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...]
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...]
Latin America: A New Upsurge
Amid the unprecedented recent wave of protests that has swept the world, nowhere has experienced more widespread turmoil than the South American sub-continent. Recent months have witnessed a general strike and uprising in Colombia; demonstrations throughout Chile and Brazil including well over a million in Santiago and a million in Sao Paolo; in Bolivia the return to power of the Movement For … [Read more...]
BRAZIL: THE FIGHT AGAINST BOLSONARO AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
Among the most ferocious regimes of recent times is that of Bolsonaro in Brazil. And now, at its first electoral test since he won the presidency in 2018, his party has suffered a humiliating defeat in local elections. In Sao Paolo and in Recife, it came fourth; in Manaus, fifth; and in Belo Horizonte, it won less than10% of the vote. This is against a background where Brazil’s currency has … [Read more...]