I. Latin America
July 1, 2010
Latin America was the first region in the world where neoliberal policies were introduced. Chile, my country, was used as a testing ground before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government implemented… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
II. Twenty-First Century Socialism
July 1, 2010
We have said that, in order to judge a government, it is not so important to consider the pace at which it advances as the direction it is taking. This… READ MORE
Conclusion
July 1, 2010
My reflections on the kind of political instrument needed to build twenty-first century socialism are intended to contribute to a larger body of thought about the horizon toward which a… READ MORE
Awakening in Oaxaca: Stirrings of the People’s Giant
June 1, 2010
Robert Joe Stout ([email protected]), former resident of Ireland, France, and Guatemala, now resides in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he freelances for a variety of trade and literary publications. He is the… READ MORE
El Salvador: Mining the Resistance
June 1, 2010
Gabriel Zucker (gabriel.zucker [at] yale.edu) is an undergraduate at Yale University, where he is double majoring in ethics, politics, and economics (EP&E) and music, and is co-director of the Yale… READ MORE
How to Visit a Socialist Country
April 1, 2010
Richard Levins ([email protected]) is a third generation subversive, an ex-farmer, ecologist, and veteran of the Puerto Rican independence movement, Science for the People, anti-war, Marxist education, and other good causes…. READ MORE
Saving History from Oblivion in Guerrero
March 1, 2010
Peter Watt ([email protected]) is a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His teaching and research interests include contemporary Mexico, U.S./Latin American relations, new social movements in… READ MORE
Margaret Randall’s Years in Cuba
March 1, 2010
Margaret Randall, To Change the World: My Years in Cuba (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009), 256 pages, $24.95, paperback. Mickey Ellinger ([email protected]) and Jody Sokolower ([email protected]) are writers and… READ MORE
A Theory of Globalized Capitalism
October 1, 2009
William I. Robinson, Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008), 412 pages, $55.00, hardcover. Jeffery R. Webber is assistant professor of… READ MORE
Learning from ALBA and the Bank of the South: Challenges and Possibilities
September 1, 2009
Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and is the author with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2005). A version of this… READ MORE