CLASS

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, [...]

By James D. Cockcroft*
(Texto disponible en español en Rebelión)
In his January 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; [...]

SINCE its take-off as a nation, the United States of America has always countered the ideology of Latin American unity and integration with its pretensions for continental domination, an ambition expressed on December 2, 1823 in the famous Monroe Doctrine and synthesized in the phrase: “America for the Americans.” It was not until the final [...]

… Continued
End of the ministry of colonies of the USA
On September 2, 1960, after the OAS conspiracy against Cuba was established in San José, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro convened the Cuban people in a Great General Assembly in the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, and read out the historical proclamation known as the [...]

In El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, of the former rebel FMLN party, has won the country’s presidential    election, ending two decades of conservative rule. Funes won 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling right-win  ARENA party. Avila conceded defeat late Sunday.
The FMLN was a coalition of rebel guerrillas [...]

On January 1, Cuba’s working people celebrated 50 years of freedom from imperialist rule. The Cuban Revolution, a socialist revolution that has made big advances in achieving environmental sustainability, has also been largely untouched by the economic crisis sweeping the capitalist world owing to its planned, nationalised economy and its strong ties to its new [...]

Talk by Jo Williams who led the Education exchange tour to Venezuela in February 2009. It was presented to the Feb 21, 2009 Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Forum in Melbourne.

By Roberto Jorquera & Jorge Jorquera
On October 9, millions throughout the world commemorated the 41th anniversary of the assassination of Ernesto ”Che” Guevara, better known as Che. Che was central to the victorious Cuban revolution of January 1, 1959. Since then the role and contribution that he made to socialism in Cuba and to socialist [...]