Perspectives of the left in Latin America - Franck Gaudichaud

OUTLINE

The left, popular and anticapitalist nationalisms in Latin America

Introduction:

Crisis of hegemony, social struggles and “progressism”. The new conjuncture in Latin America

1. A “left turn”?

- some problems with definitions

- the Latin-American left: historic legacies, breaks and elements of renewal

- popular nationalisms, social-liberalism and governmental left

- two lefts of a thousand lefts?

2. Class struggles, social movements and Latin-American “progressisms”

- different actors in the struggles ( indigenous, unions, feminists, etc.)

- movements, parties and governments: what kind of relations?

- the Bolivarian process in Venezuela

- the experience of the MAS in Bolivia

- lessons from the PT in Brazil

3. “Socialism of the 21st Century”? The new debates on strategy

- Change the world without taking power? Imaginary and real Zapatism

- Cuba past and present

- neocapitalism, extractivism and model of development

- road towards an afro-indo-american ecosocialism