Mexico: A Bitter Victory for Morena

Morena achieved the majority by obtaining, according to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program, between 34.9 and 35.5% of the votes for federal deputies according to INE’s quick count. However, they are set to lose between 50 and 63 seats compared to the previous election, in which it had 253 of the 500 seats in the […]

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Peru: Pedro Castillo Wins

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). No Concessions to Capital! Build Mass Mobilisation for Radical Change The deep economic crisis, the great social polarization and the radicalization of the poorest sectors in Peru were expressed in the presidential elections with the triumph of the rural teacher and candidate for the […]

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Panama Canal: Workers’ Protest Brutally Attacked By Police

Dan O’Rourke is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Cost cutting and the potential for disaster … Workers at the Panama Canal in Central America have come under brutal attack from local police during a protest for safer working conditions. The workers are demanding their employer, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), hire […]

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Colombia: Mass Revolt

David Sanz Villamil is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Resisting Regressive Tax Reform and the Right-Wing Government (with poem of solidarity by Pete Marlowe) On April 28 the Colombian masses took to the streets. Hundreds of thousands answered the call for a national strike despite the threat of the pandemic and the […]

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Brazil: Kick Out the Genocidal Bolsonaro!

So far, the year 2021 has brought no relief from the ills of 2020. Rather, the problems have worsened. The second wave of the pandemic is more intense than the first, with the average number of deaths again exceeding a thousand a day, while government policy leads to the collapse of health care and delays […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #17

Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]

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Argentina Abortion Legalised!

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). A Triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ Movement In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (IVE) by 38 votes in against 29. When the result of […]

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The Mexican Revolution: A Revolution Derailed (Part 1)

Mauro Espinola is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). The first of a series of articles that seeks to clarify and outline the nature of the Mexican Revolution from a class point of view. November 20 marked the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, in which thousands of […]

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Chile: Neoliberalism, the 2019 Revolt and the Plebiscite

Josafat Arrieta is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On October 25, Chile held the plebiscite that defined the future of the constitution inherited from the military dictatorship. The resounding result in favor of a new constitution was the most recent expression of the movement that began on October 18, 2019. The social […]

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Guatemala: Congress Burns in Latest Latin American Revolt

Dean O’Donnell is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The accumulated rage of the Guatemalan masses reached boiling point on Saturday, November 21. A wave of protests erupted in response to a new government bill that, in the midst of a pandemic, proposed major cuts to healthcare and education. Tens of thousands […]

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