Steve Striffler
Steve Striffler is Director of the Labor Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights (Pluto Press, 2019). He is also co-editor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans.
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Views Thursday, March 12, 2020 Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens—US Foreign Policy as Bernie’s Next Frontier Whether he wins the Democratic nomination or not, Bernie Sanders has reframed the domestic debate within the Democratic Party and the nation as a whole. Ideas that were virtually unimaginable even a decade ago – guaranteed healthcare, free college, doubling the minimum wage, seriously taking on... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Venezuela, US Solidarity, and the Future of Socialism In the late 1990s and early 2000s popular forces in Latin America ushered in what came to be known as the pink tide, a hemispheric backlash against neoliberalism. Latin Americans succeeded in electing a diverse group of left-of-center leaders who advocated anti-neoliberal policies that ranged from... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 29, 2015 Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to 'Political Revolution' The 10th anniversary of the devastation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been an occasion for reflection on that horrific event and the state of the city’s recovery. Much of that commemoration, especially locally, has centered on the theme of resilience . This is... Read more |