Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CHAPEL Duncan, LE BLANC Paul
Barry Sheppard’s book is a sustained exercise in retrieving memories of experiences associated with left-wing radicalism prevalent in the 1960s. This is done especially for the benefit of younger activists who have become engaged in the struggle for global justice in opposition to the (…)
, by SADER Emir
Contested by popular movements from Buenos Aires to La Paz, the neoliberal model’s fate in South America’s most populous country. Emir Sader presents a balance sheet of the Lula government as it approaches the final year of its mandate amid continuing social iniquities, corruption allegations (…)
, by LUCITA Eduardo
“The vital impulse of the human being responds to all questions of life before philosophical investigation. The illiterate man does not worry about the relativity of his myth. He could not even understand it. But generally he finds his own way, better than the writer and the philosopher. Since (…)
, by BAZIN José
Since the Jean Charest led Liberal Government came to power on 14 April 2003, it has kept to its promise to lower taxes. To achieve this end it had to cut the budgets of several ministries, including Education.
The overhaul of the loan and bursary system [1] sparked off the current student (…)
, by CARLSEN Laura
Throughout the continent, there is an offensive against the rights of women. The litany of losses or less-than-hoped-for gains announced this International Women’s Day only proved what women across Latin America already knew.
Most law does not recognize the term “sexual rights,” and the (…)
, by FUENTES Federico
Since January, Bolivia’s eastern state of Santa Cruz has been rocked by protest. Under the leadership of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, the movement demanding greater autonomy for the state has held actions including a January 11 24-hour general strike, culminating in a 150,000-strong rally (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
The new governments of South America share a critique of neoliberalism, questioning unrestrained privatization, the excessive opening to the world market and social inequality. In addition, they propose to build more productive and independent capitalisms with greater state regulation. But their (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, LOUÇA Francisco, LÖWY Michael
LETTER TO DEMOCRACIA SOCIALISTA
Paris, January 2005
Dear friends and comrades of DS,
Lula’s presidency has reached the halfway mark, and the November municipal elections are a good occasion for a kind of provisional balance sheet, on the threshold of a period already characterized by (…)
, by HABEL Janette
President George Bush’s latest restrictions on Cuba are intended to win Florida’s Cuban vote in the November elections; they also express his obsession with ending the Castro regime rather than helping Cuba towards democracy. There are potentially dangerous contradictions within Cuban society (…)
, by HALLWARD Peter
A very multilateral coup. Franco-American harmony and unanimous blessings from the Security Council for the overthrow of a constitutional government and crushing of popular hope, in the Western hemisphere’s poorest nation-state.
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As his advisors ponder the ever (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
MEXICO’S LEFT OF center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation’s political life.
Videotapes broadcast on national television show PRD elected officials close to Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador taking payoffs from (…)
, by ALLEN Klare, PETERS Cynthia
Klare Allen is a mother of four children and a long-time welfare and environmental justice activist. When welfare moved her and her family into a hotel after she became homeless, she started organizing the other mothers. Later she brought her organizing skills to Alternatives for Community and (…)
, by POLLAK Lillian, WALD Alan
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY WOMEN affiliated with Communist and socialist organizations are a marvelous resource for investigating radical political practice and culture beyond the perimeters of official doctrine and party resolutions.
Such narratives usually interweave episodes in left-wing history (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
See original at Critical Asian Studies (http://www.bcasnet.org/articlesandresources/article14_1.htm).
The numbering of footnotes has been maintained as in original, although it seems that there are no indicators in the text for footnotes 2 and 4. [Marxsite redaction]. (…)
, by HALLWARD Peter
Two hundred years ago this month (January 2004), the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola became the independent nation of Haiti. Few transformations in world history have been more momentous, few required more sacrifice or promised more hope. And few have been more (…)
, by BURBACH Roger
On the morning of September 11 I watched aircraft flying overhead. Minutes later I heard explosive sounds and saw fireballs of smoke fill the sky. As a result of these attacks thousands died, including two good friends of mine.
I am not writing about September 11 2001 in New York City. On that (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Amid the aftershocks of recent suicide bombings in Baghdad and Najaf, and countless other horrors since Sept. 11, 2001, it is easy to understand why many believe that the world has entered a new and frightening “age of terror,” the title of a recent collection of essays by Yale University (…)
, by LUCITA Eduardo
The Argentine elections of April 27, 2003 left a paradoxical balance sheet; they took place amid generalized apathy and indifference and on the other hand attracted the participation of nearly 80% of registered voters. Beyond this, the results brought no surprise: the second ballot will be (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Brazil: A Country Marked by Social Apartheid According to megaspeculator George Soros in a press statement some months before the October 2002 presidential election in Brazil, financial markets make today’s presidential elections and, therefore, a leftist candidate would be unable to win in (…)
, by Fourth International
On April 21, 2003 the Argentine government savagely repressed 53 textile workers and almost 7,000 people who mobilized to surround the Brukman textile factory in solidarity and to contribute their effort to occupying it.
The Brukman workers occupied the factory 17 months ago as the bosses (…)
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