Come What May

Authors

  • Valter Pomar UFABC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v20i36.31857

Keywords:

Latin American, parties, governments, left, capitalism.

Abstract

From 1990 to 2016 the São Paulo Forum has been one of the principle organizational spaces for the Latin American left. The parties that make up the Forum were directly involved in the changes in the regional political conjuncture that occurred beginning with the election of Hugo Chávez, Nestor Kirchner and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The growth of the left in the region was not accompanied by a strategic debate. This did not prevent the electoral victories of the left, but it weakened the left in the face of the rightwing counteroffensive that began in 2008. Today, we need to insert into this assessment and into the strategy for the construction of socialism in the XXIst century an in-depth debate on XXIst century capitalism.

Author Biography

Valter Pomar, UFABC

Doutor em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professor de Relações Internacionais da Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André-SP, Brasil. Entre 2005 e 2013, foi secretário executivo do Foro de São Paulo. Autor, junto com Roberto Regalado, do livro Foro de São Paulo: construindo a integração latino-americana e caribenha. São Paulo: Editora da Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2013.

Published

2016-06-30

How to Cite

Pomar, V. (2016). Come What May. Lutas Sociais, 20(36), 194–201. https://doi.org/10.23925/ls.v20i36.31857