Spotlight on the USA

Trumpism and its Limits

“It is time to study Caligula. That most notorious of Roman emperors killed what was left of the republic and centralised authority in himself. Donald Trump does not need to make his horse a senator; […]

Bolivia

BOLIVIA | Failed Coup Attempt

Bolivia has once again been thrust into a political crisis with an attempted coup on Wednesday 26th of June. Reflecting the powerful revolutionary traditions the main trade union confederation COB rapidly declared an indefinite general […]

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American showdown

HANNAH SELL reviews one of the numerous recent books looking at the events in Washington DC on 6 January 2021 and their aftermath, examining the crisis in both the Republican and Democrat parties and the […]

Chile

Notes from Chile

All of Chile’s political parties have signed up to the misnamed, “The Pact for social peace and a new constitution,” with the exception of the Communist Party, which has vacillated on the issue. The Chilean […]

Ecuador

Revolt in Ecuador

In the face of massive protests in Ecuador, the government of Lenin Moreno has been driven to declare a “state of exception” throughout the country – a repressive step just short of a state of […]

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Venezuela

VENEZUELA | After the Death of Hugo Chávez

Radical, populist policies and anti-imperialism helped transform the political situation This article was first published in Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). After a long battle with cancer, Venezuelan president […]

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USA

USA: Default averted

After months of vicious manoeuvring between Republican and Democratic factions, the US Congress and president Obama agreed on a budget deal only hours before the deadline to raise the Federal government’s borrowing limit.

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10th CWI World Congress

WC10 | Latin America

“With the second centenary of national political independence being “celebrated” in various Latin American countries, the impasse for the political alternatives that have developed in the last period, like “Chavismo” and “Castroismo”, the region is […]