socialism

A week before the one-year anniversary of Chávez's death, panelists Mark Weisbrot, Dan Kovalik, Julio Escalona, and James Early discuss the late President Chávez's global political and social legacy.

There is a troubling reality that those of us who sympathize with the underlying objectives and achievements of the Cuban

For the comuneros, socialism was not an abstract utopia, but a set of ideas that resonated with the way they

LATIN AMERICA WAS TRADITIONALLY AN area of marginal importance to the Soviet-bloc economy. The USSR and Eastern Europe developed sig-

Over the course of the 1990s Cuba has dramatically changed its trade, technology and investment partners, modified its institutions of

The most immediately recognizable sign of a revolution in Nicaragua is that people aren't afraid of the soldiers. Such trust

The program of the Movimento del Pueblo Unido (MPU) is the plan for a post-Somoza government with the broadest support

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

The world has changed considerably since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Unlike 1959, the world is now characterized by

There can be little doubt that Fidel Castro's regime has demonstrated a notable and, for many, surprising capacity for survival

Twentieth century socialism is moribund. In the Americas, socialist-oriented movements were dealt severe blows by the elec- toral defeat of

While other parts of Oaxaca, Mexico's predominantly Indian, ag- ricultural state, attract anthropolo- gists and others interested in ruins, Juchitan