Mexico: Two Years of AMLO Presidency: The Fourth Transformation Must Be Socialist

Josafat Arrieta and Christian Tello are members of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On 1 December, it will be two years since Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took power. The overwhelming victory of the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) on July 1, 2018 came as a result of years of growing misery for the majority […]

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Peru: Mass Protests Bring Down Illegitimate Coup President

Emily Culver is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across Peru to protest the illegitimate impeachment of Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra. The coup comes after years of political turmoil. In the most recent presidential election in 2016, centrist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) narrowly […]

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Colombia Massacres Update

On October 2 we published an article on the waves of killings and the protests in Colombia. Socialist Alternative also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and we have only received an automatic reply (the letter is at the end of the October 2 article). Since then there have […]

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The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery

Max Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European “enlightenment” principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated against docile and simple Africans that was abolished by high minded powerful European […]

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Chile: Pinochet Constitution Rejected! Plebiscite Victory Opens Road to New Struggles

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). The Battle is Just Beginning The Chilean people gave another example of consciousness and strength this Sunday, 25 October. The Constitution inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship was rejected by 78% of voters in the plebiscite that turned out 7.5 million people, the highest […]

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Argentina: Deepening Crisis Weakens Government

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). It has been one year since the election of Alberto and Cristina Fernández, which generated positive expectations in large sectors of Argentinean society, fundamentally among the working class, the youth and the women’s movement. But during the last few months, as the economic crisis […]

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Bolivia: Election Defeat for Right Wing Coup Plotters

Only Mass Struggle Can Take Movement Forward Below is an initial short response to the decisive electoral defeat inflicted on those behind the 2019 coup against the Evo Morales government in Bolivia. A more detailed analysis will follow. Bolivia’s 18 October elections saw a defeat of the Latin American right and of American imperialism, against […]

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Colombia: New Waves of Protest over Police Murders

David Sanz Villamil is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). At the end of the article is a letter Socialist Alternative Canada sent to the Canadian government. Feel free to use as a draft for your own letter of protest. On the evening of 8 September, police murdered Bogotá resident, Javier Ordoñez. A video of […]

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Puerto Rico: After #RickyRenuncia… Old Problems Remain

Cora Bergantinos is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. For united struggle against La Junta and US capitalism This month a year ago, after two weeks of protests across Puerto Rico, the then governor, Ricardo Roselló, was forced to resign. La Fortaleza (the governor’s mansion) was surrounded by protests almost 24/7, culminating with […]

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Bolivia: Mass Struggle to Overthrow Áñez and Assure Free and Democratic Elections Now!

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). For almost two weeks, the movement of Bolivian workers, peasants and indigenous people has been mobilizing marches, demonstrations, and more than a hundred roadblocks throughout the country against the anti-democratic, anti-working class, and pro-imperialist project of Jeanine Áñez’s illegitimate government. The Bolivian […]

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