Notes from the Editors, July-August 2007
July 1, 2007
At the end of May the Bush administration announced that the United States is planning on maintaining permanent military bases in Iraq on a model like that of South Korea,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
The Latin American Revolt: An Introduction
July 1, 2007
The revolt against U.S. hegemony in Latin America in the opening years of the twenty-first century constitutes nothing less than a new historical moment. Latin America, to quote Noam Chomsky,… READ MORE
ALBA: A New Dawn for Latin America
July 1, 2007
Ricardo Alarcón has been president of the National Assembly of Cuba since 1993. He has held various diplomatic posts following the Cuban revolution including permanent representative of Cuba to the… READ MORE
Mexico after the Elections: The Crisis of Legitimacy and the Exhaustion of Predatory Neoliberalism
July 1, 2007
Alejandro Álvarez Béjar is a socioeconomist and permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a member of the ‘68 Pro Democratic Freedoms… READ MORE
Oaxaca: Rebellion against Marginalization, Extreme Poverty, and Abuse of Power
July 1, 2007
B. Gloria Martínez González teaches economics at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and Alejandro Valle Baeza does the same at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1. New Social Struggles in Mexico In… READ MORE
Venezuela: A Good Example of the Bad Left of Latin America
July 1, 2007
Michael A. Lebowitz is author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press, 2006),… READ MORE
Bolívar and Chávez: The Spirit of Radical Determination
July 1, 2007
István Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the ‘American Century’ to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
Indigenous Peoples and the Left in Latin America
July 1, 2007
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a longtime activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Verso,… READ MORE
The Struggle for Bolivia’s Future
July 1, 2007
Federico Fuentes is a frequent writer for the Australian socialist newspaper, Green Left Weekly, and maintains the blog Bolivia Rising. After five hundred years of domination and colonialism, more than… READ MORE
Workers’ Power in Argentina: Reinventing Working Culture
July 1, 2007
Marie Trigona is an independent writer and radio producer based in Argentina. She can be reached at mtrigona [at] msn.com. Nearly six years since Argentina’s worst economic crisis in 2001,… READ MORE