CLASS

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Welcome to the CLASS book club.
The CLASS book club aims to offer a space for discussion on authors and ideas about different issues concerning contemporary Latin America. The topics will range from history, political analysis and theory, cultural studies, workers and people´s struggles, poetry and fiction literature. In our monthly meetings we profile a book, [...]

On the night of October 11, six thousand soldiers and militarized police took over the offices of Luz y Fuerza del Centro, the State owned corporation that provides power to Mexico City and some states in Central Mexico; the entity was liquidated by an executive order issued by Mexico′s president Felipe Calderón. Since then, the [...]

On September 2, 2009, Liliany Obando was visited by David Nelson of the Australian Federal Police (AFP),together with Oscar Leonel Ochoa and Diana Marlene Plaza, both employees of Colombian National Intelligence Agency (DAS). Obando was arrested and jailed on August 8, 2008, charged with two counts of rebellion and managing funds for a terrorist organization [...]

LA PAZ – The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, on Saturday declared Bolivian President Evo Morales as “World Hero of Mother Earth” in a ceremony at the presidential palace in this capital.

With a medal and a parchment scroll, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization named Morales “the [...]

Heryck Rangel - President of Youth Institute for Greater Caracas and member of United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Australian Tour organised by Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Clubs and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Australia)

Heryck Rangel - President of Youth Institute for Greater Caracas and member of United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Interviewed by Yousef - 3CR program Palestine Remembered (Aug 27,09) - Melbourne Australia
Australian Tour organised by Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Clubs and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Australia)

Heryck Rangel - President of Youth Institute for Greater Caracas and member of United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Heryck Rangel spoke at the Latin America Solidarity Conference Aug 28-29, 2009 - Melbourne Australia
Plenary session: Obama´s foreign policy for Latin America: militarisation, blockade& trade agreements
Australian Tour organised by Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Clubs and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Australia)

By James Petras
The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an [...]