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Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities of Political Crises

Pauline Lipman, Rico Gutstein Convergence
For the US there is much to learn from the Chilean experience about relationships between left government, movements, and popular protagonism and the importance of political clarity, socialist strategy and organization.

The AMLO Project

Edwin F. Ackerman Sidecar/New Left Review
Whatever the shortcomings of AMLO’s answers, his attempt to break with neoliberalism cannot easily be dismissed.

Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project

Matt Stoller, David Dayen The American Prospect
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.

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Abolition As Method

Kay Gabriel Dissent
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.

The Implications of New US Troop Arrivals in Peru

W. T. Whitney CounterPunch
The U.S. troops arrive amid an upsurge of Peru’s underclass. Peru’s mostly rural, poor, and indigenous majority elected the recently deposed Castillo as president in 2021, they are now calling for Boluarte's, (his unpopular replacement) removal.

What’s Behind the Summit of South American Nations in Brasilia?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan, Guests: Temir Porras Ponceleon, Guillaume Long, Danny Shaw Aljazeera
Brazil’s president wants economic and political bloc to benefit region. Leaders from South America’s 12 nations are meeting in Brazil. Their host president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is calling for more unity and even a new single currency.
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