Unions, Native People Fight Mining “Reforms” and Police Repression in Argentina
For weeks now, the people of Jujuy, Argentina, have been in the streets resisting right-wing political attacks on wages and the right to protest. In the past few days the conflict has escalated with...
View ArticleYoung People’s Anger Fuels Far-Right Populist as Argentina’s Election Nears
(Image: Wikipedia) The star of Argentina’s ongoing election cycle is a libertarian economist who has proposed complete dollarisation and claims climate breakdown is a “socialist lie”. Every TV channel...
View ArticleElections in Argentina: Between Aporophobia and Indifference
This post is also available in: Spanish On the eve of the Simultaneous and Compulsory Open Primary Elections (PASO), Argentine candidates are deploying all their communication strategies to win the...
View ArticleArgentina: a Desperate Cry for Change, on the Edge of a Precipice
After the primary elections on Sunday 13 with the partial victory of the far-right Javier Milei, Argentina is going through weeks of uncertainty: the electorate’s weariness with politicians seems to...
View ArticleArgentina’s Economic Crisis Has Become a Political Crisis
The unexpected victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei in Argentina’s primaries marks a crisis for both Peronism and its traditional conservative antagonists. No one knows exactly what will...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why The Radical Right Could Win Argentina’s Presidential Elections
Many were left stunned by Argentina’s August 13 primary elections, which saw extreme right libertarian candidate Javier Milei win just over 30% of votes cast and push the opposition and governing...
View ArticleMilei’s Chainsaw
Having led his libertarian party alliance La Libertad Avanza into Congress in 2021, the far-right Argentine politician Javier Milei has once again outperformed expectations. In the August presidential...
View ArticleArgentine Feminists Gather on Eve of Electoral Storm
October is proving to be a busy month in Argentina. Between October 14 and 16, the 36th Plurinational Gathering of Women, Lesbians, Transvestites, Trans, Bisexual, Intersex and Non-Binary people will...
View ArticleElections in Argentina: A Working Class Perspective
A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90% of the polls indicated that the winner would be Javier Milei, the “insane” candidate of the right—as described by Estela de Carlotto,...
View ArticleFeminist Politicization Slows Far Right Momentum in Argentina
The second round of elections in Argentina will take place on Sunday, November 19th, amidst currency devaluation and growing indebtedness. Ultra-right politician Javier Milei and his rightwing ally...
View ArticleThe “Libertarian” Javier Milei Will Be Argentina’s Next President
Argentina embraced the far right. Javier Milei, 53, won the second round of Argentina’s elections with 56% of the vote against the current economy minister Sergio Massa, who won 44% of the vote. Massa,...
View ArticleWhat Argentina’s New Grand Experiment Means to the World
Milei’s victory is an international marker, of sorts, for America’s billionaires and largest corporations, who share his desire to end liberal democracy and the so-called “welfare state”… I hope I’m...
View ArticleArgentines, Faced With Awful Choice, Elect Right-Wing Non-Establishment...
Argentina elected Javier Milei, a right-wing libertarian populist as its president on November 19th. Milei won because he represented a clear alternative to Argentina’s untenable economic crisis, says...
View ArticleArgentina is Not For Sale: Unions Respond to Privatization, Regional...
Argentines weary of annual inflation soaring above 140% and a poverty rate that reached 40% have elected right-wing libertarian economist Javier Milei. On Sunday, November 19, 2023, Milei defeated...
View ArticleMilei’s and Wilders’ Wins Suggest We Haven’t Reached Peak Populism
Panic does not produce prudent politics. Panic produces provocative populists. And it reduces pundits to Seussian spluttering. How can voters choose such… panic-peddling panderers?! The defeats of...
View ArticleJavier Milei and Jair Bolsonaro Are Both Products of Neoliberalism in Its Age...
Javier Milei’s recent victory in the Argentine presidential election has left many wondering what place reactionary right-wing politics still holds in Latin America. Less than a year following the...
View ArticleMilei Couples ‘Total Crackdown’ on Protest With Economic Shocks in Argentina
As the human impact of Argentinian President Javier Milei’s “shock treatment” to the South American country’s economy became increasingly clear with rising prices on Thursday, Security Minister...
View ArticleJavier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians
Javier Milei became Argentina’s president this month promising “shock therapy” to curb inflation and resolve the country’s foreign debt and currency reserve woes. Last Wednesday, the Argentine public...
View ArticleNot One Step Back: National General Strike In Argentina Against Milei’s...
Across Argentina millions are participating in a national general strike to protest the Milei government’s widespread attacks on people’s rights On January 24, across Argentina, millions of workers are...
View ArticleMilei, A Shot in the Dark
I never imagined that a character like Milei would be elected president by the Argentinians. His discourse, his personality, his appearances, and intemperate reactions, together with his background,...
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