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Demetrio Urruchúa (Argentina), Nuevo orden (The New Order), 1939. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On an evening in September 2024, Argentina’s President Javier Milei stood before a large crowd in Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires. He wore his signature dark leather jacket and barked out his speech, the crowd devouring every word. ‘Here you have the trolls’, he said, ‘corrupt journalists, shady characters. These are the trolls’. Then, he pointed at the people in the crowd and said that they were invisible because the journalists had ‘the monopoly on microphones’. It was harsh language, a replica of Donald Trump’s statement that journalists are the ‘enemy of the people’ (which is itself an echo of US President Richard Nixon’s state...

La Marx International On March 15, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, witnessed the largest demonstration in its history, even larger than the one that overthrew the dictatorship of the genocidal Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000. The Serbian capital brought together more than 700,000 protesters in a city of less than two million inhabitants, causing the human tide to take two hours to cross the 450 meters of Branko Bridge, which spans the Sava River. It is a true revolution that is demolishing the capitalist government of Aleksandar Vučić, who has led the Serbian government since 2014. The protests are part of a cycle of demonstrations sparked by the deaths of 15 people when a shelter collapsed during construction work at the Novi Sad train station, followed by a decade of tar...