Socialism

Review – Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

Jennifer Lambe • Jul 20 2015 • Features

An astute and thoughtful take on Cuban responses to the “special period”, this title offers tantalizing material for comparison as Cuba confronts yet another transition.

Interview – Minqi Li

E-International Relations • Apr 7 2015 • Features

Professor Li discusses crises of the global economy, the significance of ecological limits to growth, and the imperative for an alternative socialist world system.

Review – Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America

Thomas Muhr • Mar 18 2015 • Features

This outstanding volume is a crucial contribution to the ongoing paradigmatic struggle over how to make sense of the revolutionary transformations of Latin America.

Interview – Leo Panitch

E-International Relations • Aug 7 2014 • Features

Professor Panitch explains how he understands imperialism, discusses the value of democratic peace theory, and the inherent problems with US-led global capitalism.

The Left’s Europe Problem

Darian Meacham • Apr 15 2014 • Articles

What’s a Social Democrat to do? One solution is to push for enhanced powers for the EU Parliament. Another is to consider that EU institutions may have to be re-imagined.

Democracy in Cuba

George Lambie • Aug 14 2013 • Articles

As the global financial crisis deepens, Cuba’s socialist experiment and its attempts to give democracy a participative social orientation may gain a global relevance in this age of uncertainty.

Review – Brzezinski’s Technetronic Era

Stephen McGlinchey • Jul 22 2011 • Features

The phrase ‘Technetronic Era’ many not have cemented its place in posterity, but we appear to be living in elements of it nonetheless.

Why Hugo Chavez’s Illness Matters

Joel D. Hirst • Jul 1 2011 • Articles

On June 10th President Hugo Chavez went under the knife in Havana to remove what Venezuelan officials called a pelvic abscess. Since that date, Chavez has been out of the public eye. For a loquacious president fond of giving seven hour speeches to a bleary-eyed audience, this is an extraordinary amount of time to maintain silence, leading to rampant speculative fervour within Venezuela, and internationally.

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