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26 October 2008, by BENJAMIN DANGL
Bolivia Rejects Neoliberalism
After months of street battles and political meetings, a new draft of the Bolivian constitution was ratified by Congress on October 21. A national referendum on whether or not to make the document (…) -
25 October 2008, by Patrick BOND
African Resistance
Far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis, and indeed how the North’s problems can be tied into a broader critique of capitalism. -
14 October 2008, by Amandla
From financial crisis to anti-capitalist alternatives
In previous issues Amandla! introduced a feature called ‘It’s the Economy Stupid, echoing former US President Bill Clinton. We are of the view that coming to terms with the economic situation is (…) -
11 October 2008, by Devan PILLAY
Working class politics or populism: the meaning of Zuma for the left in SA
The dramatic events of September 2008, which saw Thabo Mbeki and several key ministers resign, is seen by some on the left as a victory against neo-liberal economic orthodoxy. The election of (…) -
9 October 2008, by Issa G. Shivji
Pan-Africanism’s new dawn
Celebrating Pambazuka’s 400th issue is celebrating pan-Africanism itself. Through its half a million readership and one thousand plus contributors from all over Africa, Pambazuka has truly set (…) -
30 September 2008, by Noam Chomsky
Continental Unity
During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed from right where you are meeting, in Caracas, with the election of a (…) -
23 September 2008, by Federico Fuentes
Indigenous Government Defies US-Backed Fascists
Relative calm has returned to Bolivia following a three-week offensive of violence and terrorism launched by the US-backed right-wing opposition denounced by Bolivian President Evo Morales as a (…) -
22 September 2008, by Naomi Klein
Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished
Whatever the events of this week mean, nobody should believe the overblown claims that the market crisis signals the death of "free market" ideology. Free market ideology has always been a servant (…) -
21 September 2008, by Laxman Pant
Fall of Koirala dynasty
The historical victory of Com. Prachanda to the post of prime minister marks the beginning of a new era in Nepal. Once again, the Nepali people have endorsed the model of Nepali revolution that (…) -
21 September 2008, by Badri Raina
Sweet Time for the Left?
I This a short and quick one. As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists, and stoops to nationalizing—yes, nationalizing— the great and (…) -
20 September 2008, by Michael Albert
Women on the Rise
In early September I went to Venezuela to give a talk about economic vision at a conference there. I stayed a week, and with Greg Wilpert interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian (…) -
16 September 2008, by Marcello Musto
The current importance of Marx, 150 years after the Grundrisse
M. M. Professor Hobsbawm, two decades after 1989, when he was too hastily consigned to oblivion, Karl Marx has returned to the limelight. Freed from the role of instrumentum regni to which he was (…) -
16 September 2008, by George CICCARIELLO-MAHER and Jeffery R.WEBBER
The Struggle From Below
Jeffery R. Webber – I thought it might be best to begin the conversation by getting a sense of your personal political trajectory, how you were drawn to Venezuela, some of your most memorable (…) -
11 September 2008, by Benjamin Dangl
The Left on the Move
Throughout the past eight years of the Bush administration, North and South America have politically and economically been heading in opposite directions. While Bush waged wars, curtailed civil (…) -
7 September 2008, by Jeffery R. WEBBER
Post-Referendum Conjuncture
“Summing up the aims of the new regime, Villarroel uttered his most memorable refrain: ‘We are not enemies of the rich, but we are better friends of the poor.’ This impossible pledge to favor the (…) -
6 September 2008, by Walden BELLO
Towards a New American Isolationism
Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the messages coming to Asia from the two events were very different. -
5 September 2008, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Bihar Floods : Criminal Negligence, Not Divine Deluge
The Nitish Kumar regime’s boasts of ’Bihar Shining’ are now submerged by the cries of Bihar Drowning. The NDA Government’s claims of ’good governance’ have proved a washout in the face of the (…) -
5 September 2008, by FIDEL CASTRO
When Gustav Hit Cuba
It is not an overstatement. This is the general expression of many compatriots. It was the impression of the Revolutionary Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Alvaro Lopez Miera, an (…) -
25 August 2008, by CARL FINAMORE
What Future for Trade Unions?
