29 years ago this month, Salvador Allende’s government in Chile was deposed by a military coup. Here, FRANCES DOCX reviews a novel discussing the legacy of this period in Latin American history. The Shadow of What We Were was difficult to digest. I was left with few absolute opinions and myriad questions. The novel has […]
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Assange: no superhero
Aug 23rd, 2012 by Lucy Reese.Julian Assange. I won’t say that I don’t think the work he did with WikiLeaks was totally awesome and incredibly important, yet as I’ve argued before, I have many reservations towards Assange the person – or rather the persona he projects to the world. Possibly this is because I was slightly underwhelmed when I saw […]
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Assange and the left’s messiah complex
Aug 20th, 2012 by Darrell Goodliffe.The case of Julian Assange has become something of a pantomime; frankly, the notion of the SAS storming Ecuador’s Embassy is almost as comical as it is tragic. If Ecuador is prepared to taint itself by keeping Assange fattened and atop his pulpit at its own taxpayers expense then more fool it. Certainly, I wouldn’t […]
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Trinidad and Tobago shows us how to celebrate
Aug 8th, 2012 by Conrad Landin.It’s not every cultural event for which the main purpose seems to be jubilance and enjoyment. But this was the spirit of the night at Kilburn’s Tricycle theatre on last Thursday night, in just one episode of a month-long celebration of two islands celebrating 50 years of independence: Trinidad and Tobago.
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Repsol-YPF: the left and nationalisation today
Apr 18th, 2012 by David Osler.It has been a long time since people used to get up at Labour Party meetings and casually demand the nationalisation of the top 200 monopolies, even in speeches supposedly addressing the need for better traffic light provision in Leytonstone.
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Labour and the Falklands: what Foot got wrong
Apr 2nd, 2012 by David Osler.Margaret Thatcher had no particular animus against the average Latin American military dictatorship. So long as the lideres maximales confined themselves to the workaday torture and execution of leftists and strict implementation of Chicago School economics, they could always count on her enthusiastic support.
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Return to the Falklands
Feb 14th, 2012 by Mike Phipps.Riots, union bashing, privatisation, attacks on our public services – just like Tory Governments of old. Now the Coalition seems determined to emulate Thatcher in foreign policy as well. As the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War approaches, the UK Government is ratcheting up the tension with Argentina. It has sent a nuclear submarine — […]
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Another way is possible: fair trade, cooperation and solidarity
Nov 25th, 2011 by Helen Yuill.Current events and discussion on the crisis in the Eurozone and more globally, have raised interesting questions of democratic deficit, sovereignty over economic policy and whether countries can work co-operatuively together to improve economic and social development. Yet in Latin America, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA) agreement between progressive governments […]
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Argentina/Greece: De-fault lines?
Sep 16th, 2011 by Ann Pettifor.So, five of the world’s biggest central banks have decided on co-ordinated action to bail out – once again – the European private banking sector. In other words, central bankers are hoping to shore up private bankers, help them defer their losses, and prevent them being disciplined by market forces for their reckless lending to EU […]
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Argentina defaulted: it’s still there
Jun 21st, 2011 by David Osler.Ten years ago Argentina defaulted on $95bn-worth of public debt, in a move that still holds the record for the largest sovereign default of all time. By last year, it was back on the international capital markets. True, the major rating agencies assess the creditworthiness of almost all Argentine debt – sovereign, sub-sovereign and most […]
