Latin America

Nicaragua: Dynamics of an Interrupted Revolution

August 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Nicaragua, Socialism

Image from Sandinismo in Nicaragua: Non-State centered alternatives? on Systemic Alternatives by Jeff Mackler, originally published on Socialist Action The unfolding events in Nicaragua over the past three months pose two critical questions for socialists and antiwar activists. Where do we stand on the critical issue of U.S. imperialist intervention and where do we stand with regard to the dynamics[…]

From the End of History to the End of Truth

March 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Soft Power Imperialism

by Tortilla Con Sal, originally published on the TeleSUR website, March 11, 2018 Non governmental organizations play a role in the Western elites’ offensive against resistance to them. Making nonsense of Fukuyama’s premature triumphalist screed, it is commonplace now to note that the United States corporate elites and their European and Pacific country counterparts are increasingly losing power and influence around[…]

Venezuela: Revenge of the Mad-Dog Empire

February 25, 2018 UNAC Editor Latin America, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, originally published on Black Agenda Report, Feb 21, 2018 U.S. global dominance Only in the world of comic-book fantasies is the United States a friend to the oppressed in Africa or anywhere else on the planet. In the real world, the U.S. is a predator, colonial/capitalist nation. But like the imagined nation of Wakanda, in the latest[…]

Ten Big Lies About Venezuela and Its Revolution

January 2, 2018 UNAC Editor Latin America, Venezuela, Venezuela

Cooperative in Caracas, Photo: Bill Hackwell By Carlos E. Lippo on December 15, 2017, from Resumen: LatinoAmericano and the Third World For many years I have had the absolute conviction that the only thing that the capitalist system has managed to surpass socialism in, over these last 100 years since the first consolidated socialist revolution in history took place, is[…]