Free Lula – Lula Livre!
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was officially nominated as the Workers Party (PT) candidate for the forthcoming Presidential election in Brazil at the party’s national convention held on Saturday 4 August.
Brazil
Economic lessons from the left governments in Latin America – and a comparison to China
Recent events in Latin America entirely refute the claim in the Western media that the right wing was carrying all before it in the continent.
Report on the 2018 São Paulo Forum in Havana
The 24th annual meeting of the São Paulo Forum gathered left-wing political parties from more than 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries between July 15th an 17th.
First they came for Lula and Kirchner, now it’s Correa
On 3 July the National Court of Justice of Ecuador ordered the preventive detention of the country’s former President Rafeal Correa and requested that he is extradited from Belgium where he is currently living.
Argentina and Brazil in turmoil
When the left in Latin America suffered a series of electoral setbacks and other defeats in major countries on the continent, including Brazil and Argentina, the pro-imperialist media of course rushed to claim that the Latin American right was now sweeping all before it after the failure of the left – of the ‘pink tide’ which has pushed most countries in the continent to the left in the period after 2000. This was always a delusion.
The Empire Strikes Back in Latin America – Dayschool Saturday 9 June
‘The Empire Strikes Back in Latin America – Understanding Trump and the Reactionary Right’ Summer Dayschool
Saturday 9 June