Assessing the Brazilian Workers’ Party
Looking back at thirteen years of ambiguous reform and one swift counteroffensive.
20412 Article(s) by: Frances Abele
Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
The Panthers and the Patriots
The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.
El Diego
Just as every party in Argentina tries to claim Juan Perón’s legacy, so every government tries to bring Maradona into its fold.
We Have Been Naught
Chávez performed best in poor districts, worse in rich ones.
The Spoils of Class War
Years of Pink Tide governance saw tremendous gains for ordinary Latin Americans.
The Worst Person in the Room
Some people have abhorrent politics but pleasant personalities. Others are terrible people with good politics. Roger Ailes was neither.
Against “Buy American”
“Buy American” campaigns have historically done more to intensify xenophobia than improve workers’ conditions.
Will Temer Fall?
Explosive new corruption allegations could spell the end for Brazil’s interim president. What does it mean for the Left?
The Occupation’s Accomplice
Mass incarceration is a central pillar of Israeli occupation. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are waging a hunger strike to fight it.
A New Day in Philadelphia
A left-wing civil rights lawyer is within reach of becoming Philadelphia’s district attorney. Can he use the office to roll back mass incarceration?
South Korea After Park
Moon Jae-in’s presidential victory closed the door on Park Geun-hye’s scandal-prone administration, but will it create space for real social and political transformation?
Winner Take All
Even after ISIS is defeated in northern Iraq, the country won’t see an end to violent conflict.
The Imperial Bureau
The FBI embodies authoritarianism more than any other domestic agency. It can’t curb Trump’s autocratic tendencies.
“We Are Not the Dirt We Clean”
Cleaners at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are waging an indefinite, one-day-a-week strike.
Michael Manley’s Vision
Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley died twenty years ago. What can we learn from his democratic socialism?
Communism in Words
A brief history of Esperanto, the language intimately tied to the common destiny of the working class.
Slavery, War, and Revolution
Marx’s Civil War writings wrestle with many of the issues that plague today’s left.
Dialectical Enlightenment
The socialist project isn’t to rebel against the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but to show how capitalism is incapable of fulfilling them.