Dear all, please take what follows as an effort to figure out how to understand what is happening in Bolivia. I by no means think that I have it all figured out […]
Sarah Hines. Criticizing Evo wasn’t wrong, but will the racist, misogynist, Bible-thumping right unite the people?
Jaime Pastor. Dangerous liaisons: Can Podemos make a deal to govern Spain?
Jaime Pastor is a political scientist and editor of Viento Sur. Jaime Pastor On Tuesday afternoon, we received unexpected news about a potential deal, a pre-agreement, between Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) […]
Jaime Pastor: Spain’s permanent crisis regime
Jaime Pastor is a political scientist and editor of Viento Sur. In a context of a surging far right alongside the consolidation of political forces determined to defend the pluri-national Spanish state, […]
Paris marches against Islamophobia
Statement by initiators of November 10, 2019 March Against Islamophobia in Paris The initiators of the November 10, 2019 March Against Islamophobia are overjoyed by the mobilization’s huge success. Tens of thousands […]
Martín Mosquera: Will Evo’s resignation lead to Pinochet or resistance?
Martín Mosquera, an activist with Democracia Socialista and an instructor at the University of Buenos Aires, writes on the coup in Bolivia. Nov. 11, 2019 The coup d’état against Bolivian president Evo […]
“Rifles, machine guns, El Alto will not fall!” Dual Power in Bolivia?
As the coup leaders attempt to consolidate power in Bolivia, the 1,000,000-strong, indigenous-majority city of El Alto neighboring the capital La Paz shows signs of resistance. Martín Cúneo, a reporter with El […]
Bolivian police cut indigenous symbol off uniforms
Bolivian police film themselves cutting the constitutionally approved Wiphala indigenous symbol off their uniforms. They are more or less chanting, “We’re the police, we don’t take no shit.” *photo credit, Hernan Andia, […]
MAS statement on coup in Bolivia
Statement by the Political Committee of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (Movement for Socialism) of Bolivia* Resist today to fight again tomorrow Today, November 10, Bolivia’s humble citizens, its workers, the Aymara and […]
Valerio Arcary from Brazil: Lula is free! What next?
Neither wait-and-see nor permanent offensive, we need a united front of the whole left. Valério Arcary is a leading member of Resistência, a revolutionary socialist current inside the Party for Socialism and […]
Announcing No Borders: news, analysis, and culture in translation
Uprisings and mass protests in Chile, Catalonia, Lebanon, Iraq, Hong Kong, Britain, and Haiti (to name a few) prove that all politics is not local. In fact, no local radical politics is […]
