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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“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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Chile: 40th anniversary of bloody overthrow of Allende government

Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ’9/11’. In Chile, on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet […]

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