Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
April 4, 2024 | Organized labor offers a counterbalance to democratic backsliding, Argentina's recent experience shows.
Articles by Martin Espada
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
January 24, 2024 | Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another
December 19, 2023 | In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Stone Hammered to Gravel
January 1, 2010 | A poetic tribute to South Africa poet and activist Dennis Brutus.
Bush’s Out-of-Tune AIDS Plan
February 18, 2008 | On his tour of Africa, President Bush promotes an album with serious lyrical flaws that illustrate the ineffectiveness of the U.S. response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.