In difficult times, life histories by grassroots Venezuelan activists illuminate valuable lessons from the Bolivarian Revolution
There have recently been a number of pieces featured in NACLA and the progressive media outlet Jacobin evaluating the Nicolás Maduro government in Venezuela [...]
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin American politics was defined by the re-emergence of the left. In stark contrast to the immediate post-Cold War period, by 2010 around two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in countries governed by progressive administrations. Backed by [...]
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The 36th International Labour Process Conference, 2018
‘CLASS AND THE LABOUR PROCESS’
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018
Call for Streams
The International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) is broadly focused on work and [...]
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Over the past few days, chavista leaders have been publicly boasting that 2016 has been a year of political victories. Convinced that the opposition has run out of short-term options to oust Maduro, high-ranking officials explicitly highlighted three fronts where the government had [...]
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For years, those who had hoped and prayed for his death were repeatedly disappointed by a photo, a newsclip or a commentary in that unmistakable style.
The rumours were always unfounded. Fidel Castro, who had dodged some 600 attempts on his life orchestrated by the CIA, was very much [...]
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As part of his speaking commitments ahead of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) conference hosted at La Trobe University, Alan Knight (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford) gave two talks at the University of Sydney.
The first was on ‘The Great Depression in [...]
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On the weekend, Cubans woke up to the news that the 90-year old leader Fidel Castro had died. It was an event much expected and anticipated, given Fidel’s ailing health and advanced years, but it still took Cubans and the world by surprise. It was a particularly hard blow coming so soon on [...]
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Alan Knight (Oxford University), ‘The great depression in Latin America, 1930-1940’
This is the eighth and final instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, in association with the Institute of Latin American [...]
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