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Latin America — the enduring flame of hope
Ahead of the Latin America Conference 2023 in January, RICHARD BURGON MP looks at the 'second pink tide,' a new wave of social progress across the continent — and why solidarity remains as important as ever
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: (Left) a placard with a slogan ‘Until dignity becomes customary’ which encapsulates the essence of the protests; (right) protest in Baquedano Square in Santiago, Chile on October 22 2019
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If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
IT seems not a month goes by without a new crisis hitting ordinary people all over the world. From the cost-of-living emergency to the inequality crisis and climate chaos, it is clear that our neoliberal model is failing the vast majority of people.
Each crisis should not be viewed in isolation but as a sign of how neoliberalism itself is the crisis. That means we need to replace the whole system with an alternative that better serves people. On this, Latin America offers important lessons for progressives.
Birthplace and graveyard of neoliberalism
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FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO