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South Africa is in serious trouble. Inequality is worse than under apartheid, and unemployment is at over 40%. On the face of it things could hardly be more propitious for a left challenge. But as the hegemony of the ANC crumbles, the left is not a player in electoral politics.
The question of whether Marx was Eurocentric or not is a complex one that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. Marx’s later writings demonstrate a greater awareness of the global dimensions of capitalism and the specificities of non-European societies.
Venezuela has demonstrated some general principles: firstly, that you do need power to change the world and, secondly, that you change that world by using the old state to create the conditions by which people develop their capacities and build the new state from below.
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.
When it comes to countries in Asia building socialism, not too many think of Laos. This mountainous country sits in the center of Southeast Asia and has lived through French and Japanese colonialism, civil war, and years of military attacks by the United States.
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.
From 1999 to 2013, his administrations began a set of transformations that remain as a benchmark for the Latin American social struggle.
The Alí Primera and Hugo Chávez communards of Venezuela tell the story of their struggle for land and its deep historical roots.
Amongst the successes of the Cuban Revolution is Cuba’s unequaled solidarity with the world. Fidel’s “doctors, not bombs” speech implicitly contrasted his country with the US, which is by far the world’s largest arms supplier while helping less and less with humanitarian aid.
Tony Boza is a Venezuelan economist. In this interview, he discusses the changes in Venezuelan economy when Chávez came into power , and also examines the impact of the U.S. blockade. He next explores the economic policies currently applied in Venezuela.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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