Latin America

In an historic victory for the working class — one that will have a political impact on the upcoming national election — Brazil’s chamber of deputies voted to end the odious “6x1” work week, writes Israel Dutra.

Realignments since January 3 have served to strengthen US control over Venezuela, but the conditions for recolonization were set in place years before, contends Luís Bonilla-Molina.

Fuel shortages, inflation, and political exclusion have triggered a wave of fragmented unrest with no clear movement capable of channeling popular anger, writes Angus McNelly.

Statements opposing US indictment of Raúl Castro by Socialist Alliance (Australia), Socialist Party of Malaysia and Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring Masses, the Philippines).

Originally conceived as a strategy for regime change — which has failed — the sanctions policy has successfully mutated into a form of collective punishment, writes La Joven Cuba editorial board.

Eric Toussaint looks at the great public debate on the nature of the economy that occurred after the 1959 Cuban revolution, involving Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Mora, Ernest Mandel, and Charles Bettelheim.

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski and Adrianna Nowak reconstruct the long Cuban struggle to preserve revolutionary autonomy within an unequal alliance with the Soviet Union.

The expansion of US sanctions against Cuba since 2017 have likely been the primary cause for a major rise in infant mortality in Cuba, writes Dan Beeton.

Domingo Pérez Valenzuela discusses the resurgence of Chilean trade unionism, strengths and limitations of its strike model, and what lessons the country’s recent labour struggles offer for labour renewal internationally.

Julio Carranza argues that Cuban society is suffering from an economic and social crisis whose most severe phase began in 2020, and whose causes are manifold.

The rich and powerful hate Cuba because it does so much better than the US in caring for its own people, explains Don Fitz.

Peter Rosset, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa and Edgardo Lander debate the meaning of Maduro’s kidnapping, how the left should judge the Bolivarian project, and how to show solidarity with Venezuela.