The recently-concluded summer Olympics introduced China as a major player on the world stage in spectacular fashion. No doubt about it, the country made a superbly dramatic entrance. Of (…) -
14 August 2008, by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS
Moving Toward "Sensible Socialism" On One Lone Island
Cuban leaders have begun a reform process – combining certain ministries, opening up more farming possibilities and decentralizing certain functions. They have not given clear signals as to what (…) -
14 August 2008, by Raymond Suttner
Need for a New debate
In the face of the substantial social, economic and political challenges facing this country, ANC members - and indeed the great majority of South Africans - are today being fed a diet of slogans. (…) -
8 August 2008, by Vinod Mubayi and Daya Varma
CPM Historical Mistake
Communists voting along with the arch-reactionary right-wing BJP on July 22, 2008 to topple the Congress-led government of Manmohan Singh is the most puzzling of all the mistakes ever committed by (…) -
5 August 2008, by SAUL LANDAU
Reflections on the Cuban Revolution
You can’t build socialism in one country, chanted revolutionaries throughout much of Europe as the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. In four years, under Lenin’s leadership, the audacious (…) -
2 August 2008, by Focus on the Global South
Collapse Of Latest Doha Round: Good News For Democracy
The third collapse of the Doha Round - following the collapse in Cancun in September 2003 and Geneva in July 2006 - indicates that it is time we bury the deceptively named Doha Development Agenda, (…) -
26 July 2008, by Ben Dangl
Total Recall: Divided Nation Faces Historic Vote
In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, "I’ll have two and half years left." But if he loses the (…) -
25 July 2008, by Michael Albert
Which Way Venezuela?
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in quite (…) -
23 July 2008, by Nikolas Kozloff
Ten Years On, Bolivarian Revolution at Crossroads
In 2006, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez was at the height of his political powers. Traveling to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, he delivered his by now infamous broadside (…) -
23 July 2008, by Manuel Cabieses Donoso
The Hard Battle for Socialism
Up until now, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s socialist project has counted on broad popular support. But it is encountering – as was foreseen – numerous difficulties and an opposition that is (…) -
9 July 2008, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Democracy and socialism
As Europe and Latin America’s leaders meet behind the “safety” of barricades and thousands of police during the Fifth Official Ministerial between the two regions, the National Engineering (…) -
7 July 2008, by Pierre BEAUDET
Pax Romana
I basically drew these data from statements made by William Brownfield, US ambassador to Colombia, from that country’s press and television, from the international press, and other sources. It’s (…) -
5 July 2008, by Justin Podur
After Ingrid
Colombia’s most high-profile hostage of the FARC guerrilla group, French-Colombian former Presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt was just freed (July 2/08) in a military operation by the (…) -
4 July 2008, by Roger Burbach
The Rise of Food Fascism
Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With (…) -
3 July 2008, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Nationwide Outrage Against Oil Price Hike
There has been nationwide protest against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas. Communist Party of India (…) -
1 July 2008, by Andrew Lyubarsky
The Revolution on Hold – Departmental Autonomy and the Crisis of the Left
When Evo Morales was elected the first indigenous president of Bolivia in 2005, he swept to power with a huge and unprecedented popular mandate, crushing his nearest opponent by a 25-point margin. (…) -
18 June 2008, by John RIDDELL
From Marx to Morales: Indigenous Socialism and the Latin Americanization of Marxism
Over the past decade, a new rise of mass struggles in Latin America has sparked an encounter between revolutionists of that region and many of those based in the imperialist countries. In many of (…) -
18 June 2008, by IJAZ KHAN
A Narrow Opportunity for Democratic Change
In 1985, in classroom in London, Professor Geoffrey Williams explained revolution with a quote from Prof. Hans Kelsen as ‘a Law creating fact’. Revolution replaces existing legality and creates (…) -
4 June 2008, by Susan George
The struggle for human emancipation
At a time when supposed “progress’ is controlled by transnational corporations, the struggle for human emancipation requires perseverance and transnational political organization to be able to (…) -
4 June 2008, by Via Campesina
Via Campesina farmers to the head of states: Time to change food policies!
