An inverse transition: Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s first post-Chavista president
Social movements in the region are resisting anti-popular policies. But Chavismo’s state restructuring and austerity faces no opposition in Venezuela. Manuel Azuaje Reverón explains why.
In power for just six months, the government of Bolivia’s centre-right president Rodrigo Paz Pereira hangs in the balance, writes Forrest Hylton.
Trumpism, Mamdani and the revolutionary party we need
Paul Le Blanc responds to criticism of his recent text on the situation in the United States, “Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump”.
The ‘Start of Summer’ Festival at the crossroads of Cuba’s political project
Cuba’s “heroic resistance” takes many forms, writes Rubén Padrón Garriga. While some cannot sleep due to heat and blackouts, others dance to the beat of reggaeton in a hotel pool.
Claudio Katz: ‘The Argentine left must aim to govern with a strategy for power’
Claudio Katz assesses socialist MP Myriam Bregman’s newfound prominence in Argentine politics and some of the debates this has provoked on the left.
What the anti-Hanson movement of the 1990s achieved — and what it didn’t
A movement declared victorious while the politics it was fighting are being institutionalised is not a movement that won, argues Lisbeth Latham.
The state and its workers: China’s class politics after 1989
Yueran Zhang studies the domestic impacts of the post-1989 reforms, shedding light on the neglected story of class-political transformations that attended China’s global rise.
Social murder: Pandemic profits and vaccine apartheid
Life-saving drugs are produced only if they can generate profits that capitalists consider acceptable. The result, argues Ian Angus, is social murder.
On Trump and Trumpism: Inventory versus state form
Replying to Paul Le Blanc, Anthony Teso contends that socialist analysis must identify the structure it confronts and the organisation capable of defeating it, rather than merely registering dangers and applauding resistance.
Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump
Paul Le Blanc looks at the underlying ideology and social forces behind the Trump regime, and explores the strengths and limitations of the growing anti-Trump resistance.
Trumpism: A patrimonial Bonapartism regime
Anthony Teso argues why Trumpism represents a form of patrimonial Bonapartism and how this analysis can help the left understand what it must do differently in response.
‘Surprise’ election result poses new challenges for Colombia’s left
The rapid rise of a far-right candidate in the presidential campaign should not have been a surprise. A left win in the second round won’t be easy, but the battle is far from over, writes Ana Cristina Carvalhaes.
