Aug 23
En Estados Unidos está creciendo el movimiento de liberación de las minorías y muy especial de las Afroamericanas, que está teniendo gran impacto en la vida política del país. Resultado de su creciente madurez, existe la percepción de elementos importantes de tal movimiento, de que es necesario aliarse con otros movimientos de liberación para poder actuar conjuntamente y conseguir una mayor transformación más profunda de la sociedad. Ello conlleva la necesidad de establecer espacios políticos de coalición que tengan elementos en común como la clase social. El modelo es el movimiento Arcoíris “Rainbow Coalition” fundado por Jesse Jackson, discípulo predilecto de Martin Luther King, que unió los distintos sectores de la clase trabajadora de aquel país perteneciente a distintos grupos sociales, políticos y culturales. Tal coalición casi ganó las primarias del partido demócrata de 1988.
This article published in Portside on August 8, 2023, by Vicente Navarro helps to clarify that the current dichotomy of race or class as the major focus for the development of progressive strategies for change has serious limitations, Jesse Jackson showed that all the discriminated and exploited sectors of the working population of the U.S. need, besides fighting for their liberation, to ally themselves in broader coalitions asking for profound changes that will benefit all of them. It is not, therefore, race or class but rather race and class. This is how the first call for Universal Health Program put forward by Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition almost became part of the Democratic Party platform of 1988 and that is also why, later on, the Clinton health care task force reforms of 1992 failed.
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Mar 06
Article by Vicente Navarro published in Counterpunch on the 6th of February, 2023.
This article describes the enormous limitations of the democratic system in the U.S. that has facilitated the growth of Trumpism.
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Dec 12
Article by Vicente Navarro, published in Counterpunch, on the 12th of December, 2022.
This article explains the causes of the growth of Fascism and Nazism, from the 1930s, during The Great Depression, until the present day. It also includes the growth of Neo-Fascism and Neo-Nazism movements that occurred during The Great Recession and afterward due to the application of neoliberal policies by the governments on both sides of the North Atlantic, including in countries with very different (quasi-opposite) political traditions, such as Sweden (with a historically strong labor movement) and the U.S. (with a historically weak labor movement). The article also focuses on the consequences of this growth, representing a serious threat to democratic institutions and to the well-being and quality of life of the majority of their populations.
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Aug 09
Political economy, USA, Welfare State, Europe, International, International, Neoliberalism and Globalization, Spanish Politics, Political Transition, Political Transition, USA
This article by Professor Navarro published in the International Journal of Health Services shows the enormous importance of the category social class, besides race and gender to understand the political, social and health situation of the United States.
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Jun 15
Article by Professor Navarro analyzing the impact of social class in shaping the political events in the United States, including the elections of November 2020, published in Monthly Review, June 2021.
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