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Fifty years of the transition to socialism

James D. Cockcroft — 2009-07-31T10:31:58Z

In his January 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President RaÃºl Castro, known popularly as RaÃºl, repeated Fidel's oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can't destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”

- IV414 - July 2009 / Cuba

Indigenous Peoples Rising in Bolivia and Ecuador

James D. Cockcroft — 2008-12-06T22:43:33Z

Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in solidarity with others to save the planet. They are calling for new, yet ancient, practices of plurinational, participatory, and intercultural democracy.

- IV407 - December 2008

New Challenges to Imperialism

James D. Cockcroft — 2006-06-28T18:01:48Z

Neoliberalism has produced a new wave of social movements in Latin America and leftward electoral swings. The social movements are protesting the privatization of nature, the commodification of life, and the pillage imposed by neoliberal globalization, together with the illegitimate, unpayable foreign debts passed down from the dictatorships.

- IV379 - June 2006 / Latin America

New advances, old problems

James D. Cockcroft , Susan Caldwell — 2004-03-17T00:00:00Z

At its fourth annual gathering, held January 16-21, 2004 in India's poverty-ridden financial hub of Mumbai, the World Social Forum (WSF) radicalized its demands and extended its reach and inter-group cooperation.

- IV357 - March 2004 / World, Social Forum

9-11 of the people: Chile 30 years on

James D. Cockcroft — 2003-12-18T00:00:00Z

When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a weeklong seminar called “30 Years - Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America”, I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalism. This model had been introduced after the September 11, 1973 US-assisted military coup d'état against President Salvador Allende, a democratically elected parliamentary socialist.

- IV355 - December 2003 / Chile

The Argentinazo one year on

James D. Cockcroft — 2003-02-03T00:00:00Z

"Without workers a factory does not function. But without bosses, yes, it functions — and very well indeed! With all the other comrades we are going to demonstrate that the nation functions with the hands of working people and not with the thieving hands of the politicians."

- IV347 - February 2003 / Argentina