Now that the FAO expects that hunger will affect an extra 100 million people by the end of the year, heads of states and leaders from around the world are gathering in Rome for the FAO "High-Level (…) -
24 May 2008, by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Firoze Manji
South Africa is all of us
The mythologies we have constructed around us are imploding, write Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Firoze Manji looking at the background to the explosion of xenophobia in South Africa. The situation is the (…) -
23 May 2008, by Laura Carlsen
The Battle for Oil
On April 8, President Felipe Calderon dropped a political bomb on the Mexican political scene. The Senate received an executive initiative that would fundamentally change the structure and (…) -
20 May 2008
Govt blamed for violence ’tinderbox’
As police announced the launch of "specialised units" to combat the deadly xenophobic violence in Gauteng and the National Intelligence Agency confirmed that it was probing the violence, President (…) -
20 May 2008, by David Barsamian
States of resistance
VANDANA SHIVA Is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. A Renaissance woman, she’s a physicist, scholar, social activist, and feminist. She is director (…) -
20 May 2008, by Sue Branford
Amazonian choice
The resignation of Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva reveals the balance of power within President Lula’s government over policy towards the Amazon region. -
19 May 2008, by Naomi Klein
Smoke and Memories in Buenos Aires
We are circling over Buenos Aires. The airspace is crowded with other planes, all of them holding like ours. The pilot explains that it is the fault of the humo, or smoke, a word I will hear a (…) -
13 May 2008, by Badri Raina
CPI (M) Breaks New Ground
". . .the party congress held recently at Coimbatore had decided that the CPI(M) should directly take up social issues." (Prakash Karat as reported by The Hindu, May 8) As I sit to write this (…) -
7 May 2008, by Manjushree Thapa
The Impact of tne Maoist Victory in Nepal
The Maoist victory in Nepal took India by surprise. But New Delhi must now critically reflect on its responsibility for the outcome, says Manjushree Thapa. -
25 April 2008, by Alex de Waal
At the roots of the crisis
Robert Bates’ When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late Century Africa is a seminal contribution to understanding state crises Africa. Bates’ thesis is that in the late 20th century, (…) -
25 April 2008
Mourning unfreedom day
Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers’ movement reminds us in this statement and call to action that the structures of apartheid are still thriving in South Africa. -
24 April 2008, by Patrick Craven
COSATU Opposes Arm Exports to Zimbabwe
The Congress of South African Trade Unions welcomes the statement by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman that the China Ocean Shipping Company which owns the An Yue Jiang, has decided to recall (…) -
23 April 2008
‘King should leave palace right after CA’s first sitting’
Maoist ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai has emerged as the real leader of this country after the Constituent Assembly (CA) polls. He defeated his Nepali Congress opponent Chandraprakash Neupane with (…) -
21 April 2008, by Amélie Gauthier
Empty stomachs, stormy politics
The violent protests in Haiti against rising food prices have exposed key problems in the already impoverished country’s political condition. -
21 April 2008, by BILL QUIGLEY
30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed.
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, (…) -
17 April 2008
International Campaign against Zionist and US Occupation
The success of the 6th Cairo Conference and the Cairo Forum for Liberation 2008, despite all the challenges and difficulties, is, by all measures, an important achievement. The objective of the (…) -
16 April 2008, by Vibhuti PATEL
Women’s Right to Land and Housing
Women’s Right to Land and Housing has been major concern of the women’s movement in India for over two decades. Globally, women’s land rights are becoming an area of increasing urgency. In most (…) -
9 April 2008, by Heidi Fritschel
The price of food: ingredients of a global crisis
A worldwide increase in the price of basic foods is provoking anger and despair in many of the world’s poor countries. Both analysts and policymakers are attempting to rise to the challenge of (…) -
7 April 2008, by Hillary Wainright
The Left and the Political Crisis
The creation of a Europe-wide left has proved to be a much stickier process than I imagined in 2002 when I stood in Florence and watched the 60,000-strong demonstration of the first European (…) -
5 April 2008, by Patrick Bond
Where to Now?
As the world waits to see what will happen in Zimbabwe, Patrick Bond argues that lessons should be taught and retaught about the dangers of elite transition between a voracious, corrupt, violent (…) -
3 April 2008, by Daniel Denvir and Thea Riofrancos
How Green is the Latin American Left?
Across Latin America, resurgent indigenous, labor and campesino movements have contributed to the rise of new governments that declare their independence from the neoliberal economic model, (…) -
1 April 2008, by Siddharth Varadarajan
A vote for change, a vote for peace
On April 10, the Nepal peace process which formally began in 2005 with a 12-point understanding between seven parliamentary parties and the Maoists will enter a decisive stage with the holding of (…) -
27 March 2008, by Nick Buxton
Constituting change in a divided country
Bolivia’s proposed new constitution is an innovative and progressive document constructed out of the struggles by social movements in recent years, however securing national consensus will be an (…) -
20 March 2008, by Horace Cambell
Obama at the crossroads of a revolution?
