The election in Chile of the Marxist leader of the Socialist Party, Salvador Allende, to the presidency in October 1970 inaugurated a political situation unique in Latin America and of world-wide significance. Allende's Popular Unity coalition embraced Socialists and Communists and campaigned on an election programme of unprecedented radicalism - nothing less than the abolition of monopoly capitalism and imperialism in Chile. In this book, Regis Debray, recently released from his Bolivian gaol, questioned President Allende about his strategy for socialism. These discussions ranged widely over the history of the workers' movement in Chile, the strength of imperialism in Latin America, the experience of the first months of the Allende government, the role of the Chilean armed forces, Allende's personal background and friendship with Che Guevara, the seizure of land by peasants since the Popular Unity victory, and the international outlook of the new Chile. In an introductory essay, Debray furnished an analysis of Chilean history and politics which situated Allende in the past and present of the country and explored the dynamics of the class struggle now unfolding there. For this new anniversary edition, leading Chilean leftist scholar Camila Vergara has written a new introduction which appraises the book in the light of recent political developments in Chile.
Highlights The first English-language biography of one of Latin America's most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers. About the Author: Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. 248 Pages History, Latin America Description About the Book Mari+tegui is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the 20th century. Yet his life and work are largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this gripping political biography, Gonzalez introduces readers to the inspiring life and thought of the Peruvian socialist.alist. Book Synopsis The first English-language biography of one of Latin America's most important, innovative, and enduringly relevant, Marxist thinkers. Review Quotes "Mariátegui's Marxism involved a deep, almost archaeological, appreciation for the deposition and accumulation of Peruvian history's sedimentary layers. In his brief life he probed the complex particularities of that social formation across economics, history, politics, literature, and ideology. He intervened tirelessly in local affairs. At the same time, he knew these immediate, local concerns did not exist in pristine isolation from wider relations. With unparalleled determination, he insisted Peruvian reality could only be grappled with insofar as its innumerable entanglements with the rest of Latin America, and indeed the world-through the history of colonialism and capitalism-were fathomed and assimilated into revolutionary strategy. Latin America's socialist revolutions would never be a mere copy of European traditions, but they were nevertheless bound up in a shared universal project of emancipation. Mariátegui's heretical Marxism involved a utopian-revolutionary dialectic, in which select elements of indigenous communal traditions of the pre-capitalist past were combined with a forward-looking post-capitalist future, where the difference of the particular wasn't cancelled by the project of the universal. This impressive book by Mike Gonzalez turns Mariátegui's dialectic back on its author, parsing Mariátegui's life and work with all the necessary attentiveness to time and place, while simultaneously borrowing selectively from its riches to help reinvent a living Marxism and revolutionary politics adequate to our present." --Jeffery R. Webber, author of The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left "Mike Gonzalez has long championed José Carlos Mariátegui. His 2007 article in International Socialism is still one of the best introductions to Mariátegui, and if this book can bring this fascinating Latin American revolutionary to a wider English-speaking audience, so much the better." --Steve Cushion, author of A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution in The Chartist Praise for Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century: "Mike Gonzalez possesses a extraordinarily rich knowledge of the Latin American left, has engaged critically with the politics of modern military institutions, and has an abiding interest in independently-minded public figures. He has brought these singular attributes together in this lucid portrait of Hugo Chavez. " --Professor James Dunkerley, Queen Mary University "For activists and scholars alike, this is an excellent biography, which mirrors in its nuances and subtleties the complexity of the Bolivarian process and the figure of Chavez himself." --Jeffery R. Webber, Queen Mary University of London, author of The Last Day of Oppression and the First Day of The Same "A seminal work on the ideological and political formation of the former Venezuelan President and leading figure of twenty-first century socialism." --Francesco Di Bernardo, LSE Review of Books About the Author Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014)
The recent forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales has opened wide the ideological split currently dividing Latin American nations. While leftist governments like Mexico, Venezuela and Nicaragua have supported Morales and condemned the Bolivian coup, right-wing governments in Brazil, Peru and Colombia insist the people’s will is being played out and refuse to call Bolivia’s political crisis a coup.
January 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Here we look back at key events in a tumultuous half-century since Fidel Castro led his rebels into Havana to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Researched and written by Simone
Investigation finds USAid recruited musicians ‘to break information blockade’ as part of covert social project
Shortlisted for the 2018 Sussex International Theory PrizeThroughout the 2000s Latin America formed the leading edge of antineoliberal resistance. But what is left of the \"pink tide\" today? How have governments established in its wake related to a changing global economy and a right-wing resurgence? In this penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber traces evolving, often contradictory relationships between left-wing governments and the social movements that propelled them to power.
