Chile: why was the new constitution rejected?
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?
Stepping softly on the earth
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: long path towards a democratic constitution
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.
Fondo: the IMF’s recipe for disaster
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...
Lula and Alberto Fernández in discussion
The Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires organized a virtual dialogue 'Thinking about Latin America After the Pandemic' on Friday...
The world below grows in silence
This important article by Raúl Zibechi and Juan Wahren was originally published in Spanish in August 2019 (read the original here). Cristina Flores has...
Released Lula in for greatest fight of his life
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...
Chile: why didn’t this happen before?
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...
Lula speaks from prison
In a subtitled interview, above, the political prisoner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks of strategic errors made by the PT, BRICS, and...
Lula: I’m on the side of truth
This interview, by special correspondent Bruno Meyerfeld, appeared in Le Monde on 12 September 2019. The original, in French, can be read here. It...