Internationalism in Europe

by ReCommons Europe

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The European institutions (of the EU as a whole and the euro area within it) are structurally neoliberal, undemocratic and unequal. They constitute an obstacle to the meeting of popular classes’ needs, demands and rights in each country, as well as to solidarity and equality between the populations of the member states. When combatting the logic of competition, as well as from the perspective of an ecological transition, the European level of struggles and of building alternatives is of particular importance. We want to turn Europe into our common home, but this is impossible within...

Protests in Venezuela and Bangladesh: When do Autocrats Give Up?

by John Feffer

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In one country, the increasingly autocratic leader of fifteen years has up and left after being forced out of power by a student-led opposition. In the other country, the increasingly autocratic leader of eleven years has refused to give up power in the face of protests after he rigged recent elections to give himself a narrow victory. In the first country, Bangladesh, an interim government led by Nobel-prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus has replaced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now in exile (once again) in India. Meanwhile in the second country, Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro...

Global Climate Justice and Palestinian Liberation

by Hamza Hamouchène

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At the COP 28 Climate Summit held in Dubai in December 2023, Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared: “Genocide and barbaric acts unleashed against the Palestinian people are what await those who are fleeing the south because of the climate crisis…What we are seeing in Gaza is a rehearsal for the future.” He is right. The genocide in Gaza may be a harbinger of worse things to come if we don’t organise and fight back vigorously. The empire and its global ruling...

Social Movements in Spain: Two Decades of Transformations

by Marta Romero-Delgado, Andy Eric Castillo Patton, Gomer Betancor Nuez

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Over the last decade, social movement studies in Spain have flourished and come to offer new perspectives, highlighting the ebb and flow of a complex network of voices and divergent agendas. An increasing number of studies has focused mainly on the “Indignados” (or 15M) movement and its range of outcomes after 2011-2012. However, there is a contrasting lack of research dealing with the main transformations experienced by other social movements that were either central or peripheral to the Indignados mobilisations. For this reason, and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective ...

Reconstructing Dependency Theories

by André Magnelli, Felipe Maia, Paulo Henrique Martins

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Recognizing the relevance and importance of dependency theories in the present context implies continuing research that deals with the sociology of intellectuals, the history and circulation of ideas, and the revision of modernization theories in peripheral and semi-peripheral regions. Moreover, this must form part of a broad understanding of modernity and global social processes. But it is important not to generalize the conditions of emergence of such theories produced outside the European and North American center as if they were intellectual productions common to all societies in the Global...

Manifesto Concerning Global Crises and Radical Alternatives

by ADELANTE – Dialogue of Global Processes

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The crises we face The world is spiralling into an abyss of multiple crises. Deep fissures divide humanity, and humans from the rest of nature. The currently dominant oppressive system is fundamentally flawed and has created and sustains these crises. This system’s roots are in the structures and relations of class, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, state domination, casteism and our human-centred focus. It is these roots, not only the symptoms manifested in the crises, that also need to be challenged and transformed. There has been...

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