The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
ON December 21, the Autonomous Region of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain held new parliamentary elections to replace the legislature which had been deposed earlier by decree of the right-wing government in Madrid.
However, the elections resolved nothing, with the electorate still split on the issue of independence from Spain.
The election was scheduled after the Spanish central government in Madrid invoked Article 155 of the 1978 constitution, thereby dissolving the Generalitat, the autonomous regional government of Catalonia, and deposing its leadership.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation


