Hugo Chavez: the new leader of the Latin American leftHow an alliance between Cuba and Venezuela, formed 15 years ago in protest to an American free trade agreement, has grown into a $7 billion socialist trading partnership, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at its helm.
Socialism
Guy Rundle: Rundle: A vision of the future, written by the Left. Part III
Would a transformed post-capitalist economic and social system abolish money, markets and property? Of course not. Will that future be anything like the communism envisaged in the early Marx, or Lenin’s utopian State and Revolution? Emphatically not. But what hopes are there?
What was Left after the global economic collapse?
The GFC should have been the greatest moment ever for the Left. But why hasn’t a viable political and economic alternative emerged? Did the Left miss their big chance?
Ketchup and no Dijon: US turns Europhobic
Europeans are on average healthier, happier and more financially secure than Americans. So, why are the Yanks so terrified of turning Euro? asks Michael Freedman.
1989: the end of history?
Twenty years since the end of the Cold War and the world is now dealing with the fallout of global financial disaster. Is capitalism still the ultimate victor in great ideological battle?
The thin edge of Obama’s “socialist” wedge
The bleating from right-wing commentators over Obama’s “socialism” should take a look at this pie chart.
Make Greed History: Scottish socialists’ new slogan
With GFC and bailouts aplenty, the Scottish Socialist Party senses its moment to shine.
Celebrating Obama’s socialist budget
Embracing the European-style welfare state will improve life in the US across the board, says Matthew Yglesias.
Marxism returns
The onset of the severe global economic downturn has undermined faith in the magic of the market and resurrected the spectre of socialism.
Rundle: we are all Swedes now
The global elite don’t have a clue what to do about this economic crisis, writes Guy Rundle.
The Cold War remains unfinished business
The Cold War remains unfinished business in Australia — and, with the global crisis, we’re seeing a kind of political return of the repressed, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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