The processes of construction of the new mass political projects developed in Latin America at the end of the 20th century were characterised by their diversity of origin, structure and functioning. Their experiences involved a break with the classical schemas of construction of working class parties, that can be characterised as ideologically closed and in many cases sectarian, invariably oscillating between vanguardism and adaptation.
Old and new forms of struggle
10 February 2001, byIn the final days of November 2000 workers in Argentina observed a 36-hour General Strike, called by the country’s three major trade union federations. New forms of struggle were used that grew out of the past and were generalised in this strike. This article attempts to give an account of these events.
A view on the developments and prospects in the Philippines today
10 February 2001, byIt all started with the issue of opening of an envelope (so it seemed) in an impeachment trial in the Philippine Senate against the then President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. But it ended the latter’s term in a very inglorious manner.
Return from Vietnam 2000
10 February 2001, by“We are witnessing a paradox: the market economy needs a certain degree of democracy to function and to a certain extent that allows the real opponents of this economy to express themselves. That was unthinkable seven or 8 years ago.”
Georges Boudarel is discussed again in Vietnam...
10 February 2001, by ,It’s comforting to discover a current Vietnamese text which pays tribute to Georges Boudarel. His story began in February 1991 when Jean-Jacques Beucler, a former deputy in the French parliament and a prisoner of the VietMinh from 1950 to 1954, accused Boudarel of having directed a camp for French POWs and of having blood on his hands.
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