Chapter 1 - Living life on their own terms

Why did such a large majority of Chileans (62%) reject the new draft constitution in the plebiscite on 4 September? Emily Gregg analyses the salient reasons and asks, if not like this, then how is change to be effected?

A new film from Marcos Colón interviews indigenous leaders from across the Amazon whose thinking could transform our world as modern extraction and exploitation tip us further towards chaos and the destruction of the planet

Chile's constituent process, which, led by the consistent work of social movements, seeks to dismantle the first laboratory of neoliberal capitalism, offers lessons to the left in the UK and worldwide.

Franziska Reiffen and Giorgio Berti review the film Fondo, directed by Alejandro Bercovich, (Argentina, 2019). The complete film can be viewed from this link. Alejandro...

This important article by Raúl Zibechi and Juan Wahren was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has...

This article by Pepe Escobar first appeared in the Asia Times of 11 November. You can read the original here. Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian...

LAB received this report from a long-term friend and supporter in Chile. Santiago, 1 November Dear friends at LAB, our country received so much help from...

This interview, by special correspondent Bruno Meyerfeld, appeared in Le Monde on 12 September 2019. The original, in French, can be read here. It...

Jean Tible argues that a living Marxism must be open to contamination in order to break the spell of bewitched capitalism. We must...

Since taking office on 1 December 2018, president Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been a man in a hurry. Aged 65, he is said to...