19/05/2013
Three speeds of the crisis and its divergent paths
According to an IMF report, the crisis is becoming regionalized and moving from two to three speeds: 1) recession in Europe, 2) volatile rallying in emerging economies and 3) weak recovery in the United States. By Oscar Ugarteche Ariel Noyola Rodríguez (15/05/2013)
Brazil, the biggest extractivist in South America
Extractivism is the appropriation of huge volumes of natural resources or their intensive exploitation, most of them exported as raw materials to global markets. It seems to have gone unnoticed that by this definition the major extractivist in South America is Brazil. By Eduardo Gudynas. (12/05/2013)
The autumn of the Empire and of Capitalism
When the Empire is incapable of maintaining its hegemony by providing solutions to the systemic crises it has recourse to "exploitative hegemony" with all the violence and destruction that accompanies this. By Alberto Rabilotta (09/05/2013)
Guatemala: the state of siege, this time to protect Canadian investment
President Otto Perez Molina, a retired soldier, decreed, this past May 1, the second state of siege of his term in office. This time, it was to repress indigenous people, the Xinca, in Jalapa and Mataquescuintal and in Casillas and San Rafael Las Flores, and to protect the “investments” of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources. By Ollantay Itzamná. (08/05/2013)
WTO: Reuters attempts to disqualify Azevedo
Big Press is concentrated to serve global moguls on a global scale. The latest case is a Reuters dispatch from Brasilia, which tries to discredit Roberto de Azevedo, the Brazilian candidate that with the largest support reached the final round for the post of Director General of the WTO. By Umberto Mazzei. (03/05/2013)
Appraisal and outlook of the World Social Forum from Latin America
The first great spontaneous, popular rebellion at a national level against neo-liberal globalization was the Caracas Uprising of 1989. In 1992, a group of Venezuelan military rebels, led by Hugo Chavez, sought to give it a political expression. By Gustavo Codas.
(01/05/2013)
Guerrilla strategy of the right in Venezuela
The government of President Nicolas Maduro has to launch a political counter-offensive, centred on the area of public policies, ignoring the provocations and insults on the part of right-wing spokesmen and thus neutralizing the aggressive tactics. By Atilio Boron (30/04/2013)
WTO: The Road of de Azevedo
The WTO is in the process of electing a new director general, in a process that is far from transparent. The final candidates are the Brazilian Roberto de Azevedo and the Mexcian Herminio Blanco, who represent distinct interests. By Umberto Mazzei. (29/04/2013)
The World Social Forum and its governance: a multi-headed monster
Twelve years after Porto Alegre, the relevance of the initiative of the first WSF organizers is fully confirmed. To-day, the time has come to open the space to new generations and to make the WSF a strategic space for reflection and action. By Francine Mestrum. (28/04/2013)
Who defines what the World Social Forum is?
The principal question is: How to create structures of a process which allows social movements as well as individuals to get actively involved in creating a WSF? By Christian Shröder (24/04/2013)
The complex crisis
The different aspects of the complex crisis the planet is experiencing seem to indicate that this is a multiple crisis. But what new theoretical proposal will help us move towards lasting solutions? This is the central theme of edition 483 (March) of ALAI's Spanish language magazine America Latina en Movimiento. (18/03/2013)
For the new left: What other economy?
In the current context, is it possible for the new Left to devise a different economy in Latin America? The February issue (No. 482) of ALAI's magazine América Latina en Movimiento, coedited with the Conurbano Institute of the UNGS (Argentina), addresses this question, with emphasis on the principles, alternatives and proposals being developed to meet the new economic rationale of the common good. (13/02/2013)
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