Steve Ellner

Venezuela Uncle Sam

Prioritising anti-US imperialism, Maduro’s Venezuela and the complexities of critical solidarity: An interview with Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner lays out his views on anti-US imperialism, how this should factor into the left’s appraisal of China and Latin America’s Pink Tide governments, and what this means for international solidarity activists.
Photo composition showing Antonio Gramsci’s face with butterflies and flowers. Photo: La Tinta

Applying/misapplying Gramsci’s passive revolution to Latin America

Steve Ellner — A distinction needs to be made between critical support for the Pink Tide and the passive revolution analysis that gets translated into frontal opposition to those governments.
María Corina Machado

In Venezuela, Washington and the mainstream media are backing global far right ally María Corina Machado

Steve Ellner — María Corina Machado’s rise as the supreme leader of the Venezuelan opposition is part of a worldwide trend in which far-right leaders and movements have achieved major inroads.
Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela’s presidential elections: Maduro plays hardball but there are drawbacks

Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela's electoral race.
PCV

Objective conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s defensive strategy and contradictions among the people

Steve Ellner — The war on Venezuela, along with other unfavorable conditions, lent itself to Maduro’s defensive strategy. However, that approach was not without a major risk.
Chavez Kirchner Lula

Prioritizing U.S. imperialism in evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide

Steve Ellner — Two conflicting leftist positions on Latin America’s wave of progressive governments known as the Pink Tide have become increasingly well-defined over the last two decades.
Lula

Brazil: What Washington most fears in president-elect Lula

Steve Ellner - What has Washington most worried is the reemergence of a powerful non-aligned movement and the prospect that a progressive like Lula be situated at its helm.

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