American money and American moral and political support has been really important in creating this backlash in Europe against feminism, LGBT rights and basic equality. The reason we started looking at this was it didn't add up how much these groups were able to organize, and the size of these organizations, based on the size of the bases they could reach when they started. A lot of these groups seemed to suddenly spring up. That a lot of their funding is coming from the US explains that.
Journalist Adam Ramsay traces money fueling Europe's far right back to Christian fundamentalists in the US - as a way to create new political spaces within Europe for the far right to advance against gay and trans rights, immigration and abortion, and as cover for a global reactionary movement in service of oligarchs on both sides of the Atlantic.
openDemocracy released the report Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian âfundamentalistsâ pour millions of âdark moneyâ into Europe, boosting the far right.
âWhether under the Bush or Obama administrations, the US government saw the Bolivian government of Evo Morales as an adversary in the region,â as did the Trump administration, said Ale
âWith a few exceptions, all the presidents in Latin America are white,â notes Janvieve Williams Comrie, a pan-Africanist activist originally from Panama.
The women of the Black Panther Party embraced the models established by women in Vietnam, North Korea and China, in part âto change the culture within the party,â said Benjamin Young
The nationâs best known political prisoner will mark his 38th year behind bars at a âYouth Rise Up Against Empireâ event, December 7th in Philadelphia.
The world birthed in the near extinction of one-fifth of humanity still exists, in the social relations bequeathed to the Americas by conquistadors and enslavers.
