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Capitalism Hits the Fan. Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown. A Media Education Foundation Production (mediaed.org) DVD 2009.

For Mariel and her whole family, for being part of this quilt of insubordinations. Thank you, sister.

This article offers a brief reflection on the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and the recent changes that have taken place in the politics of the Brazilian land reform. Land reform is a territorial policy that does not address the full complexity of the agrarian question. For this study, we view the agrarian question as a structural problem of capitalism (Fernandes 2001), part of its inherent logic of development.

Prologue

We came to the Festival with immense outrage. Atenco, Oaxaca, Gaza, the shot that killed Alexis – all of them came with us. And we were in Zapatista territories, which were under the daily attack. We came with the conviction that the time had come to transform our outrage into courage, the courage of rebellion. And we came ready to learn from other outrages how to do this.

Territory and Struggle Under Neoliberalism

The global context has a decisive influence on the form and content of people's struggles. The cycle of social struggles currently underway in Guatemala is partly a response to structural and historical demands, which have never been democratically resolved. But it is also a response to new factors spurred by a new strategy of capital accumulation and its competition on a global scale for markets, cheap manual labor, and natural resources.

Talks given at a Memorial for Philip Agee held at the West Side Y in New York City, on May 3, 2009. For more information on Agee see Chris John Agee, “Bridging the Gap: Philip Agee, 1935-2008,” in NACLA Report on the Americas (Jan-Feb, 2009), 9-13.

Melvin Wulf:

Atilio A. Boron is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Buenos Aires and Director of PLED, the Latin American Program of Distance Education in the Social Sciences of the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación Floreal Gorini. His most recent books are Socialismo Siglo Veintiuno: ¿Hay vida después del neoliberalismo? (2008) and (with Andrea Vlahusic) El lado oscuro del imperio: La violación de los derechos humanos por los Estados Unidos (2009).

Introduction

Pity the self-despising slaves of Heaven, Not me, within whose mind sits peace serene, As light in the sun, throned… How vain is talk! Call up the fiends. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ximena de la Barra and Richard A. Dello Buono, Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region Is Possible