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    The Law of Mother Earth: Behind Bolivia's historic bill
    April 2011
    Nick Buxton

    Approval of Bolivia's revolutionary 'Mother Earth' law is an historic step by social movements in a long struggle for real ecological transformation of their economy and society.

    The resistible rise of corporate power
    October 2010
    Hilary Wainwright

    The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

    Peoples Conference model of inclusion offers only path forward on climate change
    May 2010
    Nick Buxton

    The Peoples' conference on climate change showed that a global movement, much larger than anyone imagined and with firm proposals, has coalesced and gathered strength

    Communitarian socialism in Bolivia
    April 2010
    Roger Burbach

    What does Morales' promise for a "communitarian socialism" amount to?

    Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen
    January 2010
    Nick Buxton

    Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal -  the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use the much weaker language of “noting” it.

    Shielding the President
    April 2009
    Nick Buxton
    Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?
    Bolivia’s New Constitution
    February 2009
    Nick Buxton

    Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries...

    A revolution without borders: reappraising Bolivia’s crisis
    December 2008
    TNI
     Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete

    Bolivia, a country used to being ignored by the western media, has hit the headlines in recent months due to the marked increase in violence among opponents and supporters of the government. Back in December 2005 Bolivia, a country in which 62 per cent of the population identify themselves as...

    The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia
    November 2008
    Roger Burbach
    Bolivian President Evo Morales is visiting the United Nations and the Organization of American States this week to report on the recent US coup attempt against his government. Roger Burbach provides a story of US efforts over the past three years to topple Morales.

    Evo Morales is the...

    Bolivia’s popular upheaval
    September 2008
    Roger Burbach
     Tanya M. Kerssen and Roger Burbach

    A popular upheaval is sweeping Bolivia, threatening the departmental capital of Santa Cruz, the bastion of the right wing rebellion against the government of Evo Morales. Some twenty thousand miners, peasants and coca growers are moving on the city to reclaim state institutions occupied by...

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