| Vive la revolution!
The issues raised by the May 1968 upheavals in France and elsewhere about the iniquities of capitalism and the need for a just alternative have not gone away.
The Left's prospect is looking up
Any remedies introduced by the newly elected right-wing governments in Europe will not halt the unprecedented crisis of neoliberalism, while the changes introduced by the Left, and not only in Latin America, have more durable prospects.
Latin America needs a new drug policy approach
TNI's Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy which revealed growing political support for alternative global drug policies on the continent.
In the shadow of debt
The 25 year long stagnation of the Philippine economy is the consequence of the government’s reduced capacity to invest - as it prioritises debt repayments, and of the loss of revenues due to trade liberalisation.
A defeated Left tries to recompose
In Italy, the whole left spectrum from communists to greens has lost political representation in the space of one election. What are the lessons that can be learnt from this defeat and how can the left rise again, asks Paolo Gerbaudo
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To mark the occasion of the start of a year-long review of UN drugs policy, as set out in the political declaration and action plans of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in 1998, 
This report puts forward a critical civil society outlook on the EU’s 2007/2013 Financial Perspectives. Written by a Europe-wide civil society network it guarantees full expertise on the different topics and issues listed in the Multiannual Financial Framework's headings. 
Truth is not just there, it is made real and ratified by action, but although to realize it and bring about a more just order one needs power, the truth cannot be allowed to be ensnared by power in the process. This is the role of public intellectual: to point out truths that are not convenient from the point of view of one’s politics.