Reply #52: What is really happening

[aneerkoinos]

In South- and Central-America, it's not just one country, it's the whole continent. The masses are mobilized, they are giving representative democracy and "third way" policies one last chance, TPTB are plenty scared. The left has the initiative, Venezuela and Uruguay are getting radical and Lula is getting challenged from the left. Things may get violent, but not necessarily, it will be the oligarchy that will open the fire, but at their own peril - their base of power (US) is weaker than ever, and they know it - the oligarchy has no legitimacy. Things are very much like 1989 in the Soviet Empire, biggest difference is that their propaganda machine (corporate media) is still strong and influential, but Interenet, bloggers etc. are eroding it's credibility.

Here in the North there's a lull, anti-capitalist mass demonstrations are pretty much dead, but is this silence before the storm or last gasp, remains to be seen. Comrades, the battle front is in Latin America, for all of us.