Report from Venezuela: Aluminum Workers Choose Their Managers and Increase...
Alcasa, a state-owned aluminum processing plant in the southeastern state of Bolívar, has long been an important employer in a region where the lion's share of Venezuela's mining and processing plants...
View ArticleHugo Chávez on the Failed Coup
This article is excerpted from Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker to be published by Monthly Review Press in September. The book covers a wide range of...
View ArticleConclusion
My reflections on the kind of political instrument needed to build twenty-first century socialism are intended to contribute to a larger body of thought about the horizon toward which a growing number...
View ArticleII. Twenty-First Century Socialism
“Why talk of socialism?” we may ask. After all, “socialism” has had such negative connotations since its collapse in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries. For many years after Soviet...
View ArticleI. Latin America
Latin America was the first region in the world where neoliberal policies were introduced. Chile, my country, was used as a testing ground before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government...
View ArticleLatin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes
Twenty years ago, left forces in Latin America and in the world in general were going through a difficult period. The Berlin Wall had fallen; the Soviet Union hurtled into an abyss and disappeared...
View ArticleA World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism
Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America's most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement...
View ArticleSocial Movements and Progressive Governments
The major element missing from Latin American politics in recent decades has been, with rare exceptions, the traditional workers’ movement, beaten down by flexibilization, subcontracting, and other...
View Article‘A New Revolutionary Subject’
This article will be made available online on April 24th. Although today there are some setbacks in the region, nobody can deny that there is a huge difference between the Latin America that Hugo...
View ArticlePlanning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal
Political scientist, author, and activist, Marta Harnecker has devoted her life to collaborating in building radical democracy in Latin American communities where people have, for generations,...
View ArticleA New Revolutionary Subject
Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press author, world socialist activist, and theorist of revolution, Marta Harnecker, died on June 15, 2019, at age 82. In her memory, we republish an exchange between...
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