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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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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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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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 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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