We republish below a short account of the general strike in Argentina on January 24, 2024 with Claudio Katz (an economist and professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a member of Economistas de Izquierda). Together they give a good impression of the catalyst for and state of popular organizing underway in Argentina as the people there respond to newly-installed President Javier Milei’s far-right agenda.Leer texto completo [PDF]

Claudio Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a member of Economists of the Left. He is also the author of various articles and books on contemporary capitalism and imperialism, including Bajo el Imperio del Capital (Under the Empire of Capital), Dependency Theory After Fifty Years and his latest, La Crisis del Sistema Imperial (The Imperial System in Crisis). In this broad-ranging interview, Katz talks about the need to avoid looking at imperialism in purely economic terms, the rise of what he terms an “imperial system” and the complexities of anti-imperialism in the 21st century, with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal.Leer texto completo [PDF]

The unexpected victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei in Argentina’s primaries marks a crisis for both Peronism and its traditional conservative antagonists. No one knows exactly what will happen next.Leer texto completo [PDF]

The new cold war promoted by the US against Russia and China is disrupting the international scenario NATO regains prominence, Europe and Japan rearm, and militarization permeates all international relations. The consequences of this escalation are already verified in the two conflicts that convulse the planet. The war in Ukraine and the tensions in the China Sea anticipate the dramatic effects of the ongoing confrontations.Leer texto completo [PDF]Leer texto completo [PDF]

The region needs to resist U.S. domination and negotiate in bloc with China, to recover
sovereignty and reverse its economic regression. There are favourable conditions for
introducing Both twists
The confrontation with Free Trade Agreements includes new Trails. Achievements in its
regulations could pave a Bandung in the Silk Road, but it is necessary to strengthen the
construction of Latin American popular unity.
An international strategy of pluripolarity is developed with programs radicalrevolutionaries
based on popular protagonism. Diverges with the mere multipolarity for
the socialist horizon, which could to be propped up with the protagonism of Latin
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The United States is losing economic primacy in Latin America in the face of the overwhelming presence of China, unable to find recipes to counterbalance this protagonism that threatens its traditional domination.
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Leer texto completo [PDF]Latin America continues to be an area convulsed by popular rebellions and transformative political processes. In different corners of the region, the same tendency to restart the uprisings that marked the beginning of the new millennium is verified. These uprisings have subsided over the past decade but have regained intensity in recent years

The revolutionary danger and inter-imperial wars that determined classical fascism are not present today. The ultra-right converges with traditional conservative dynamics, but capitalism tends to recreate modalities of great violence and totalitarianism.
In Latin America, the shadow of fascism did not emerge with nationalist leaders, but with counterrevolutionary actions to crush the left. It persists as a card of the powerful against popular uprisings.
Populism is not an enlightening concept of the right-wing wave. It places the exponents and opponents of this process in the same pigeonhole, dissolves its opposition to the left, and obscures the interests at stake. The ongoing battle is fought in the streets and at the ballot box, avoiding the hesitations that embolden a dangerous enemy.
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Recently, the right-wingers in the region have faced three important setbacks. The failed coup in Brazil was preceded by a failed coup in Bolivia and failed conspiracies in Venezuela.
These defeats do not annul the continued onslaught of the reactionary formations. They have managed to establish themselves in Argentina, rethink their action in Colombia, resume the Pinochet legacy in Chile, emerge in Mexico and participate in the ferocious repression unleashed in Peru. The analysis of each case illustrates the profile of this trend in Latin America.
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China’s status as capitalist or socialist will be determined by political struggles and popular battles. This dilemma is being processed within an intermediate formation with ruling classes that do not control state power. The country’s economic shifts have expressed conflicting interests rather than socialist continuities. Initial coexistence with the market differed from the later process of restoration.
Those who see a completed capitalist regression omit the fact that the fusion between the bourgeoisie and state functionaries has not been consummated. China’s socialist legacy is a major stumbling block to this integration, in a regime that is very different to any variety of state capitalism. There are various competing currents, including one for socialist renovation promoted by the New Left.
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