International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The scandalous position of the SÃ£o Paulo forum on Nicaragua

Ernesto Herrera — 2018-10-26T05:15:15Z

July 2018, Havana. On the podium of Heads of State: Miguel DÃaz Canal, RaÃºl Castro (President-Elect and President of Cuba), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) opened the sessions of the XXIV SÃ£o Paulo Forum (SPF), the annual summit of Latin American progressivism.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Latin America, Future of socialism (Latin American debate), Nicaragua

Conclat, a setback that cannot be hidden

Ernesto Herrera — 2010-09-15T17:52:51Z

The call for a congress for the formation of a new Brazilian trade union federation - the Congress of the Working Class (Conclat) - aroused enthusiasm. The Conclat proposed to unify, in a new class-conscious federation, trade union, popular and student currents resisting the offensive of the Lula Government and the employers. At the same time, this new federation had to confront existing ones (the CUT, Força Sindical and so on) which submit to the Government and the capitalist order.

- IV428 - September 2010 / Brazil

Progresismo and the neoliberal matrix

Ernesto Herrera — 2005-09-23T20:04:23Z

The leftwing coalition Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria triumphed at the Uruguayan elections of October 31, 2004, with Tabaré Vázquez of the Socialist Party being elected president in the first round with 51% of the vote (see IV 363, January 2005). The new president assumed office in March 2005 - Ernesto Herrera examines the record so far of his “progresista” government.

- IV370 - September 2005 / Uruguay

“Change without rupture” or “Reformism without reforms”!

Ernesto Herrera — 2005-01-05T00:00:00Z

The leftwing coalition Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria triumphed at the Uruguayan elections of October 2004. We publish here an interview with Ernesto Herrera which was carried out before the elections and which presents the viewpoint of Corriente de Izquierda.

- IV363 - January 2005 / Uruguay

Between 'argentinazo' and 'Lula effect'

Ernesto Herrera — 2003-03-07T00:00:00Z

If in the streets of Venezuela a decisive political and social confrontation is unfolding, the experience of the Argentine events and Lula's victory in the Brazilian presidential elections once again poses strategic questions for the left and the social movements.

- IV348 - March 2003 / Latin America

A scenario of chaos

Ernesto Herrera — 2002-10-11T00:00:00Z

General strikes of students, civil servants and university teachers, occupations of university faculties and high schools, workers' strikes, rebellion in the poorest neighbourhoods with spontaneous 'lootings' against hunger. Popular soup kitchens sprouting up everywhere around the country.

- IV344 - October 2002 / Uruguay

PST-CI: first conference of FI supporters

Ernesto Herrera — 2002-10-11T00:00:00Z

On June 15-16, 2002 the PST-CI (a nucleus of supporters of the Fourth International inside the Corriente de Izquierda) held its first Conference since the split in the Uruguayan 'section' of the FI in March 2001.

- IV344 - October 2002 / Uruguay

PT left criticizes alliance with right

Ernesto Herrera — 2002-09-12T00:00:00Z

The alliance of Brazil's Workers' Party (PT) with the conservative and evangelical Partido Liberal (PL) and with a sector of the Partido Movimiento Democratico de Brazil (PMBD) has generated deep internal debate in the party and strong resistance from its militants.

- IV343 - September 2002 / Brazil

The current situation and the tasks of revolutionaries

Ernesto Herrera — 2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

At the moment that the United States announced the conclusion of its massive bombardments in Afghanistan and the reestablishment of 'order' in that strategic area of the planet, in Latin America the myth of the invincibility of the 'neo-liberal model' collapsed. The opening of a revolutionary process in Argentina accelerated the crisis of bourgeois political leadership in a context of socio-economic debacle, resistance, protest and social rebellion.

- IV342 - July/August 2002 / Latin America

Birth of our power

Ernesto Herrera — 2002-03-07T00:00:00Z

Some images recall the Paris Commune of 1871. Not because they are comparable events, of course, but because they bring to mind Marx's phrase, 'the political form at last discovered'. Pre-revolutionary crisis, dual power, revolutionary days, insurrectionary situation.

- IV338 - March 2002 / Argentina