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

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 […]

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Venezuela after the Presidential elections

Neither the capitalists nor bureaucracy can solve the crisis! Build a revolutionary Left which defends the interests of the workers and poor! On 20 May there were Presidential elections in Venezuela. According to final results, Maduro won with 6.2 million votes, ahead of Henri Falcon (a general and ex state governor of Lara who went […]

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Venezuela: Imperialist offensive sharpens following Assembly elections

Only the working class taking power from capitalists and bureaucrats can defeat reaction On 30 July elections were held to elect members of the “National Constituent Assembly” (ANC). In the days prior to the election, US imperialism and the MUD (the coalition which unites the right and far-right in Venezuela) backed a campaign of threats […]

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