A Faded Pink Tide? Broad Peronist Coalition Defeats Macri in Argentina

The right-wing government of Argentinian President Mauricio Macri was defeated by the Front for All, the coalition led by Alberto Fernández. Is the new president a counterweight to neoliberalism in Latin America? Is the Pink Tide back?

Democratic Primary Debate: 10 More Candidates of Capital

On the second night of the July Democratic primary debates, ten presidential hopefuls discussed their proposals for healthcare and immigration in the U.S. Despite fiery rhetoric, all they proved is that no one in the Democratic Party can offer real solutions.

Defend ACA or Fight for Universal Health Care?

We need free universal healthcare. A Single-Payer program is far from ideal, but it would represent a big gain and leave workers in the U.S. in a much better position to fight for more.

Sanders, the Left and the American Elections

The unexpected success of Bernie Sanders’ campaign has thrust a self-proclaimed socialist into the national spotlight and sparked a debate among substantial sectors of the American left.

A break in the biggest workers’ action of the last twenty years

On Tuesday, May 21, after 15 days of a general strike with road blockades, the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) began a break of 30 days in the measures of pressure, on accepting the offer of Evo’s government to lower the retirement age for mining from 35 to 30 years, in addition to which, the pension […]

Venezuela without Chávez: a new stage opens

On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 5th, the vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced the death of President Hugo Chávez from the cancer that he had been diagnosed with in June 2011. It is no wonder that Chávez’s death has caused a stir both at home and abroad: for nearly a decade and a […]

Challenging the ideology of ‘what is possible’

‘Capitalism has been unable to develop a single one of its trends to the ultimate end. Just as the concentration of wealth does not abolish the middle class, so monopoly does not abolish competition, but only bears down on it and mangles it.’ Leon Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time There is no doubt that during […]

Transformations of the Latin American economy in the 90s

Introduction We are leaving behind a decade of intense imperialist colonization that brought in deep changes in the economic, social and political reality of the region.In the following article, we present an analysis of these transformations in the economic sphere. This is part of a more extensive work, also elaborated from the point of view […]

Obama, candidate of “change,” president of continuity

On November 4th 2008 a majority of North Americans voted Barak Obama into office as the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the position. This election reflects a magnitude of cultural change and has a symbolic impact that exceeds the significance of Obama’s presidency. Without a doubt the heightening […]