Category Archives: Latin America

Protesters, mostly workers, burn a mural depicting U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III after being blocked by police from getting closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to mark International Labor Day Wednesday May 1, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. May 01

Onkwehón:we Rising: May Day 2013 Statement

[This statement was originally authored an published by the crew of Onkwehón:we Rising.] The settler’s work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native’s work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler. – Frantz Fanon The Present World Situation Onkwehón:we, Afrikans, Filipinos, Mexicans, Palestinians and other colonized and […]

red_fist April 15

RAIM: An Open Letter Against First Worldism in the ICM

Bangla, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish translations included.

Suspicion mounts over US role in Chavez’s death from cancer.

In our earlier reporting on the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, we posting an original commemoration and a brief theoretical article which touched on the class forces behind the Bolivarian Revolution. In addition to these two important readings, its is appropriate to give coverage to the mounting suspicions that US covert operations may have […]

Four points on Hugo Chavez, Bourgeois Nationalism, the United Front, Socialism, and the Struggle for Communism.

The news of the recent passing of Hugo Chavez has swept through nominally leftist circles over the past week. Due to his leading stature in contemporary anti-hegemonic struggles, many organizations and websites (including Anti-Imperialism.com) posted commemorations. Now that the news has settled, Chavez’s death affords and demands a discussion on various aspects of the revolutionary […]

hugo_chavez_parade March 07

Hugo Chavez, Anti-Imperialist Stalwart: 1954-2013

On March 5, 2013 Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, passed away after a two year battle with cancer. Chavez will be remembered as a leader who was created by the conditions of Venezuela at the time, one who was created by the peoples struggles for justice. He was an anti-imperialist who stood up to […]

cultural_revolution December 25

Beginning January 14th: Winter Semester of People’s Liberation University.

People’s Liberation University will be launching its winter semester on January 14th, 2013. All genuine groups and individuals are welcome to participate. People’s Liberation University promotes an environment of critical inquiry and radical discussion and aims to train a new generation of anti-imperialist radical intellectuals. Last semester during the Fall of 2012, we held two […]

Amilcar Cabral’s Theory of Class Suicide and Revolutionary Socialism

This following was written by Thomas Meisenhelder. As always, reposting here is for critical discussion and does not imply, agreement, endorsement, or affiliation. Cabral’s ‘The Weapon of Theory’ will be read and discussed as part of the National Liberation and Neo-Liberalism 101 course during the second semester (beginning in January) of People’s Liberation University. This is a most difficult time […]

Brazil Represses the People in Preparation for World Cup and Olympics

The country of Brazil is hosting two events in the next few years that will bring it attention on the world stage.  Brazil is scheduled to host both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.  Like other countries who have hosted the Olympics and other international sporting events previously, […]

Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: a rebel against Soviet political economy

The following article by Helen Yaffe was sourced from the Marxist Internet Archive. Reposting here is for critical discussion and does not imply endorsement or affiliation. In January 1962 Guevara told colleagues in Cuba’s Ministry of Industries (MININD): ‘In no way am I saying that financial autonomy of the enterprise with moral incentives, as it is established in the […]

tumblr_ma5m6y6LCm1qkshhfo1_500 September 12

In Memory of 9-11-1973

On September 11th, 1973, democratically-elected Chilean president, Salvador Allende, was violently overthrown by a CIA orchestrated coup. Bombs struck the presidential palace, tanks rolled through the streets, and the massacre began. The nine-eleven of Chile was underway. Salvador Allende, convinced he would be assassinated, instead took his own life as his home was being bombarded. […]

Image credit: Uhurunews.com June 22

ALBA recommends expulsion of USAID

In a positive step for international anti-imperialism, the Political Council of Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) called for the unconditional expulsion of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from its member countries.

The fundamental elements of left wing politics in the Chinese Communist Party prior to the defeat of socialism in China

When news broke following October 1st, 1949 that the Chinese Communist Party defeated the ‘Nationalist’ troops and had established the People’s Republic of China, reactions of elation, horror or skepticism ensued. Few however could predict the political struggles which would erupt over the next 20 years, eventually spilling into public life in what was known […]

Honduran Police Burn Community To The Ground, Families Left Homeless

Previously, Anti-Imperialism.com reported on the re-founding of the Partido Communista de Honduras. As was mentioned, the re-founding of the group was part of increasing conflict between the Honduran people and the reactionary, lackey, post-coup regime led by Porfirio Lobo Sosa, and increasing resistance by the latter to the former. This short video (above), by TheRealNews.com, […]

Communist Party Refounded in Honduras

Nearly two years after a US-backed coup d’état toppled the social democratic presidency of Manuel Zaleya, and amid increasing political and economic repression, the Partido Comunista de Honduras was refounded earlier this year after twenty-one years of dormancy. This is a news report carried in the Venezuelan Communist Party journal, Tribuna Popular, and translated by […]

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