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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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