Pedro Pablo Barrientos Núñez was a Lieutenant in the Tejas Verdes regiment of the Chilean Army at the time of the coup d’etat led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. In 2009, eye witness statements revealed that Barrientos commanded a section of soldiers within the Second Company of the Tejas Verdes …

What is good and what is bad? Who is immoral and who is righteous? What is ethics and who is unethical? Is there justice or is it just us? When I look back at my youth and the path that I am navigating, I ask myself if I was right …

In this article which is originally published on LeftVoice, Gianni Del Panta interviews Ida Nikou, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Stony Brook State University in New York. Her dissertation focuses on the labor movement in Iran and how the neoliberal turn has impacted workers’ rights and living conditions. In the first …