Hugo Blanco’s “We the Indians” – essential reading for ecosocialists
We the Indians: The indigenous peoples of Peru and the struggles for land, Hugo Blanco, Merlin Press/Resistance Books reviewed by Derek Wall Hugo Blanco led a peasant [...]
Latin America
Marielle Franco, presente!
Our comrade Marielle Franco murdered Activist of the LGTB movement, the World March of Women, City Councilor of the Party Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) in Rio de Janeiro and [...]
Irma: a neoliberal hurricane
The smaller of the two main islands forming the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbuda, is a small sun-drenched island in the eastern Caribbean; it has an area of 70 square [...]
The last day of oppression and the first day of the same
The last day of oppression and the first day of the same – the politics and economics of the New Latin American Left by Jeffrey R Webber 2016 (Pluto Press) reviewed by [...]
Radical politics in Latin America today
On 28th March, 2017, Jeff Webber, the author of The Last Day of Oppression and the First Day of the Same (Pluto Press) spoke at a Socialist Resistance forum in London. [...]
Hasta La Victoria, Adios Fidel!
Susan Pashkoff reflects: When I woke yesterday morning, I was told that Fidel Castro had died. For an American born in 1960 in a US fixated upon the Cold War and the [...]
Sport’s dance with the devil
Jane Shallice reviews Brazil’s dance with the devil : The World Cup, the Olympics and the fight for democracy by Dave Zirin Haymarket Books $17.95 The Olympics! Who [...]
Fidel dies
Dave Kellaway reflects Images of Fidel fill the newsreel of our lives: Dishevelled and defeated after the bloody attack on the Moncada barracks; walking free from prison into [...]
Brazil: a new illegitimate right-wing government stepping up austerity
Marcio Musse writes about the the illegitimate right-wing government of Temer which is stepping up austerity. He also outlines the challenge for the left to present an [...]