In a nuanced article that borrows from various disciplines such as philosophy and physics, Horace Campbell argues that Barrack Obama would only be trapped by a conservative and anti-people social (…) -
17 March 2008, by Federico Fuentes
Latin America Rejects Bush Doctrine
Reeling from the blow that it received in the aftermath of the Colombian military’s illegal incursion on March 1 into Ecuador — which resulted in the brutal massacre of a number of civilians (…) -
12 March 2008, by Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh
Political roller-coaster
With presidential elections in Zimbabwe just around the corner, Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh look at who the national, regional and international players are, and consider various (…) -
11 March 2008, by Hugo Blanco
New Wave of Repression
Hugo Blanco, one of Peru’s most outstanding indigenous and campesino leaders, issued the following international appeal to supporters of democratic and human rights. -
3 March 2008, by Patrick Bond
FROM FALSE TO REAL SOLUTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary (December 13, 2007) also made this point: "The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping (…) -
3 March 2008
CMP Trying to Reconcile ‘Anti-imperialist’ Rhetoric with ‘Neo-liberal Constraints’
The draft political resolution released by the CPI (M) for its ensuing 19th Congress provides quite a revealing commentary on the opportunist political trajectory of the party. The resolution is (…) -
28 February 2008, by Raul Zibechi
Historical Mapuche Hunger Strike Ends in Success
After a 109-day hunger strike, Patricia Troncoso forced Michelle Bachelet’s insensitive government to yield and allow her weekend passes and completion of her sentence at a work-study center. Two (…) -
28 February 2008, by Walden BELLO
Capitalism in Apocalyptic Mood
Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession. The falling (…) -
27 February 2008, by Blade Nzimande
Tribute to Fidel Castro
Blade Nzimande gives a comradely appraisal of Fidel Castro the revolutionary theorist, practitioner and internationalist. -
26 February 2008, by Patrick BOND
In the dark about global warming
It is tragic but understandable that South African society ranks — with the United States and China — at the bottom of a recent worldwide climate-consciousness survey by polling firm Global Scan: (…) -
24 February 2008, by João Alfredo Telles Melo
The Brazilian government’s (un)sustainable policy for climate change and the response of civil society
This paper intends to make an analysis, even if brief and not conclusive, of the environmental policy — addressing its interfaces with the development policy and, particularly, its relation to (…) -
23 February 2008, by Irfan Husain
Judgment day
Pakistan’s election was a major defeat for the Islamists, the president’s allies, and most of all for Pervez Musharraf himself. But what happens next? Irfan Husain assesses a big moment and the (…) -
22 February 2008, by SAUL LANDAU
Cuba Changed History
Fidel decided not run for President this week. I saw him last in April 2001. "The worst is over," he told the person next to me in the hallway. "The issue is developing socialism." Poking his (…) -
21 February 2008, by Richard Gott
Fidel remembered: a view of the Cuban revolution
Fidel Castro announced his retirement on 19 February 2008. Both the fifty-year experience of the Cuba revolution and current trends in Latin America confirm the "maximo líder" as one of the great (…) -
20 February 2008, by FASE
For a Sustainable and Democratic Amazon
1.1. The historical legitimacy of FASE and their partners One of FASE’s most established presences, of four decades, is in the state of Pará. During all these years, FASE grew and matured (…) -
20 February 2008, by Adam Novak
A country without an economy?
