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Chile is currently experiencing a period of open political contestation. This is not merely an electoral shift to the right, but a deeper struggle over the meaning of the country.
50 years after the fall of Saigon, Amandla Magazine interviews Tariq Ali, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement, about how this grassroots activism influenced the war’s conduct and outcome in Vietnam.
The just transition is a class issue, so it means we need to talk about capitalism.
FIFTY YEARS AGO, CHILE’S ROAD TO socialism suffered a devastating defeat. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, spurred by elites, condoned by middle-class sectors and backed by Washington, toppled Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular (Popular Unity, UP). This was...
In 2021 and 2022, the exceptionally democratic Constitutional Convention drafted a new Constitution for Chile. In the plebiscite of September 4, 2022, 62% of the Chilean population rejected it. On December 15th of that same year, the parties with parliamentary...
IT CAN NO LONGER BE DOUBTED THAT we are living in an age of unceasing crisis. And South Africa can no longer be considered as an exception in the socio-economic problems it faces. At home and abroad, we face unyielding economic instability, explosive political...
2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab spring, Spain’s indignados and Occupy Wall Street and the thousands of other social mobilisations which coalesced around the dissatisfaction with the multiple crises of capitalism. A social model that incessantly and...
Across oceans and covering continents people around the world are struggling. There are protest marches, demonstrations, occupations. It’s now global, a globalization of struggle for democracy, for a decent life. It is One Earth One Humanity One Loved, as a placard in...