Introduction To Hope: The Left in Local Politics

In the 1980s, various leftists including Andres IVelsquez of the Causa R and MAS' Carlos Tablante gained prominence at the

MAS AND THE CAUSA R IN REGIONAL POWER Venezuela's two major leftist parties have made important advances at the regional

RECAPTURING CUBA'S DISENCHANTED YOUTH Disenchantment has spread among Cuban youths after the ideology which they have grown up with under

Reinventing Solidarity In an otherwise fine essay about North-South solidarity and human rights activism ["A Typology of Activism," March/April 1995],

RIOS MONTT POISED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT GUATEMALA CITY, MAY 19, 1995 Recent poll indicates that 48% of decided voters

Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS by Marvin Leiner, Westview Press, 1994, 184 pp., $47.50 (cloth). At the

THE CRUCIBLE OF LOCAL POLITICS Local and state politics have become viable arenas in which the left can compete for

THE FRENTE AMPLIO IN MONTEVIDEO Uraguay's socialist left is not only vigorously defending the country's welfare-state legacy but is in

The modern history of Uruguay began in 1904 with the inauguration of Jose Batlle y Ord6fiez as president. A towering

THE PT EXPERIENCE IN PORTO ALEGRE Participatory democracy has flourished under the control of the leftist Workers Party in Porto

THE WORKER'S PARTY IN RURAL BRAZIL In Brazil's Northeast–a region notorious for paternalistic, corrupt politics–the Workers Party in local power

TOWARD A STRATEGY OF RESISTANCE Utopia has not died. The suffering and misery that neoliberalism wreaks among millions of poor