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Latin America: Second “Pink Tide”: What Way Forward?

March 6, 2023Elan Axelbank

Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). This second wave of reformism in power is already proving to be anything but a repetition of the first. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, propelled by mass movements of the working class and rural poor, a wave of left-wing electoral victories […]

Bolivia: Election Defeat for Right Wing Coup Plotters

October 20, 2020Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil)

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 […]

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

August 28, 2020André Ferrari

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 […]

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

November 26, 2019André Ferrari

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 […]

Socialist Alternative Canada condemns military coup in Bolivia

November 22, 2019Socialist Alternative Canada

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 […]

Bolivia: No to the Coup!

November 11, 2019Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil)

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 […]