Alina Bárbara López Hernández
In the closing address to the tenth congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR -the street level vigilance committees) that took place on September 28 of this year, the president of the Cuban . . .
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It is undeniabe that Luis Arce, the President of Bolivia, is no longer responding to the demands of his ex-boss, former President Evo Morales.
Protests that are part of an Indigenous-led national shutdown in Guatemala
As I write (and you read) these lines, two intellectuals, two friends, are persecuted by the respective governments of their countries. Alina Barbara López Hernández in Cuba, and Boris Kagarlitsky in Rusia.
An alternative policy for Haiti in crisis
We must continue to remember so that no one is forgotten, so that no face is forgotten, and so that our experience is not forgotten.
review
In their review of Gaudichaud et al.’s book, “The Impasse of the Latin American Left,” Paley and Whitener call for greater focus on autonomous social movements.
Raymar Aguado Hernández denounces Cuban state repression of critical leftists
Lynn Cruz calls for situating Cuban politics in the context of the world capitalist system
Alina Bárbara López Hernández rejects the Cuban state’s claim to be on the left.
James Buckwalter-Arias introduces the collection of contributions from critical leftists in Cuba.
Alexander Hall Lujardo develops the emancipatory anti-capitalist critique of Cuban state socialism.
Lisbeth Moya González discusses how the international left can be in solidarity with the critical Cuban left.
A Relational Genealogy of the Puerto Rican Left Since the 1990s
José A. Laguarta Ramírez presents an in-depth discussion of the history of the Puerto Rican radical left.
Adolfo Gilly, one of the great Latin American left intellectuals of his time, has died at the age of 94.
Daniel Ortega and what remains of the Sandinista Front present themselves as left-wing and anti-imperialist, but, far from this proclaimed discourse, they have for many years already abandoned their principles…
Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary is dead. I met him once back in 1996. It was an experience of magical realism.
Elections are superimposed on social struggles through a process that obscures and disorganizes them, and that recodifies grassroots demands, altering and distorting their language and content.
US Subsecretary of State Wendy Sherman’s April visit to Santo Domingo served to ratify the strategic character of the Dominican regime’s subordination to the US and to iron out the differences that arose during the year . . .
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Residents and migrants in Ciudad Juárez have ramped up protest in the wake of the fire that killed forty men detained by the National Migration Institute.
In the month of the first anniversary of Russia’s illegal and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky held a speech at the European Parliament, where he declared Russia to be “the biggest anti-European force of the modern world”[1]. By . . .
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