The dramatic fall of Chile as Latin America’s neoliberal role model
By Ariela Ruiz Caro
Chile's struggle to democratize the state
By J. Patrice McSherry
March 2, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from NACLA — The social uprising in Chile has now reached its fourth month. Masses of people continue to protest and demand structural change despite ferocious repression—mainly at the hands of the militarized Carabineros police force—which has revived traumatic memories. Now, Chileans are looking ahead to a plebiscite that may open the way to a new Constitution. The dictatorship-era charter has been a major obstacle to change over the past three decades. Redrafting the constitution is a key demand in Chileans’ sweeping rebuke of the status quo.
Colombia: After the social explosion of November 2019
By Daniel Libreros C
By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman
A Green New Deal for South African workers?
By Carilee Osborne
Britain: Analysing a disastrous result
By Socialist Resistance Editorial Board
Speech given by Michael Heinrich at 12th Subversive festival "Europe on the Edge – Towards New Emancipatory Imagination" Moderated by Stipe Ćurković.
February 13, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal via SkriptaTV — The first volume of Capital appeared more than 150 years ago. However, it didn’t just picture capitalism of 19 th century. Marx didn’t want to present a certain period of capitalist development, he claimed to present the capitalist mode of production in its “ideal average”, i.e. the core of capitalist relations, which are connected with any form of capitalism. I will discuss this claim especially with regard to value, money, crisis and class relations.
‘Capitalism, patriarchy, and racism now threaten to destroy this world’
By Dr. Laurie Adkin, introduction by Richard Fidler