Bolivia

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.
America Latina en la encrucijada global Claudio Katz

The Latin American left amid China, the United States, late progressivism and the far right

Eric Toussaint — Claudio Katz's new book, Latin America at the Global Crossroads, concentrates on the continent’s relations with China and with US imperialism.
Alvaro Garcia Linera

Álvaro García Linera: ‘In turbulent times, moderation means defeat for the left’

Álvaro García Linera discusses the current deadlock in the struggle for hegemony, the failures and horizons of progressive politics in Latin America, and the growth and limitations of the right.

Bolivia’s ‘process of change’ needs a change in course – Pablo Solón

Introduction and translation by Richard Fidler September 8, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left with permission — The global drop in commodity prices has been detrimental to the development strategy of many Latin American governments, some of which had used the new income from increased exports of largely unprocessed resources, accompanied by higher royalties and taxes, during the last decade to reduce poverty levels and reinforce and institute new social programs, while attempting to create new industries oriented to the domestic market or adding value to their exports.

A tactical defeat in Bolivia: Evo's re-election referendum defeat and the future of the process of change

By Alfredo Rada Vélez, Bolivian vice-minister for coordination with social movementsMarch