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Was it a coup?

Todd Chretien — 2021-01-08T13:34:56Z

“But defeating Trump at the polls, and today's fiasco, has given us some breathing space. We must use it well. The results today in Georgia, Black Lives Matter, teachers and nurses' strikes, MeToo, and the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America all indicate the direction we must take.”

- Debate / United States (USA), Debate section

Brazil rocked by the return of mass protest

Gibran Jordo , Todd Chretien — 2017-05-31T12:32:39Z

Brazilian President Michel Temer's conservative government is reeling in the face of an explosive corruption scandal. After a period of confusion and demoralization following the impeachment of Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff last spring, workers and students appear to have found their voices again and are pouring into the streets to oppose Temer. On April 28, tens of millions of Brazilian workers participated in the largest general strike ever conducted in the Western hemisphere, and a national mobilization dubbed Occupy BrasÃlia—Brazil's federal capital—on May 24 will be a major show of force against Temer's neoliberal reforms to Brazil's pension system.

- IV508 - May 2017

Where do socialists belong?

Todd Chretien — 2015-09-18T13:47:25Z

IN "Asking the Right Questions," a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay for Jacobin, Catarina PrÃncipe and Dan Russell argue that the strategy of building "mass workers parties" is the "only viable path toward an eventual rupture with not just austerity but capitalism itself."

Catarina and Dan have taken up important questions that arise for the left, based particularly on the experience in Greece, where radical left organizations participated in the formation of SYRIZA, the electoral coalition and then political party that came to power after elections earlier this year. As noted below, I agree with many of the points Catarina and Dan make in recounting the experience of the last eight months. But where their assertions about the left and "mass workers parties" become more generalized, I have questions and disagreements, which I want to lay out below in some detail.

- Perspectives in Greece / New parties of the left, Greek discussion