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The Latin American Political Struggle for Power. Apparent right-wing successes in Bolivia, Brazil, and elsewhere may prove ephemeral. With neoliberalism and capitalist profitability in crisis across the globe, the Latin American bourgeoisie finds itself without a compelling governing program, unlike previous incarnations of the Latin American ...
Instead of changing course, DSA should continue prioritizing mass parties of the Latin American Left. by Luca Dhagat and Niko Johnson-Fuller - Fall 2023. Beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Latin America saw a surge in left wing parties and candidates winning elections. Often referred to as the “Pink Tide,” this trend has ...
Nueva Canción and the Latin American Left. Nueva Canción was a Latin American folk music-revival movement that emerged in the mid-1960s and continued through the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its pan-Latin American scope, the style of Nueva Canción artists was incredibly diverse. However, the movement prioritized the inclusion of indigenous ...
The U.S. has long been willing to exploit less-developed countries in Latin America for the sake of economic gain and geopolitical domination, regardless of the cost. Though some states (i.e. Argentina or Chile) have relatively more developed economies, much of Latin America remains impoverished, and measures of social inequality in the region ...
Latin America has long been a focus of international solidarity work among U.S. socialists. In his article, veteran activist David Grosser looks back at the Central American solidarity movement of the 1980s, when Americans mobilized to oppose the government’s support for dictatorships and death squads in the region.
A Democratic Socialists of America Publication. To Demand the World Democratic socialists must defend the universal human right to migrate - and the right to stay home.
Despite the fact that during the Cold War the AFL-CIO and its former foreign policy arm in Latin America, the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), maintained a lukewarm relationship with the progressive novo sindicalismo (new unionism) movement which was forged out of the historic metalworker strikes in the late 1970s and ...
In 1936, socialists and communists around the world wanted the direct intervention of their respective imperialist countries in Spain to support the Spanish Republic. Even though the United States was being very naughty in Latin America, people here said, “the US government should support the Spanish Republic.”
This is a moment of overlapping and reinforcing crises: the unraveling of neoliberal globalization; the rise of nationalist and authoritarian forces in both the developing world and the capitalist core; the onset of ever-increasing climate instability. This confluence of developments has set in motion a massive, worldwide migration of historic proportions. According to the United…
The same pattern can be seen in wealthier countries, but in reverse—politicians and parties who promise to protect domestic jobs are rewarded, whether they be “protecting” those jobs from other countries (i.e., American factories moving to Mexico) or immigrants (i.e., Eastern Europeans working in manual occupations in the United Kingdom).