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