Within minutes of the explosion known as the Big Bang, in which the origin of the universe took place, some of the very lithium nuclei – which today can be found in salt flats, as well as in our blood and throughout the entire cosmos – were created. As Martina Gamba explains in her book Litio en (...)
This is a welcome book by Mike Gonzalez, an historian and veteran contributor to International Socialism (Britain) and other publications, with a long record of writing about Latin America. Ambitious in scope, the book provides a valuable analytical synthesis of the left turn in Latin America, (...)
Review of Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber Blood Of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2016.
Blood of Extraction is a book about the seamy side of Canadian foreign policy. Its aim is to shed light on the ways in which the Canadian state exercises (...)
There’s been extensive discussion about the migrant caravan that embarked from San Pedro Sula in Honduras in October. By now, however, we know that this caravan is impossible to categorize as a homogeneous entity, as its members have made, and are still making, their way to Tijuana via different (...)
Jeffery R. Webber is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is an editor of Historical Materialism, an expert on the politics and political economy of Latin America, and the author of From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: (...)
“The Power of Aviation Unions in South America: The ITF LATAM Union Network,” a Case Study by Dina Feller and Teresa Conrow
One evening in late May 2014, a high level manager of South American airline LAN Peru waited until all his senior workers had left for the day before marching into the (...)
On April 25, European and international NGOs sent an open letter to the European Commission calling for the EU to put human rights and sustainability at the forefront of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Mercosur.
After highlighting the potential negative impacts of the FTA on the EU’s climate, environment, human rights and agriculture policies, the letter urges the Commission to prioritise public interest over trade. (...)
After 20 years of negotiations, the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is entering a crucial stage. But will the deal be sealed, or will the talks collapse and be abandoned once and for all? Mercosur’s sovereignty is at stake, as are the ecosystems and communities that will be affected by a (...)
New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine indicates these changes corresponded with increased US exports and investment in the Canadian food and beverage sector
Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that the 1989 (...)
Free trade agreements allow multinational corporations to undermine social and environmental protection. Even in an imperialist country like Canada.
A good example of regulatory chill, and the threat to democracy, comes from one of the early NAFTA lawsuits against Canada: Ethyl v. Canada. This (...)
This article considers, from a power resources perspective, the case of Central American trade unions in the garment-making maquila sector who linked up to form the International Union League for Brand Responsibility.
The maquilas in the garment industry have traditionally been viewed as a (...)
Abstract
The success of South American unions in improving wages and conditions for workers in the region’s largest and arguably most anti-union airline multinational company provides us with significant lessons about how to build union power. The international network of LATAM unions includes (...)
The new Trump administration has made NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, a major issue in its relations with its two neighbours. Recently, Trump has threatened to tear it up. With his standard nationalist demagogy, he claims “previous (...)
Pink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.
When Ecuador gained independence from Spain in the early nineteenth century, the country did not launch a social revolution that would overturn colonial society’s racism and (...)
An international workers’ union, La Liga Sindical Internacional para Responsabilizar a las Marcas (International Union League for Brand Responsibility), has been rewriting the relationship between garment sector workers in Central America, their employers, national governments and international (...)
SINCE THE BEGINNING of the 21st century, the Left has won elections in most Latin American countries, in a powerful wave of popular rejection of the disastrous neoliberal policies of the previous regimes. One must however distinguish between two quite different sorts of left governments:
1) (...)
‘Venezuela defines the future of the progressive cycle’ An interview with Claudio Katz
Introduction
Two recent events — the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic (...)
This is the first part of a three part article. Has Latin America gained autonomy or reinforced its dependent condition in the last decade? Broadened or reduced its margin of sovereignty? Confronted the global economic crisis with greater protection or greater helplessness?
I. Economy and (...)
Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements by Raúl Zibechi, translated by Ramor Ryan, forward by Dawn Paley. AK Press, 2012, 363 pages, $19.95 paperback. AS THE JULY, 2013 issue of Latin American Perspectives makes clear, the reinvention of the Left from “below” (...)
An important summit of global significance, held in Brazil May 16-20, has largely passed below the radar of most media outlets, including many left and progressive sources.
This summit was not the usual type, involving heads of states and business leaders.
Instead, it was a gathering of (...)
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