Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by COCKROFT James
“Without workers a factory does not function. But without bosses, yes, it functions — and very well indeed! With all the other comrades we are going to demonstrate that the nation functions with the hands of working people and not with the thieving hands of the politicians.” - Raúl Godoy, worker (…)
, by BROWMAN David L.
The Central Andes were the home of the Incas, an ancient civilization who created an enormous empire, larger in area than the Roman empire. Only indigenous peoples of the Himalayas have adapted as well as the native Andeans to high mountain environments. The ancestors of the Incas arrived in the (…)
, by WILDMAN Sarah
Trent Lott must think he’s living in a nightmare. More than one week has passed since his segregationist cheerleading at Strom Thurmond’s century celebration, and the chorus of anti-Lottism has swelled ever louder. Conservatives in particular can’t scream loud enough. William Kristol, editor of (…)
, by PILGER John
Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was “a new Pearl Harbor”. Its published aims have come alarmingly true, writes John Pilger
The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic (…)
, by HARNECKER Marta, RAMY Manuel Alberto
If I say she received her degree in psychology in Paris, or she was an advance student of Louis Althusser — who 30 years ago wrote the foreword for her first book – I’ve said something, but at the same time hardly anything. If I then add that she returned from France to the effervescent, and (…)
, by CALLINICOS Alex
US unilateralism has become the dominant issue in world politics. It has been one of the most visible features of the present US administration ever since George W. Bush took office in January 2001. Bush’s speedy denunciation of the Kyoto protocol on global warming prompted the Financial Times (…)
, by MANCUSO Eduardo
“Out with the lot of them - let not a single one remain.” This is the slogan which today unites broad sectors of the Argentine social movement and left. It shows the degree of radicalisation amongst the people and the depth of the crisis facing the regime, its institutions and the traditional (…)
, by PHELPS Christopher
IN 1986, AGAINST the Current was something new under the Reaganite sun, a fresh, radical, freethinking magazine of movement strategy and socialist revival.
The very name Against the Current signified opposition to the political tides of political conservatism and runaway corporate domination. (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has, in the course of the past 20 years, developed a politics of class independence while accumulating a quantity of experiences in social struggles and municipal government, notably through ’participatory democracy’. These founding principles are being flouted in (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly question triggers a torrent of anti-Chavez denunciations from the young professional serving as my driver from the airport that only ends when he deposits me at the Hilton.
“We (…)
, by SLAUGHTER Jane
Jokes about the U.S. becoming “Europe’s Mexico” are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness.
They’re predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world—and (…)
THE LONG U.S. economic expansion has ended. Whatever the outcome of the current recession, the odds are against a return to the boom conditions of the second half of 1990s. It may indeed be difficult over the medium run to avoid stagnation/slow growth, or even worse.
The reason, at the most (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Noam Chomsky’s account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of a popular mass movement from below.
It wasn’t just the events in El Salvador that were ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation theologists – socialist clergymen and women.
For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Noam Chomsky on the US intervention and coup following the 1944 revolution which overthrew Guatemala’s brutal dictator.
There was one place in Central America that did get some US media coverage before the Sandinista revolution and the contra war in Nicaragua, and that was Guatemala. In 1944, (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
Peter Gowan is a long-time editor of New Left Review and author of The Global Gamble - America’s Faustian Bid for World Domination (Verso 2000), which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. In the light of the events since September 11, his argument that the US is trying to establish absolute (…)
, by HUBLER Angela
Review: Women and the Politics of Class by Johanna Brenner, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2000, 330 pages, $19.95 paperback.
Johanna Brenner’s new Women and the Politics of Class, containing essays written over a sixteen year period, comes at critical period in American feminism. As Brenner (…)
, by LANDAU Saul
Landau recalls the 1973 CIA-sponsored coup in Chile that brought to power a military junta, and turned the country into the first laboratory of neoliberalism.
“Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
On (…)
, by SAID Edward
The United States may too often have failed to look outside but it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand America.
Spectacular horror of the sort that struck New York (and to a lesser degree Washington) has ushered in a new world of unseen, unknown assailants, terror (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The widespread protest against the impunity, five years after the event, of the military police responsible for the 1996 massacre of nineteen Brazilian landless peasants who were occupying a road in Eldorado dos Carajas has once again drawn the attention of international opinion to the Landless (…)
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