Tag: Latin America
“Bolsonarismo” after Bolsonaro
Sean Purdy explains how, even after his loss to Lula da Silva in Brazil’s recent Presidential election, a network of far-right elements may seek to continue promoting a “Bolsonarist” agenda in Brazil and how the left must learn from its legacy of antifascist struggle in order to truly defeat them.
Mexico’s Ejido Experiment
Richard Velázquez Perales shows that, while Mexico’s ejidos offer more liberated relations of productionm, they cannot resolve rural inequalities on their own.
Building Grassroots Politics in Militia Territories in Brazil
Fransérgio Goulart and Giselle Florentino uncover the challenges of building abolition in Rio de Janeiro’s peripheral areas.
“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”
Jeffrey R. Webber makes sense of the election of Boric in the context of October’s social explosions in Chile.
A Multitude in Precarious Conditions
Professor Leopoldo Múnera Ruiz analyzes the social composition and politics of the recent massive strikes in Columbia.
Manufacturing Legitimacy
Derek Cross and Angela Marino argue that, given the recent election in Peru, it is important to remember the lessons of US-sponsored OAS intervention in Bolivia.
Mariátegui in Debate
Deni Alfaro Rubbo reviews Mike Gonzalez’s new book, In the Red Corner, about the political ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
The Criminalization of Opposition Politics in Cuba
Why did the Cuban regime adopt the Soviet model, indiscriminately repressing political opposition – including socialists, anarchists, and other leftists?
Extracting the Andes
Martín Arboleda’s exceptionally ambitious Planetary Mine, attempts to connect the abstract unfolding of a process of global capital accumulation linking Chile and China across the world market, together with the concrete, sensuous, quotidian realities of labor, territory, and urban life on either end of that abstract flow.