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Extracting the Andes

Jeffery R Webber — 2020-12-22T10:40:04Z

“There are few better guides than Planetary Mine to the possible economic and technological futures of Latin American likely to emerge in the wake of COVID-19”

- Reviews section / Chile, Latin America, Reviews

Choosing between life or Capital in Latin America:

Jeffery R Webber — 2020-05-19T06:48:20Z

Róbert Nára interviewed Jeffery R. Webber for the summer 2020 issue of Marxist Left Review published by Socialist Alternative, Australia.

- IV544 - May 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Covid-19 Pandemic

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho

Forrest Hylton, Jeffery R Webber — 2019-11-29T20:03:42Z

In office since 2006, Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, has been overthrown in a coup d'état. Debate on how this happened and what it all means has been proliferating on the international left. Ashley Smith talked with Jeffery R. Webber and Forrest Hylton, two long-time observers of Bolivia, to get a better sense of the issues at stake.

- IV538 - November 2019

Bolivian Horizons: An Interview with Pablo Solón

Jeffery R Webber — 2019-10-28T09:40:34Z

Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday, October 20, 2019. According to the country's electoral system, in order to avoid a second round in presidential elections the leading candidate must secure 51 percent of the vote, or more than 40 percent of the vote and a lead of 10 percent over the second place candidate.

- IV537 - October 2019

The Left and Right in Latin America Today: An Interview with Claudio Katz

Claudio Katz, Jeffery R Webber — 2019-06-21T08:25:26Z

On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment. We discussed themes from his last two books, Neoliberalismo, neodesarrollismo, socialismo (Neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism, 2016) and La teorÃa de la dependencia, cincuenta aÃ±os después (Dependency theory, fifty years later, 2018), as well as the complexities of the current regional conjuncture. In an incisive and wide-ranging survey, Katz explains the root causes and timing of the decline of the latest wave of Latin American progressive governments. At the same time, he emphasizes the fragility of the “conservative restoration” as it has unfolded in its wake, captured most eloquently perhaps in the paralysis of the Jair Bolsonaro government in Brazil.

- Features / United States (USA), Brazil, Economy, China, Venezuela, Argentina, Latin America, Ecuador

One question: Class struggle today

2018-12-03T22:58:20Z

One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

This month we ask:

What does class struggle mean today?

- Features / Marxism

The retreat of the pink tide in Latin America

Jeffery R Webber, Phil Gasper — 2018-08-27T08:07:50Z

Jeffery R. Webber is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He spoke with ISO editorial board member Phil Gasper on April 5, the morning after the Brazilian Supreme Court voted to imprison the country's former president, Lula da Silva.

- Features / Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia

Assessing the Pink Tide

Jeffery R Webber — 2017-04-20T09:13:46Z

Assessing the Pink Tide
Pink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.

- IV507 - April 2017 / Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Latin America, Ecuador, Bolivia, Future of socialism (Latin American debate)

The Revolution Will Not Be Decreed

Jeffery R Webber, Susan Spronk — 2012-08-16T17:24:51Z

In Caracas, we caught up with Gonzalo Gómez, a founder of the radical website aporrea.org and militant in the Trotskyist organization, Marea Socialista. In this interview, Gonzalo describes his own path to militancy, the different phases of the Bolivarian process, and the dangers of bureaucracy, the “bolibourgeoisie”, and the stultifying internal life of the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV). He also stresses the centrality of the creativity and dynamism of social movements from below, the complexities of workers' control, and the dynamics of the current conjuncture prior to the October 7, 2012 general elections.

- IV451 - August 2012 / Venezuela

Voices from Venezuela

Jeffery R Webber, Susan Spronk — 2010-09-06T09:52:22Z

In mid-June 2010, Jeffery R. Webber and Susan Spronk interviewed three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process.

- IV428 - September 2010 / Venezuela