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The angry vote
October\'s mid-term elections in Argentina marked a significant turn in one of the deepest crises the country has ever faced. After more than three years of recession, savage cuts in wages and public services, a growing wave of increasingly militant social struggles, and with the prospect of total financial meltdown lurking just around the corner, everyone expected the ruling Alliance parties to take a beating at the polls. What wasn\'t [...]
Autonomy, war, globalisation
A WAR is raging in Colombia and many of those caught in the crossfire have been made invisible. Many readers have heard the statistics: a unionist is assassinated every three days; over the last ten years an average of one Indigenous leader has been murdered per week; 2 million of the 40 million (mainly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous) peoples have been violently displaced, living now as internal refugees. And all this before the recent launch of [...]
The unfolding design
Beyond the common condemnation of, and horror about, the tragedies of September 11 in New York and Washington there has emerged a serious political divide in India concerning the American proposals and preparations for fighting \"international terrorism\" through an international coalition of states led by itself. This is not the usual divide between Left and Right (though one can easily imagine where each would line up) but essentially between [...]
Latin America: Disciplining the back yard
Almost 2 million people are on the brink of famine in Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The effects of the succession of \"natural disasters\", the collapse of agricultural prices and the decomposition of the economies of the region also extends to Costa Rica and the entire coastal zone of the Gulf of Panama. International \"humanitarian aid\" is at a scandalous level: a dollar per person. However, this is not news any more. Since [...]
A strategy for victory
Brazil is facing a historic presidential election in 2002 which could see the victory of the candidate of the Workers Party, Lula. As the elections approach, debate is sharpening within the party. We present here the positions of the Socialist Democracy (DS) tendency of the PT, together with the theses put forward by the DS\' slate of candidates in the PT\'s recent national leadership elections and the platform of DS supporter Raul Pont, who ran [...]
Another world is possible, another Brazil is urgently needed!
Brazil is facing a historic presidential election in 2002 which could see the victory of the candidate of the Workers Party, Lula. As the elections approach, debate is sharpening within the party. We present here the positions of the Socialist Democracy (DS) tendency of the PT, together with the theses put forward by the DS\' slate of candidates in the PT\'s recent national leadership elections and the platform of DS supporter Raul Pont, who ran [...]
Linking experience with struggle
Brazil is facing a historic presidential election in 2002 which could see the victory of the candidate of the Workers Party, Lula. As the elections approach, debate is sharpening within the party. We present here the positions of the Socialist Democracy (DS) tendency of the PT, together with the theses put forward by the DS\' slate of candidates in the PT\'s recent national leadership elections and the platform of DS supporter Raul Pont, who ran [...]
Behind the ‘war on terrorism’
The dreadful slaughter in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania handed the Bush administration a political gift of monumental proportions; an opportunity to launch a political offensive against all its opponents at home and abroad. For prior to September 11, the administration had been under siege diplomatically and politically. Now, quite logically from their own point of view, the Bush-Cheney team has seized on the crisis to turn the tables on [...]
Against His Masters Voice
Thousands of Pakistani religious elements including the young students have taken to the street all over Pakistan on the first day of bombing Afghanistan. At Lahore, over a dozen small and big demonstrations were seen organized by the religious parties. Peshawar and Quetta, the two cities close to Afghanistan, have particularly seen massive demonstrations. Police tried to break the demo with tear gas and beaten charges at both places. The [...]
Dogs of War Gone Mad?
SEPTEMBER 11 WAS the day the United States\' global empire came face to face with the monster that U.S. policy so greatly helped to create. October 7 marked the beginning of the empire\'s strike back.After two weeks of bombing, the immediate question was not whether, but when, a U.S.-organized military occupation of Afghanistan would begin. (This article appears in the November-December 2001 issue of the US magazine Against the Current, and was [...]
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