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As members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), we stand with the popular, democratic, and socialist movements in Latin America as they fight against rightwing movements, parties, and governments. We also stand against any attempts by the U.S. or other governments to intervene in Latin America to overthrow left-leaning governments or ...
Instead of changing course, DSA should continue prioritizing mass parties of the Latin American Left. by Luca Dhagat and Niko Johnson-Fuller - Fall 2023. Beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Latin America saw a surge in left wing parties and candidates winning elections. Often referred to as the “Pink Tide,” this trend has ...
Much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America is much poorer. As long as wealth remains unequally distributed among nations, people will migrate to wealthier countries for better jobs and wages. In the 1980s, European social democrats argued that the world’s wealth was distributed in a way that is unequal, unfair, and ultimately unsustainable.
Finally, the connection between U.S. imperial domination of Latin America and job flight had not yet been as strongly planted in the mind of many working people as it has today. Future anti-Imperialist movements will have to involve immigrants from the countries in the U.S. government’s sights, something that the Central America movement of ...
The U.S. has long been willing to exploit less-developed countries in Latin America for the sake of economic gain and geopolitical domination, regardless of the cost. Though some states (i.e. Argentina or Chile) have relatively more developed economies, much of Latin America remains impoverished, and measures of social inequality in the region ...
In 1936, socialists and communists around the world wanted the direct intervention of their respective imperialist countries in Spain to support the Spanish Republic. Even though the United States was being very naughty in Latin America, people here said, “the US government should support the Spanish Republic.”
Three DSA International Committee members discuss their views on the body’s evolution and socialist internationalism today. by Paul Garver, Austin Gonzalez, and Carrington Morris - Summer 2021. International questions were the main internal fault line of the twentieth century Left. The 1917 Bolshevik revolution split the world labor movement ...
Nueva Canción and the Latin American Left. Nueva Canción was a Latin American folk music-revival movement that emerged in the mid-1960s and continued through the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its pan-Latin American scope, the style of Nueva Canción artists was incredibly diverse. However, the movement prioritized the inclusion of indigenous ...
Guatemala is the only nation in Latin America where the percentage of the population living in poverty has actually increased since 2000. Honduras, like its Northern Triangle neighbors, has traditionally served as an exporter of agricultural goods–coffee, sugar, and bananas–receiving in return industrial imports.
Latin America has long been a focus of international solidarity work among U.S. socialists. In his article, veteran activist David Grosser looks back at the Central American solidarity movement of the 1980s, when Americans mobilized to oppose the government’s support for dictatorships and death squads in the region.