Articles tagged “Latin America/Caribbean”

As everyone knows, many, many persons have died or disappeared, many have lost limbs, many houses have been destroyed, and many have been left homeless. Many who were working lost their lives, many workers perished at work in their factories, street vendors, public sector employees, store employees, students, people in the streets and in popular neighborhoods… What a huge blow!

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Este año se celebra el centenario del nacimiento de la teórica y revolucionaria marxista Raya Dunayesvskaya (1910- 1987) [This year the centenary of the birth of the theoretician and revolutionary Marxist Raya Dunayevskaya is being celebrated.] La Jornada (Mexico),  2 abril 2010

This article assesses critically the current state of the Iranian democratic movement, while disputing Postel’s contention that — despite Hugo Chavez’s support for the Iranian regime — the Iranian democratic movement has a lot to learn from the Venezuelan economic model.

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A report from the World Social Forum in Caracas. The turn to the left in Latin America, especially in Bolivia and Venezuela, has challenged US imperialism, and invigorated the global left. But the turn toward statism in Venezuela has also been challenged by some of that country’s youthful leftists, including anarchists. The lack of an in-depth discussion of exactly what constitutes a society that negates and transcends capitalism remains a problem — Editors

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An assessment of the situation in Bolivia in the aftermath of the election of the leftist Evo Morales to the presidency, in a society with a long history of labor and indigenous struggles — Editors

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A report on the January 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil — Editors