Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LÖWY Michael
Contribution presented for the first time at the yearly conference of the Foundation Ernesto Che Guevara, Italy, June 2001.
In an article published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be (…)
, by KATZ Claudio, LUCITA Eduardo, MARCHINI Jorge
Descriptif : Argentina will see a series of elections in the coming months. Provincial elections have already begun in Catamarca, Chubut and Salta. The presidential elections in October will be the culmination of an intense political process. This will include high-profile elections in the (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne
CONTENTS The rise of the Christian right Cultural upheaval and US Protestantism What the Christian right want The Christian right and the Reagan revolution Anti-abortion activism Scandals and campaigns Developing strategies and expertise The Christian right in the Clinton era Do they have a (…)
, by COONTZ Stephanie, FEELEY Dianne
STEPHANIE COONTZ TEACHES history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dianne Feeley interviewed Stephanie about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. Her earlier books on the social history of the (…)
, by AGUITON Christophe
Tuesday 21 February, early morning
TV Azteca/ Scenes of Urban life, directly, thanks to the helicopters flying over the town. American style: various happenings, traffic jams, etc. There, the scoop was the direct confrontation of a small group of students who were occupying a faculty. A pile (…)
, by GALEANO Eduardo, SHERMAN Scott
Eduardo Galeano is regarded as one of Latin America’s fiercest voices of social conscience. Yet he insists that language — its secrets, mysteries, and masks — always comes first.
“The division of labor among nations,” Eduardo Galeano proclaimed in the opening sentence of Open Veins of Latin (…)
, par CARTWRIGHT Donna
THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM for Kimberly Peirce’s film « Boys Don’t Cry, » and Hilary Swank’s Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
A “Red” Government in the South of Brazil - Brazilian Workers Party wins gubernatorial election in state of Rio Grande do Sul; includes article on productivity of crime
For ten years, the Brazilian Workers Party (PT) has run city hall in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state (…)
“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.” (W. H. Auden)
So the old tyrant made his escape. Aided and abetted by the British government in the person of its home secretary [interior minister], Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Excerpted from Rogue States, 2000.
In 1999, Colombia became the leading recipient of US military and police assistance, replacing Turkey (Israel and Egypt are in a separate category). Colombia receives more US military aid than the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined. The total (…)
, by BOYD Stephanie
There’s little celestial about the city Chimbote – except that it stinks to high heaven. But its determined citizens will risk jail to ‘green’ it. Stephanie Boyd went there to find out more.
Today, like every other day, six-year-old Jorge is up to his knees in a rushing muddy-red stream of (…)
, by BRECHER Jeremy
Jeremy Brecher’s short history of the successful nationwide illegal wildcat strike of American postal workers: the first major strike of federal government workers.
New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970
The independent action of discontented workers across the US from the late (…)
, by MIAH Malik
This talk was presented to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, April 10-13, 1998 by Malik Miah, from the National Committee of Solidarity (USA).
I’m happy to be at this conference for two reasons. One, I’m happy to have the opportunity to hear the different comrades and brothers and (…)
, by WILSON Dorotea
This talk was presented to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, April 10-13, 1998 by Dorotea Wilson, National Directorate member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
Early history
The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, commonly called the Atlantic Coast, was amongst the first places (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
We are living in a time when the world is dis-enchanted. Now more than ever before, capitalism, in its neoliberal form, has reduced all social relations, all values, all qualifies to the status of commodities. This is a realm of universal quantification, commercialization, monetarization. This (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
I. Dignity arose on the first day of January 1994
The ’Enough!’ (’!Ya Basta!’) proclaimed by the Zapatistas on the first day of 1994 was the cry of dignity. When they occupied San Cristobal de las Casas and six other towns of Chiapas on that day, the wind they blew into the world, ’this wind (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Global neoliberalism parades victoriously through our era, monopolizing its discourse and ideology. To confront the inherent perversity of the capitalist system’s universal domination we need, more than ever, alternative modes of thinking and acting that are universal, global, planetary. We need (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Years pass, fashions change, post-modernism succeeds modernism, democratorships replace dictatorships, and the Berlin Wall falls under the new Wall of Money. But thirty years later, Che Guevara’s message is still a glowing beacon to those who know that a better world is possible.
There is (…)
, par DRUCKER Peter
Review of : The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935), by John Lauritsen & David Thorstad, (Novato, CA : Times Change Press, 1995), revised edition, $9.95 paper.
Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left, edited by Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis & James Steakley, (…)
, by HABEL Janette
The United States’ embargo always created difficulties for the Cuban economy but the Helms-Burton Act made things worse, especially since the European countries have also been harassing the Castro regime. Paradoxically, Havana is seeking to put an end to its isolation through rapprochement with (…)
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