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See also the Solidarity Campaigns, and
Historical Analysis
sections for more on Latin America.
Columbia
Mexico
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Mexico at the crossroads
On December the first 2000, Mexico witnessed the inauguration of Vincente Fox Quejada as its new President. The pomp and circumstance, the ceremonial unveiling of the flag, the military bands, the florid rhetoric, the servile speeches, were all nothing new.Yet this inauguration was something very new for Mexico. For the first time in 71 years, the President was not a member of the PRI - the comically misnamed Institutional Revolutionary Party which had ruled Mexico ever since 1929. By Alan Woods. (January 2001)
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Ten years defending the ideas of genuine Marxism in Mexico
July 2000 marks 10 years of uninterrupted publication of Militante, Marxist Voice of Workers and Youth in Mexico. This editorial from our Mexican comrades explains
some of their activities over the past ten years, and the perspectives for the future. (Summer, 2000)
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Read all about the UNAM Strike in Mexico City by clicking here!
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Hunting Immigrants in Arizona
Latin American workers in the United States often have no rights and no voice. Who is to blame for the surge of illegal immigration into the United States?
What position to socialists take on this issue? From the Mexican Marxist Newspaper Militante. (August, 2000)
Chile
- Lessons of Chile 1973
The arrest of former Chilean dictator Pinochet in London has generated a lot interest
about Chile. We take advantadge of this opportunity to publish a document written in 1979
by Alan Woods analysing the history of Chilean labor movement and specially the period of
the socialist coalition government of Allende. Who was behind Pinochet's coup? What
interests was he defending? What were the policies of the Allende government and why
despite all warnings was it unable to prevent the coup?
- Chile: The Threatening Catastrophe
1971
Written by Alan Woods in September 1971, two years before Pinochet's military
coup. Warned against the threat of a military coup if the Popular Unity government failed
to mobilise the masses and carry out a genuine socialist program.
Ecuador
- 10 days which shook Ecuador
Once again Ecuador started the year with mass demonstrations and strikes. For
ten days the whole of the country was paralysed by peasant road blocks,
demonstrations and occupations of government buildings. A year after the
revolutionary events of January 2000 very little has changed for the masses of
workers and poor peasants who fought for a fundamental change in their living
conditions. By Jorge Martin. (February 14, 2001)
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Ecuador - Two Months After the Revolution
Since the revolution in January, in which the masses took power for a few hours and
were betrayed, Ecuador seems to have returned to normal. The new president Noboa gave
the go-ahead to a package of laws which mean the "dollarisation" of the economy, the
deregulation of the labour market and massive privatisations. But inevitably, these
measures are preparing the way for a new social explosion. By Jorge Martin. (March 14, 2000)
- The uprising in Ecuador marks the beginning of the 21st century
After a week of mass mobilisation, demonstrations, strikes and clashes, on Friday 21st of
January, tens of thousands of Indians, peasants, workers and students in Ecuador took over
one by one the buildings of the Parliament, the Supreme Court and the National Palace and
established an alternative government. (January, 2000)
See also Spanish version.
Bolivia
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Bolivia: state of emergency to crush anti-privatization protests
After a week of mass protests, road blockades and a general strike in the city of Cochabamba the Bolivian government of Hugo Banzer declared a state of emergency on Saturday April 8th. The main focus of the protests was the decision to sell Cochacamba's public water system to a private corporation which then doubled water rates. The trade unions,
peasant unions and students responded to the state of emergency by calling further protests and a general strike. By Jorge Martin. (April 14, 2000)
The Colonial Question and Imperialism
- Marxism and the Struggle Against
Imperialism
It is nearly seven years since George Bush, the then president of the US, made his famous
"New World Order" speech. This was in 1991. In the build-up to the Gulf War the
main imperialist power on earth promised a world without wars, without dictatorships and,
of course, a world firmly under the control of a single all-powerful world policeman--the
US. After the fall of Stalinism, US imperialism really thought that the world would be
firmly under their command and they would be able to dictate the destiny of each and every
country. All conflicts in the world were to be solved through dialogue in a kind of
"Pax Americana." Now all these dreams have been reduced to rubble. In this
document Ted Grant and Alan Woods make an in-depth analysis of the history of the
imperialist domination of the Third World and the way. (June 1998)
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