Mujeres llegadas de nueve de los once municipios del Departamento de Yoro se movilizaron por las calles de El Progreso el 8 de Marzo Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora y realizaron la Primera Asamblea Departamental de Mujeres del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular.La caminata solo de mujeres sorprendió a los progreseños y en su [...]
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashed out at Israel and condemned the killing of former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi while being sworn into office this week alongside Iran and Venezuela presidents.
A wide-ranging examination of Socialist Realism that shows it extended far beyond Eastern Europe. Was Socialist Realism Global? takes up a question that was posed by art historian Piotr Piotrowski in his final book. It offers new perspectives both on socialist realism in a strict sense and on aspects of politically and socially engaged art of the twentieth century that employed broadly understood figuration. Contributors to the volume shed light on the genealogy of figuration, relate socialist art and socialist realism from Europe to analogous artistic practices in Latin America and beyond, and more. To date, they argue, the rewriting of the artistic canon of the postcolonial world has failed to sufficiently underscore the fact that through the period of decolonization and Cold War divisions internationally, artists across half the globe were educated according to doctrines of real socialism. Contributors: Jerome Bazin, Kate Cowcher, Tatiana Flores, Joanna Kordjak, Partha Mitter, Yevheniia Moliar, Magdalena Moskalewicz, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Agata Pietrasik, Nadia Plungyan, Julia Secklehner, Zheng Shengtian, Mirela Tanta, Chuong-Dai Vo, Anthony Yung, and Carol Yinghua Lu 55 color plates, 7 halftones CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
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A collection of over 100 vintage travel posters of Latin America. A visual feast! Don't miss today's epic blast from the past.
Hugo Chavez first burst onto Venezuela's political scene in a failed military coup in 1992 - 20 years later he won a fourth presidential term that would have seen him continue in office until 2019.
Childless leader, who donates most of his money to social projects, plans to adopt dozens of 'poor kids' after term expires
Sunrise Sandwiches is the saga of a conservative Englishman and a socialist Fraulein backpacking throughout Latin America. Triumph and adversity alternate as improvised hotels and transport are confronted. Hugely Enjoyable.\nSunrise Sandwiches is the saga of a conservative Englishman and a socialist Fraulein backpacking throughout Latin America. Triumph and adversity alternate as improvised hotels and transport are confronted. Hugely enjoyable.
This rail system was the first in Latin America and among the oldest in the world.
In the face of ongoing attempts to violently depose the elected government of President Nicolas Maduro, the Socialist Alliance reaffirms its support and solidarity with the Venezuelan people, their government and the Bolivarian revolution. Contrary to claims by the corporate media and right-wing governments in the region, Venezuela is not witnessing a peaceful protest movement for democracy but rather its opposite: a counter-revolutionary wave of violence that seeks to provoke greater bloodshed, and potentially, an international intervention.
After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europe's former colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with neither the advanced capitalist "First World" nor with the socialist "Second World." In this historical context, the category of "Third World literature" emerged, a category that has itself spawned a whole industry of scholarly and critical studies, particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in the homelands of the Third World itself. Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize "Third World" literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on "colonial discourse" and "post-colonialism," dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term "Third World," and of the conditions under which so-called "colonial discourse theory" emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles. Erudite and lucid, Ahmad's remapping of the terrain of cultural theory is certain to provoke passionate response.
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The next generation of socialists believes that the intolerable cannot be tolerated. And if you believe that, you just might be a socialist yourself.
Seumas Milne: Not only have leaders from Ecuador to Venezuela delivered huge social gains – they keep winning elections too
A new album documents the life and death of Víctor Jara, a Chilean folk singer who became an international icon of resistance, writes Dorian Lynskey.
Fidel Castro, who towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world, is dead at age 90. His brother Raul announced the death late Friday night.
Security forces raiding Venezuela’s Tocorón prison discovered swimming pools and even a small zoo — what they didn’t find: Tocorón’s most notorious inmate.
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In the first United Nations vote on a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo against Cuba since the two countries renewed diplomatic ties in July, Cuba scored its biggest victory yet as the General Assembly voted 191-2 to adopt the resolution.
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