Media coverage of Kosovo’s recent Unilateral Declaration of Independence has focused on the risk of conflict with Serbia, and the broader geopolitical risks for unresolved separatist struggles in (…) -
19 February 2008, by FIDEL CASTRO
«The Time has come»
The moment has come to nominate and elect the State Council, its President, its Vice-Presidents and Secretary. For many years I have occupied the honorable position of President. On February (…) -
12 February 2008, by Subcomandante Marcos
The Fire and the Word
The following text is a transcript of an audio message by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos for a book launch event in Mexico City celebrating the publication of the original Mexican edition, EZLN: (…) -
9 February 2008, by Maina Kiai
The political crisis: A call for justice & peaceful resolution
Maina Kiai makes an impassioned plea for seriousness and commitment from all actors in the pursuit for a resolution to Kenya’s political crisis -
2 February 2008, by Medea Benjamin
ALBA, an Economic Alternative for Latin America
"With ALBA the Unity of our America is Reborn" (AFP) The sixth conference of the Latin American alternative trade alliance known as ALBA-which stands for the Bolivarian Alternative for the (…) -
31 January 2008, by Brian ASHLEY
Call from the Left
An earthquake has hit the ANC. A new leadership has wiped out the Mbeki regime in the ANC leadership race. This is comparable to a landslide victory for an opposition party in a general election. (…) -
30 January 2008, by Naomi Klein
Why the right loves a disaster
Ideologues use times of crisis as an opportunity to foist their economic policies on desperate societies. -
29 January 2008, by SRINIVASAN Sandhya
Mumbai: WSF supporters bring adverse effects of globalisation to the fore
Mumbai: There was grim determination on the faces of the 500-strong crowd that marched through the streets of this western port city for the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action on Saturday. -
26 January 2008, by ARUNDHATI ROY
Listening To Grasshoppers
It’s an old human habit, genocide is. It’s a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress. -
24 January 2008, by Bob BRENNER
US/World Economy : Devastating Crisis Unfolds
THE CURRENT CRISIS could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered (…) -
15 January 2008, by John Riddell
People’s Power
"If we want to talk of socialism," says Argenis Loreto, "we must first resolve the people’s most urgent needs: water in their homes, accessible health care, easy access to housing." -
13 January 2008, by Jim Miles
Subnation Status?
Canadians have always prided themselves on the “goodness” if not the “greatness” of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American (…) -
13 January 2008, by OLOO Onyango
No Justice No Peace
During my 18 year sojourn in Ontario and Quebec, I became quite immersed in a wide array of social justice struggles-from Indigenous People’s rights, anti-globalization, working class struggles, (…) -
13 January 2008, by Victoria BRITTAIN
Kibaki must back down
Desmond Tutu was absolutely right to fly into Kenya and throw his moral authority behind efforts to resolve the dramatic crisis that other outsiders are misjudging so badly. British foreign (…) -
12 January 2008, by ANDY WORTHINGTON
6 years of Guantanamo
The Bush administration has maintained a low profile over the last month, as waves of indignation over the destruction of CIA videotapes showing the torture of two "high value" detainees have (…) -
8 January 2008, by Gregory Wilpert
The Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point
With the surprising loss of the constitutional reform referendum in December (by a minimal vote difference of 1.3%) Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution reached a turning point. The April 2002 coup (…) -
6 January 2008, by Dipankar Bhattacharya
Unite for a Left Resurgence in West Bengal and India!
We are gathered here at an anti-imperialist Convention preceding our 8th Party Congress. This is a theme that binds a range of struggles together; representatives of important centres of anti-war, (…) -
6 January 2008, by Firoze Manji
The people has lost the election
Kenya is entering a protracted crisis. No one really knows who actually won the presidential elections. Given the overwhelming number of parliamentary seats won by the ODM and the dismissal of (…) -
5 January 2008, by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Two Body Blows to the Political Establishment
For the party establishments—Democratic and Republican—it was a bad night, as their favored candidates went down to severe defeat. -
3 January 2008, by PERRY ANDERSON
JOTTINGS ON THE CONJUNCTURE
The contemporary period—datable at one level from the economic and political shifts in the West at the turn of the eighties; at another from the collapse of the Soviet bloc a decade (…) -
2 January 2008, by Patrick Bond
Zuma’s Victory
Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma - apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki - and the tireless band of warriors from the Congress of SA Trade Unions, (…) -
31 December 2007
Prachanda speaks
In December, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rejoined the goverment after the Parliament voted the abolition of the monarchy, one of the major demands of CPN-M. Last year, Prachanda, the (…) -
29 December 2007, by Feroz MEHDI
Governance, Ideology and Electoral Politics
The rightwing Hindutva nationalist party the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was re-elected to power for the fourth consecutive term in the province of Gujarat on December 23, 2007. Gujarat, one (…) -
16 December 2007
TOWARDS PEOPLES ALTERNATIVES IN AFRICA AND EUROPE
We, civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples’ movements and organisations in Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express our opposition and resistance to (…) -
14 December 2007, by Pierre BEAUDET
Stop the privatization process of the Hungarian National Health Insurance!
We civil society organizations and trade unions, fighting for peace, democracy and social justice world-wide, wishes to express its solidarity with Protect the Future, Hungarian civil society (…)