Acting with seeming impunity and military precision, the extremists oversaw an organised campaign that targeted dark-skinned immigrants, leftist opponents and gay people, according to state prosecutors, who spent 15 months investigating the openly xenophobic, antisemitic and homophobic group.
A8 Argentina Documents Released The State Department released thousands of classified documents that are expected to shed light on a dark chapter in Argentine history: the military government's repression of leftist insurgents 20 years ago.
The internet is an increasingly nasty and dark place the MAGA Nazis empowered by Trump's rise to power, leftists and liberals tearing one another apart, the nonstop stream of cyberbullying that's become so commonplace it feels mundane.
In 2004, Solnit published a much-praised book, Hope in the Dark: the Untold History of People Power, challenging the instinctive pessimism of many leftists.
So unless we are self-critical as leftists and progressives, unless we constantly keep an eye out for the dark side, unless we overcome personal ambition and a natural tendency towards sectarianism, we will have failed in our historic role just as we failed in the mid-war period where there was a complete triumph of darkness, of Nazism.
At the end of that dark period, she was overjoyed, she said, to see it was the Gang of Four, a leftist political faction composed of four Communist Party officials who came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution, that had been defiled.
Through the trial of Father von Wernich, Argentina is finally confronting the church's dark past during the dirty war, when it sometimes gave its support to the military as it went after leftist opponents.
With the exception of the dark mark of military dictatorship and the Dirty War in this country in the 1970s and 80s, the government is leftist and always has been in contemporary history.
Objections to torture aren't the exclusive terrain, as Bill Kristol likes to pretend, of "President Obama" and his "leftist lawyers" looking back on a "bright, sunny safe day in April" with "preening self-righteousness" and forgetting how "dark and painful" that chapter in our history was.
Until the stabbing of Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek anti-fascist rapper killed two years ago this week, Golden Dawn's victims were dark-skinned migrants and refugees, leftists and gay people.
