International Socialism
Menu Close
  • Latest issue
  • Back issues
  • Links
  • Resources
  • Translations
  • Subscribe
  • About

Latin America

Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 30th October 2024 by International Socialism

An excellent May-June issue of New Left Review contains several strong articles. They include a fabulous interview of Rashid Khalidi, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, conducted by the veteran socialist activist and writer Tariq Ali. The discussion goes… Continue Reading →

Pick of the quarter Capital, Latin America, Palestine

Javier Milei, the far right and resistance in Argentina

Posted on 11th April 2024 by International Socialism

On 10 December 2023, Javier Milei was inaugurated as the president of Argentina. He came to power on the back of a barnstorming campaign, sweeping aside the traditional parties and winning 56 percent of the vote in the second round… Continue Reading →

Analysis Argentina, Latin America, the far right

Notes for a political economy of Bolsonarism: Brazilian specificities of the global far right

Posted on 3rd July 2022 by International Socialism

On 2 October 2022, the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections will be held, with a second round scheduled for 30 October 2022.1 At the time of writing, the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, has 27 percent of votes, according to… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Latin America

Year Zero 1989: two Trotskyisms and the workers’ movement in Brazil

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by International Socialism

Could the workers’ movement of Brazil have become a global epicentre for resistance to the intensification of the neoliberal onslaught on trade unions, pay, jobs and hard won welfare, pensions and health rights in the 1990s?1 Neoliberalism thrived on the… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brazil, Latin America, Reformism, Trotskyism

Uncontrolled predatory capitalism: the core of Bolsonaro’s government

Posted on 14th October 2019 by International Socialism

On 8 August 2019 the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, hailed a former torturer—Brilhante Ustra—as a “national hero”.1 This gesture may be very enlightening, explaining who Bolsonaro is: a genealogy of his own roots in the Brazilian Army would connect him… Continue Reading →

Article Brazil, Latin America, the far right

Cuba, the Pink Tide and revolution in Latin America

Posted on 16th July 2019 by Camilla

In October 2019 International Socialism organised a series of events on Cuba and Latin America in London (26 October), Manchester (27 October) and Glasgow (29 October). Speakers included: Frank Garcia Hernandez: an academic and critical Marxist speaker from Cuba. Claudia… Continue Reading →

Conferences & day schools Cuba, Latin America, Venezuela

Class battles in Latin America

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

A review of Mike Gonzalez, The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America (Pluto Press, 2018), £19.99 In January this year, the Venezuelan right launched an attempted coup against the government of Nicolás Maduro,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Latin America, Venezuela

Where is Venezuela going?

Posted on 5th October 2017 by Camilla

A profound economic, political and institutional crisis is sweeping Venezuela. The economy is suffering a deep recession triggered most of all by the collapse of the international price of oil, which accounts for something like 95 percent of the country’s… Continue Reading →

Article Latin America, Venezuela

Latin America: the tide is turning

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

As 2012 nears its end a pattern is emerging in the political and economic picture of Latin America. It is surprising and contradictory, a dramatic example of the gulf that can open up between rhetoric and reality. After a decade… Continue Reading →

Analysis Latin America
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter



Sign up to our mailing list

/ ( mm / dd )

Tags

1968 Africa Anti-racism Arab revolution Brexit China Chris Harman Class Climate change Donald Trump Ecology Economics Education Egypt Environment European Union Fascism France Germany Greece imperialism Karl Marx Labour Party Lenin Middle East Palestine political economy Racism Reformism Revolution Russian Revolution Scotland Strikes Syria The Economic Crisis the far right The United States the working class Tories Trade unions United States USA women's liberation Women's oppression Working class
© 2025 International Socialism. (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original.