Ghana initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a bailout amid a major economic crisis. The Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions reject this, arguing it will do nothing to alleviate the economy's structural problems.
Puerto Rico’s Left made significant gains in the recent general elections. This vote for decolonization and social change must be appreciated.
They should let a lot of their companies go bankrupt so that Americans can buy them. They should have the same kind of free market that has wrecked the US economy.
The ALBA countries outperformed the wealthiest countries in the region during the world’s most serious economic crisis in nearly a century.
Campaigns for social control of capital look different from social democratic movements that began in the 1870s and endured through the mid-1960s. Thus many underestimate the significance of the Occupy Movement, the mobilization of domestic workers, immigrants, restaurant and fast food workers, home healthcare workers, self-employed women workers, tomato pickers or the landless. Nonetheless, we should recognize that these campaigns all challenge capital.
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