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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:21

Argentina: The clash over rent

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Protester with wiphala taking part in a demonstration supporting the Bolivian social movements. Buenos Aires (Argentine). Photo: Vera BolkovicBy IIRE Fellow Claudio Katz, June 2008.
 
 
The prolonged conflict between ruralismo and the government has resulted in an exhausting political battle. The first bloc aims to hoard the agrarian rent at the cost of the popular majority, and the government needs to exhibit authority in order to implant a social pact that favours the capitalist class as a whole.

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Interview with IIRE Fellow Gilbert Achcar (Znet June 2008)

2008 is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel and of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe. What do you see as the Israeli goal and has it changed over the years? What is the current Israeli strategy regarding both Gaza and the West Bank?
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