On the anniversary of the birth of Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, we present to our fellow Venezuelans and to the rebellious peoples and comrades from different parts of the globe the Unitary Chavista Socialist League (LUCHAS), a tool that we hope will contribute to the organization and rebellious activity of critical thinking within the Bolivarian Revolution. With this name and initials we announce our new identity.
Pakistan’s history of rape impunity
4 August 2016, byViolence against women won’t end until the country’s elites are held accountable. The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl by a group of men in Lahore, Pakistan, made national headlines in the first week of January — not least because one of the accused men is a member of the youth wing of the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz, the political party ruling the country.
Feminisms of the Left
3 August 2016, byI like our panel’s title: “Feminisms of the Left.” There is a long and confusing collection of names for those who are both leftists and feminists: Marxist feminist, socialist feminist, materialist feminist, black feminist, feminist socialist, anarcho-feminist, and so on. And straddling the line between socialist and liberal feminists would be social-welfare feminists. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the heyday of the women’s liberation movement, when “feminism” was too tame a word, the mainstream feminists were social-welfare feminists.
The feminist movement
1 August 2016, by , ,This article briefly presents the path taken by the feminist movement over the past 17 years, focusing on two currents present during this period - liberal feminism and popular feminism - and examining their inputs and limits in the perspective of the construction of an emancipatory process for women.
Lessons for the left from Correa’s presidency
1 August 2016, by ,The earthquake which struck Ecuador’s Pacific coast on April 16, 2016 left some heavy traces, and not only in terms of human losses (nearly 700 dead, 6,000 wounded and 30,000 affected) or material damage (between 3 and 4 billion dollars needed for reconstruction), but also in social and political terms. And through the innumerable effects that this earthquake has had on the management of the country, we can understand the tensions and contradictions in the current policies of President Rafael Correa’s government