The Zapatistas – the first revolutionaries of the new age
Mike Gonzalez looks at how events in Chiapas have unfolded since 1994 and assesses the latest developments as Mexico elects a woman president for the first time.
Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself”
As violence escalates in Haiti, we republish this statement by Robert Roth which identifies US and UN intervention as the source of the crisis.
Into the abyss: On the Argentinian elections.
As Argentina lurches to the right, Adam Fabry analyses the rise of Javier Milei
A small earthquake in Chile, 1970-73
Mike Gonzalez writes about the 1973 coup in Chile and the lessons it offers for the struggle for socialism today.
Extracts from Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
On the possibility of socialist revolution and the tragedy of the Egyptian revolution.
Review | Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age
Andy N reviews Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age, a new collection discussing political upheavals since 1989. He finds a wide ranging and insightful work, which will deepen both the theory and practice of the modern left. Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, and Neil Davidson, Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021) 410 […]
Colombia: ‘the hegemony of the right is cracking up’
The mass movement has forced the withdrawal of President Iván Duque’s tax reform proposal and has shed light on a much broader situation of discontent.
Interview | Sanctions and ‘shock doctrine’ in Venezuela
In Venezuela, US sanctions are worsening a parlous economic situation and exacerbating a social crisis. What’s the way forward?
Revolutionary Reflections | Anti-extractivism and radical politics in Ecuador
Melissa Moreano Venegas looks at the forthcoming presidential election in Ecuador through the lens of Thea Riofrancos’ recent analysis of extractivism and its opponents.
Bolsonaro stumbles in Brazilian mid-term elections
A year of community organising against the pandemic propelled Brazilian socialist activists to several major breakthroughs in last month’s elections.
Bolivia’s MAS comeback
In late 2019, Evo Morales was toppled in Bolivia by a right-wing coup. Barely a year later, the Movement towards Socialism has recaptured power.
Bolivia after Evo
Mike Gonzalez analyses the presidency of Evo Morales, who became President of Bolivia in 2005 at the head of a powerful mass movement, and was ultimately ousted in a right-wing coup last year.
Colombia: mass movement takes up fight against police violence
Mass protests against state and paramilitary violence have shaken Colombia. The brutal right-wing government in Bogotá are responding with fierce repression and indiscriminate killings of political activists.
Brazil: Bolsonaro attempts genocide of Indigenous peoples
Brazil’s far-right government has used Covid-19 as a weapon against Indigenous peoples
Coronavirus in Latin America
The experience of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America exposes the brutality of a global capitalist system in its most naked forms.
Bolivia after the coup
The re-capture of power in Bolivia by traditional elites, backed by US imperialism, has legitimised racism and a wave of repression. But the MAS may be beginning a process of democratic renewal.
Bolivia #ThisIsACoup
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has been forced from office in a coup following two weeks of civil unrest and a disputed presidential election.
Popular uprising and the fight for independence in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s mass movement and general strike have brought a corrupt US-backed neoliberal administration to its knees
Venezuela on the brink
Mike Gonzalez looks at the crisis unfolding in Venezuela and its roots in the political and economic developments of the last two decades
Anti-imperialist resistance against the coup
“From our many different countries, we will join in united anti-imperialist actions to condemn this attempted coup in Venezuela.”
Video: The right in Latin America
Watch Mike Gonzalez, Neil Davidson and activists from ResistBrazil discuss the social and political situation in Latin America
Brumadinho collapse: a crime, not an accident
Hundreds are dead or missing after a catastrophic dam collapse in Brazil. The culprits are a mining conglomerate with a record of murderous negligence
Favourites of 2018: rs21 reviewers recommend…
Our reviewers recommend the music, films, books, exhibitions and TV they discovered in 2018.
Bolsonaro elected president of Brazil: how did we get to this point?
Following the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, Marcelo Badaró Mattos asks how we got here.
Weathering the storm
Reflections on the election of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil by Lisa Leak, who spent Election Day with anti-fascists and feminists outside the Brazilian Embassy.
Video: Ele Não! Brazilians protest Jair Bolsonaro
rs21 spoke to Brazilians protesting against far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro as the country went to the polls for the first round of voting
The people versus the parliament in Argentina
The Argentine Senate’s vote against legal abortion is a bitter setback – but Argentine women will not be silenced
Nicaragua: the epilogue
The violent suppression of anti-austerity protests in Nicaragua marks another nadir in the long decline of Sandinismo
“Marielle’s death was not just more of the same”
The assassination of Marielle Franco marks a new phase in Brazil’s political repression of the left.
No caricatures: the new far right party in Brazil
Miguel Borba de Sá looks at the prospects for far right politics in Brazil. Miguel is an International Relations lecturer and radical socialist militant from the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) based in Rio de Janeiro. He is a member of the Institute for Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone and the Jubilee South Americas network. […]