16 articles

• Latin America: The Conservative Offensive and the Return of Class War

  16 December 2019, by Antoine Pelletier, Franck Gaudichaud, Viento Sur

  Several countries in Latin America are currently experiencing very powerful class conflicts and extremely violent repression on the part of reactionary forces and the state. The following report is an overview by Franck Gaudichaud on the situation in various countries and the dynamics of their struggles.

• The collapse has begun. It is political

  25 November 2019, by Alain Bertho

  As revolts erupt all over the world, governing today is more and more like waging an open or covert war against the uprisings of peoples and living beings, to maintain at all costs an increasingly discredited order. Anthropologist Alain Bertho returns here for Terrestres on this "crisis of governmentality" and on the long sequence of related revolts that caused it.

• Faced with the crisis in Venezuela: what to do?

  4 February 2019, by Plateforme altermondialiste

  Venezuela is in a serious social, economic and political crisis. The death of Hugo Chávez, who had "rebuilt" the country in 1999, coincided with a catastrophic decline in oil prices, which accounted for 90% of the country’s exports and income. Meanwhile, the governance of his successor Nicolás Maduro has significantly aggravated the impacts of this crisis. With the threat of intervention by the United States, which would like to destroy this country in the name of "human rights" and "democracy", the situation is even more serious. Such an intervention would not only destroy the government, but would also crush an entire people and their progressive forces.

• The lesson of Brazil: The scenarios, dark spots of the left, tomorrow’s challenges

  12 November 2018, by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, Pierre Beaudet

  The catastrophe — expected and foreseeable — has happened. This immense country, with its 200 million inhabitants, is now in darkness. At best, it will take a decade or two to emerge.

• South America: The end of a cycle?

  2 July 2018, by Autres Brésils, Glauber Sezerino, Ritimo

  Out of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes that have marked them deeply between the 1960s and the 1980s, a large number of South American countries have seen the emergence of democratization processes based on policies often described as right-wing.

  This economic-political model ran out of steam at the end of the 1990s. The sub-continent sees the arrival in power of new political elites, mostly from social movements born in the previous period.

  However, from 2010, in a context of retraction of the global economy, these projects seem threatened by their internal limits. In this context, this "left cycle" seems to be coming to an end - or at least in the face of a blockade - with the advancement of the right wings within these left-wing governments.

  In this dossier, we will try to analyze the specific dynamics of this ongoing process in the subcontinent.