100 Days of Lula’s Presidency: What has Changed in Brazil Since January 1?
Lula’s administration has significantly shifted the direction of politics in Brazil, sharply departing from his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
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Prioritizing U.S. Imperialism in Evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide
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. One position is favorable, while the other highly critical.
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Sub-Imperialism and Multipolarity: Brazil’s Dilemma
A look at sub-imperialism and multipolarity in Brazil historically and into the future.
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The U.S. Blockade and its Effects on Cuban Medicine
The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes, the United States’ sixty-year long blockade has tremendously detrimental effects on Cuban life in general, and their healthcare system in particular.
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Paulo Freire: Education, Schooling and Social Change
The work of Brazilian philosopher-educator Paulo Freire continues to have great relevance in the world today.
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Brazil: Life Inside an MST Landless Workers’ Settlement
For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s MST has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation of fallow lands. A report from MST land in the state of Paraná, where landless workers have built their own homes, schools, farms, and cooperatives.
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An Army of Women Is Building Venezuela’s Housing Revolution
In Caracas, an army of self-trained women are working to build their own homes while they transform the reality around them.
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A Socialist Survival Tactic: Cuba’s Worker Parliaments
Following the collapse of the USSR and European socialism roughly 35 years ago, the US sought to crush Cuba through a merciless blockade. Cuba turned this dangerous situation around, thanks to the efforts of committed revolutionaries like Pedro Ross, who helped found the workers’ parliaments.
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From Lebanon to Sri Lanka through Latin America and Egypt: Public Debt Today and in the History of Capitalism
This interview helps to understand the part played by debt and its mechanisms in the extraction of resources of the South by the North at an international level, and in the transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich within each society.
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Indigenous Rebellion Continues as Post-Coup Peruvian Government Flounders
Revived democratic struggle in Peru is well along into a second act. Following the parliamentary coup on December 7 that removed democratically elected President Pedro Castillo, embittered Peruvians occupied Lima and faced violent repression. The struggles renewed again on March 1.
