Following the end of ‘the end of history’, geopolitics and imperialism are reasserted as two inevitable perspectives for understanding the convulsive and unequal reality between the nations of the Global North and South. Included here are texts related to the processes of militarization, hybrid warfare, hegemonic transition, China-Russia-US relations, multipolarism and the new right-wing forces, among others.

For more than 200 years, Latin America and the Caribbean have been thinking up and testing autonomous and sovereign forms of regional integration. Included here are texts related to the integration of peoples, state cooperation initiatives in economic, cultural, educational and health matters, and regional organizations such as CELAC, Unasur, ALBA-TCP, CARICOM, Mercosur, the Andean Community of Nations, etc.

Climate change, pollution, extractivism, lack of food sovereignty, species in extinction, energy transition or increasingly recurrent natural disasters are some of the new universal issues of our time. For decades, ALAI has been dedicated not only to the analysis of environmental issues, but also to the search for increasingly urgent solutions.

New technologies, digital corporations, media conglomerates and social networks are some of the key elements of the new digital capitalism. Texts related to these issues, as well as to the construction of citizen alternatives, grassroots communication and the right to communicate are included here.

The concentration of wealth, the excessive power of corporations and the increase in all forms of violence and inequality mean that the capitalist economy continues to be at the center of regional and global concerns and debates. Included here are texts related to financialization and free trade, transnational corporations, the popular and communal economy and economic paradigms, among others.

There is no transformation without the agents of transformation. That is why for decades ALAI has been accompanying, advising and participating in the debates of people’s movements in the region. This section includes content related to urban, peasant, union, youth and women’s movements, communal experiences and civilizational alternatives, as well as new forms of resistance and social mobilization.

The State continues to be one of the main actors and topics of debate in the region, despite the succession of decades of neoliberal policies. This section includes content on politics, national situations, regional reality, electoral processes, legislation and justice, and democracy and human rights, with emphasis on the reality and current affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Latin American and Caribbean region has a history that is still partly unknown, as well as an enormous diversity of currents of critical thinking. Included here are texts linked to historical themes and perspectives such as Latin American and Global South Marxism, liberation theology and philosophy, Afro-Caribbean thinking, good living, grassroots feminisms, anti-imperialism and the decolonial perspective.

Our region has a living and latent culture, enriched by the mixture of indigenous, Afro-descendant, Asian and European human groups, cultures and languages. Included here are texts of cultural criticism, reviews and interviews on literature, cinema and audiovisual media, theater, music, graphic arts, languages and all the wide range of artistic and cultural productions of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Global South.

If the world’s migrants had a country of their own, it would be one of the five most populated countries in the world. Included here are texts related to the problem of the millions of people who make up the global diaspora, and to the analysis of the causes of their displacement, linked to war, militarization, genocide, economic crisis, hunger and climate change.