Daniel Libreros Caicedo, a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and member of the steering committee of the Movimiento Ecosocialista (Ecosocialist Movement) analyzes the ongoing mass mobilization in Colombia. On November 21 (21N), millions participated in the country’s largest strike and mass demonstrations ever. This article appeared first in […]
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Latin America: conservative offensives and the return of the class war
Latin America today is a site of very powerful class conflict, repression and extremely violent attacks by reactionary forces. Franck Gaudichaud introduces our dossier addressing the situation in these countries and the dynamics of these struggles. This interview, conducted by Antoine Pelletier, originally appeared on the Web site of the New […]
Uruguay: The defeat, without extenuating circumstances, of the “governing party”
INTRODUCTION On November 29, after nearly a week of ballot recounts, Uruguay’s election authority recognized Luis Lacalle Pou, the candidate of the right-wing National Party, as the country’s next president following the second round of elections on November 24. Although the result was close, with Lacalle Pou winning over the […]
Chile: The Street Hasn’t Signed Any Agreement
INTRODUCTION What began in October as a student protest over an increase in subway fares turned into a Chile-wide revolt of millions. On October 25, 1.5 million—in a country of 18 million—filled the main boulevards of Santiago, the capital, to demand a change in the political and social system inherited […]
Sweden’s ‘radical’ Meidner plan was a defeat of the workers
The Meidner Plan wasn’t a path to socialism. It wasn’t even an advance in workers’ rights within capitalism. It was a defeat for workers and an attack on their power to organise.
Bolivia: A popular uprising hijacked by the far right
Evo Morales’s attack on his own social base opened up the space for the right wing to intervene in Bolivia.
More than just a “Spring”: the Arab region’s long-term revolution
The Arab regime is immersed in a long-term revolutionary process that pits youth-led movements against authoritarian rulers and neoliberal capitalism explains Gilbert Achcar, in an interview that first appeared in ROAR magazine on November 8. When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end […]
Greece after Tsipras: a left defeated, the right in power, and the new offensive
Antonis Davanellos analyses the political situation in Greece following the parliamentary elections last July, which saw the return of the right to power, the defeat of Syriza, and the failure of Left.
Bailing out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe
Ian Birchall, in a chapter from his book Bailing Out the System, examines the history of European social democracy and its practical and theoretical limitations.
The rise and fall of Maoism
In what was originally a public presentation at a Socialism conference, Lance Selfa looks at origins of Maoism and its international impact.