October 1, 2024
Steve Ellner deconstructs the argument that Pink Tide governments elected since 2018 are in a state of “passive revolution,” having betrayed their progressive roots through concessions to conservative elements and capital. This analysis, Ellner finds, fails to capture the material impacts of Pink Tide governments, their strategic importance, or their potential to pull societies toward a more radical leftist future.
May 1, 2024
The International Monetary Fund, part of the Bretton Woods Agreement that helped establish the current rules of the U.S.-dominated international capitalist system, claims to aim for a world of prosperity through so-called free trade. In Latin America, David Barkin and Juan Santarcángelo write, the IMF has contributed to the impoverishment of the working class and destruction of these countries’ ecological legacies. But what does the future hold for the IMF in Latin America?
January 1, 2024
Oscar Feo Istúriz is a professor at the University of Carabobo and the Bolívar-Marx Institute of Advanced Studies, both in Venezuela. He was also coordinator of the health commission in… READ MORE
April 1, 2023
Andy Higginbottom is a former associate professor at Kingston University, London. He continues as an independent scholar and activist. The publication in English of Ruy Mauro Marini’s The Dialectics of… READ MORE
March 1, 2023
Steve Ellner is a retired professor from the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 to 2003, and is currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives…. READ MORE
November 1, 2020
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval is a professor in and the chair of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Chicana and Chicano Studies Department. He is the author of Starving for Justice: Hunger… READ MORE
February 1, 2020
Marc Becker is a professor of Latin American history at Truman State University. He has published numerous books and articles on José Carlos Mariátegui, Latin America, and indigenous history, including… READ MORE
October 1, 2019
� This exchange between Marta Harnecker and Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou was conducted in advance of the conference on 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: Reflections for the Twenty-First Century, held… READ MORE
October 1, 2018
From Guatemala, from El Salvador,�Honduras they travel overland�with little, with nothing but hope�out of terror, from rape and murder � with daughters and sons. babies�they hope they’re carrying to safety.�They… READ MORE
November 1, 2017
Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part-time in New Mexico and Illinois. He is coauthor, with the Working… READ MORE
