December 1, 2004
New Political Science, a journal associated with the Caucus for a New Political Science, has devoted its entire September 2004 number to “The Politics of Empire, Terror and Hegemony.” The… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
Marta Harnecker is director of the Centro de Investigaciones Memoria Popular Latinoamericana (MEPLA) in Havana, Cuba, an organization for research on the history of popular movements in Latin America. She… READ MORE
November 1, 2004
David Raby is a research fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Latin American Studies.This essay originally appeared as “Shanties into Ploughshares” on the Red Pepper Web site. With… READ MORE
October 1, 2004
For more than a decade now the major corporate media and the U.S. government have been celebrating the growing “democratization” of Latin America. Rather than reflecting a genuine concern with… READ MORE
September 1, 2004
The nations of the Caribbean have the world’s second highest HIV infection rates, after sub-Saharan Africa. One Caribbean nation, Cuba, however, has largely escaped the disease with only a 0.07… READ MORE
September 1, 2004
In 1976, a military dictatorship seized control of Argentina. A period of terror swept the land as 30,000 people were “disappeared.” The dictatorship, with the support of the United States,… READ MORE
June 1, 2004
“Puerto Rican Obituary” was first read in 1969 at a rally in support of the Young Lords Party, an anti-imperialist Latino youth group in New York. Like the Black Panther… READ MORE
March 1, 2004
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based organizing and education center formed to raise awareness in the United States of issues facing the nations and peoples… READ MORE
January 1, 2004
István Mészaros 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
January 1, 2004
Sinan Koont teaches economics and is coordinator of Latin American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He thanks numerous friends and colleagues in the United States and Cuba for… READ MORE
