Argentina: Foreign Debt Agreement — Vultures Celebrate

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). After months of negotiations and ever-increasing concessions by the government of Alberto Fernández, finally on Tuesday, August 4, an agreement with the main “vulture funds” was announced to restructure the payment of US$ 64.8 billion, out of a total of US$ 321 billion in […]

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Brazil: Fight the Three Plagues — Bolsonaro, the Pandemic and Social & Racial Inequality!

Brazil is moving quickly towards the abyss. We are the victims of three plagues that terribly affect the lives of workers and the Brazilian people — the pandemic, the authoritarian and genocidal escalation of the Bolsonaro government, and the dramatic deepening of the economic and social crisis and the inequalities that mark the country, including […]

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Latin America: Plunged into COVID-19 Crisis

Alan Rivas is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. From Lackluster to Calamitous “With bodies abandoned on sidewalks, slumped in wheelchairs, packed into cardboard coffins and stacked by the hundreds in morgues, it is clear that Ecuador has been devastated by the coronavirus.” New York Times 4/24/2020 The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic […]

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Map of world-wide distribution of COVID-19

Coronavirus and the Neo-Colonial World

Mike Forster is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Humanitarian Catastrophe Threatens Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has shown it does not discriminate in the way it infects people, as the virus continues to spread rapidly across the world, it’s clear that the effects on those countries and peoples which are the least […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #14

Climate Justice and Jobs Instability Rising Ontario Struggle Needed Where is Canada’s Women’s Movement? Hypocrisy to Indigenous Peoples No War on Iran 2019: A Year of Struggles Housing Victory … more from Canada and the World If you would like to order copy(ies) contact us at [email protected]

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Everything solid melts into air – revolution and counterrevolution in Latin America

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Three decades after the cynical announcements of the “end of history” from the ideologues of big capital, drunk with the fall of the Berlin wall, we are living through a dramatic acceleration of the historical period. From Sudan and Algeria to Hong […]

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Socialist Alternative Canada condemns military coup in Bolivia

This statement was sent by Socialist Alternative Canada to Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Minister Champagne. Under threats of violence from sections of the military and right-wing paramilitary thugs, President Evo Morales, Vice President Álvaro García-Linera, the leaders of the Bolivia Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as a number of government ministers were […]

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Bolivia: No to the Coup!

Fight the right-wing and imperialism throughout Latin America On Sunday afternoon (November 10) Bolivian President, Evo Morales, and Vice President, Alvaro Garcia Linera, announced their resignation from their positions in a process that can only be characterized as an ultra-right wing coup d’état backed by landowners, the military and imperialism. Morales announced his resignation moments […]

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“Chile Despertó”! Chile Wakes Up in Mass Protest

Just weeks ago, right-wing President Piñera was declaring in the media that Chile was an oasis in Latin America and the IMF was praising its merits. But when he announced a 30 pesos (about 5 euro cents) increase in the fee for a metro ticket, thousands of young people from secondary schools organized massive protests. […]

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Brazil: Save the environment, smash the system!

Bruna Leão is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). According to INPE (Brazil’s  National Institute for Space Research), between August 2018 and July of this year, there were reports indicating that 6,800 km² were deforested, while in the same length of time between August of 2017 and July of 2018, the […]

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