John Brown
@johnbrownmu.bsky.social
Lecturer at Maynooth University, Ireland. Latin American politics, movements and party relations, Bolivia, Venezuela, Greece, Spain
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... My two cents on US efforts to oust Venezuela’s Maduro, oil tanker seizures, sanctions, and who really pays the price of such regime change tactics (hint, its not Maduro, but rather Venezuelan citizens)
@musociology.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
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US govt accused of "Naval Piracy" after oil tanker seizure
The United States has imposed sanctions on six ships said to be carrying Venezuelan oil a day after seizing a tanker off the country's coast. Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro accused the US governm...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... My two cents on US efforts to oust Venezuela’s Maduro, oil tanker seizures, sanctions, and who really pays the price of such regime change tactics (hint, its not Maduro, but rather Venezuelan citizens)
@musociology.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
@musociology.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social @researchireland.ie
Drawing from interviews with figures from communes movements, leftist parties, former/current PSUV figures, and participants in popular organizations, the article details the challenges facing critical sectors in Venezuela links.org.au/revitalizing....
Revitalizing popular counterpower in Venezuela: Tensions between the PSUV and popular organizations
John Brown & Atenea Jiménez — Under an increasingly authoritarian government, Venezuela’s Chavista project faces stark challenges and dilemmas.
links.org.au
June 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Drawing from interviews with figures from communes movements, leftist parties, former/current PSUV figures, and participants in popular organizations, the article details the challenges facing critical sectors in Venezuela links.org.au/revitalizing....
O/A article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Oligarchy-populism-democracy, novel conceptualization for analyzing leftist parties/leaders. Dual democratization-de-democratization. Competing actors/understandings of democracy employ ideological/economic/military/political powers to achieve goals
Oligarchy, Populism, Democracy: Re-conceptualizing Democratization and De-democratization in the Neoliberal Era
Published in Socialism and Democracy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
O/A article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Oligarchy-populism-democracy, novel conceptualization for analyzing leftist parties/leaders. Dual democratization-de-democratization. Competing actors/understandings of democracy employ ideological/economic/military/political powers to achieve goals
Reposted by John Brown
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Pour reprendre les catégories de l’article, le Macronistan offre un bel exemple de « centralisation régressive ».
Oligarchy, Populism, Democracy: Re-conceptualizing Democratization and De-democratization in the Neoliberal Era
Published in Socialism and Democracy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Pour reprendre les catégories de l’article, le Macronistan offre un bel exemple de « centralisation régressive ».
New OA article in Critical Sociology: Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
New OA article in Critical Sociology: Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by John Brown
Petro said 'Gaza is a rehearsal for the future', meaning a rehearsal for how the West will (mis)treat the many who seek refuge and help from climate disaster. The political establishment calls for borders and exclusion, feeding existing social resentments. Workshop on Saturday in Dublin.
November 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Petro said 'Gaza is a rehearsal for the future', meaning a rehearsal for how the West will (mis)treat the many who seek refuge and help from climate disaster. The political establishment calls for borders and exclusion, feeding existing social resentments. Workshop on Saturday in Dublin.