TASKS OF THE BRAZILIAN LEFT
LINK TO MEETING RECORDING HERE A WIN DISCUSSION, FEBRUARY 2024. Events in Brazil have been closely followed by socialists and working-class activists over recent decades. The rise of the Workers’ Party and the election of Lula to government created great expectations. When these were disappointed, this led to the rise of Bolsonaro and the far right. Now Lula and the Workers’ Party are back … [Read more...]
The Lessons of Chile
THE LESSONS OF CHILE - YouTube A WIN meeting, October 2023. It is half a century since the military coup in Chile – a landmark defeat which shocked the labour movement worldwide. A popular socialist government was overthrown; a democratically elected president murdered; tens of thousands of workers and left activists rounded up, incarcerated, tortured, summarily executed. The new dictatorship … [Read more...]
Counter Revolution in Chile
By Roger Silverman Image - Library of the Chilean National Congress - Attribution 3.0 Chile (CC BY 3.0 CL) Fifty years ago this month, on September 11, 1973, a military coup took place in Chile, putting a committee (‘junta’) of generals in power, led by General Pinochet. The coup resulted in the bombing of the presidential palace and the subsequent murder of the president, Salvador … [Read more...]
PERU: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
A Workers’ International Network meeting - February 2023 (35) PERU: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES A Workers’ International Network Discussion - FEB 23 - YouTube Peru has been in the grip of a rebellion since last December, of which the southern Andean regions have been in the forefront. This movement has been brutally repressed by the government of Dina Boluarte, Peru’s sixth president in five … [Read more...]
BRAZIL: THE ATTEMPTED COUP AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS
- A WIN Zoom Meeting - February 2023 (9) BRAZIL:THE ATTEMPTED COUP AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS - February 2023 - YouTube Just weeks after the return to power of Lula da Silva of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party), a rampaging mob of thousands of rioters stormed Brazil’s supreme court, congress and presidential palace. The head of the army and scores of military officers … [Read more...]
LULA IS BACK! – BUT WHICH WAY FORWARD NOW FOR BRAZIL?
(1) LULA IS BACK! BUT WHICH WAY FORWARD NOW FOR BRAZIL? - YouTube A Workers’ International Network meeting - November 2022 In a stunning comeback, Lula da Silva, leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, Workers’ Party) has returned to power in Brazil. The results were close, but as the incoming president Lula will come under intense and growing challenges both from the rich elite around … [Read more...]
Reformist Strategy Leads to Defeat of Chile’s New Constitution
by Awais Qarni, first published in Asian Marxist Review, 15 September 2022 “The outcome is an indictment on the reformist strategy of relying on elections and institutional pathways to make change. Some forces have already been quick to blame the Chilean people for the defeat, but the left needs to reckon with the failure of the reformist strategy to deal with the crises of neoliberalism. The … [Read more...]
A New Era for Colombia? YouTube
A NEW ERA FOR COLOMBIA? A Workers’ International Network meeting 30 MAR 22 - Speaker Ted Zuur - YouTube Latin America is once again rocked by mass protests, and nowhere more so than in Colombia, recently the scene of general strikes and demonstrations of over one million people. Now Colombia is possibly on the verge of electing a left-wing president for the first time in its history. The … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN LATIN AMERICA
CLASS STRUGGLES IN LATIN AMERICA 20 FEB 22 - YouTube After decades of brutal dictatorships alternating with weak parliamentary intervals, the countries of Latin America are once again entering a period of mass struggle. In Chile, three million people participated in street protests to sweep away the relics of the Pinochet regime and elect a left reformist president. At least one million joined … [Read more...]