Election day came lazily in Santarém, a mid-sized city and trading entrepôt at the junction of the Amazon and Tapajós rivers, the halfway point between Amazônia’s primary metropolises of Manaus and Belém. The internet was out of service in this sleepy Amazonian town, as were two out of the four major cellphone carriers, and the streets were nearly empty.
Issue: Winter 2015
New Politics Vol. XV No. 2, Whole Number 58
The Workers Party’s Contradictions and the Contours of Crisis in Brazil
A View of National Electoral Politics from Brazil’s North and Northeast
Brazil: Lula, Rousseff, and the Workers Party Establishment in Power
Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) won Brazil’s presidential election on October 26, meaning that when her term ends her party will have held the nation’s top office for a remarkable 16 years, longer than any party in Brazilian history.
Elections in Chile
Historic Defeat of the Right or a Win for Post-Pinochet Neoliberalism?
“¿Qué Nueva, Qué Nueva, Qué Nueva Mayoría? ¡Si van a gobernar pa’ la misma minoría!” (“What New Majority? They’ll rule for the same old minority!”)
FEL student demonstrators
Austerity, Collapse, and the Rise of the Radical Left in Greece
This article and its title are based on a presentation made at the Mapping Socialist Strategies Conference, hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–New York Office at the Edith Macy Conference Center, New York, August 1-4, 2014.
Ferguson and Staten Island
Exemplars of America’s Racialized Capitalism
The killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, by police who were not indicted by grand juries in Missouri and New York, represent only the latest in a string of such police or vigilante killings—sometimes clearly murders—of African-American or Latino men.
From the Editors
Contemporary capitalist society faces multiple crises: environmental catastrophe, proliferating wars, multiplying authoritarian governments, inequality, poverty, and failing health and education systems. Everywhere new democratic and progressive social movements continue to arise, from Ferguson, Missouri, to the Climate March in New York City, to the movement for democracy in Hong Kong. And yet, in most countries the democratic socialist left is small, weak, and divided.
New Politics Vol. XV No. 2, Whole Number 58
From the Editors
Ferguson and Staten Island: Exemplars of America’s Racialized Capitalism, Dan La Botz, Stephen R. Shalom, and Julia Wrigley
The Left We Need
Towards A Transformational Strategy, N’Tanya Lee, Maria Poblet, Josh Warren-White, and Steve Williams on . . .
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