Class Struggle

Issue #227 July 1 2019 Volume 46-4

  This issue is devoted to Brazil and examines how the last few years have brought significant transformations to the government and society, which defy earlier expectations, both positive and negative.  Articles focus on political and economic subjects ranging from public demonstrations and labor unionization, the results of the PT administrations’ policies of land reform and healthcare management, to the difficulties brought on by the international recession, as well as questions of historical formation, cultural construction, self-identity, self-definition and criticism, and the conservative backlashes which have led to the rise of the rightist regime now in power.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #225 May 1 2019 Volume 46-3

  This issue of LAP represents a step toward a better understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a Latin American context. The articles cover a range of historical and current topics and show that Arab and Jewish histories are an integral part of Latin American history, that Latin America has been an important actor in the conflict over Palestine, and that the issue is being played out today in ever-changing circumstances.  Historical topics address how specific Latin American countries dealt with the creation of Israel and the Six-Day War while other articles consider more recent topics including the role and treatment of the Palestinian diaspora and Israeli marketing of urban security expertise.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #225 Mar 1 2019 Volume 46-2

  This issue continues the examination of the economic, social, and political impacts of expanded extractivism in Latin America and the perpetuation of the region’s role as a raw materials supplier for foreign markets that was started in the September 2018 issue (LAP 45 [5]).  With a broad geographic scope and consideration of a wide range of extractive industries from mining and hydrocarbons to soy, it combines critical theoretical insights with rich empirical research into the changing national and transnational structural relationships among governments, resource extracting and financial corporations, and the affected populations. Several articles critically assess the limitations of the extractivist policies of progressive governments. Others analyze the role of China and the actual experience of South-South cooperation.  Environmental justice issues and grass roots resistance are also considered  with attention to the roles of women, indigenous and Afro-descendent communities.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #224 Jan 1 2019 Volume 46-1

  This issue sheds light on positive and negatives sides of progressive or “Pink Tide” governments which it places in political and economic contexts, specifically destabilizing efforts by a “disloyal opposition” and disinvestment by the private sector.     TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #222 Sept 1 2018 Volume 45-5

Ever since the elusive search for El Dorado began in the 16th century, the history of Latin America has been a tale of resource extraction. This issue focuses on the interconnections and impacts of global resource-based economies on topics as wide-ranging as local people and their environments, national policies and international financial capital. Rather than finding neat and tidy conclusions, it suggests that nuanced social, political economic analyses better enable us to understand and analyze how contemporary extractivism is reshaping Latin America.   TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #220 May 1 2018 Volume 45-3

More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of  the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #219 Mar. 1 2018 Volume 45-2

More than a half century after the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s landmark essay “7 Erroneous Thesis about Latin America”, its critique of dominant development thinking remains sharp, as was shown at a colloquium hosted by El Colegio de México 50 years to the day after the publication of  the original text. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Issue #216 Sept. 1 2017 Volume 44-5

In the 1990s Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora, and Richard Wilson directly challenged the democratic-transitions literature by introducing the model of “low-intensity democracy” a largely procedural democracy that allows political opposition, greater individual freedoms, a reduced institutional role for the armed forces, and a more permeable environment for the investments of transnational capital. TABLE OF CONTENTS | PURCHASE THIS ISSUE

Go to Top