ANTICONQUISTA's new series where we provide a recap of this weeks news events in Latin America from the Marxist-Leninist perspective. The week of June 20, 2021

Organised by Geopolitical Economy Research Group - GERG, Qiao Collective and ANTICONQUISTA

Panelists

-Nicholas Ayala, ANTICONQUISTA

-Maria Victor, former member-at-large of the Ontario Law Commission

-Marco Fernandes, Dongsheng News

The Biden administration has set a clear course for continuing to escalate Washington’s aggression towards China. This comes at a time where movements against racism, against police violence, and for economic, social and climate justice are only growing. As the US sets the stage for confrontation with China, it’s increasingly important to think about how to channel the energy and momentum generated by these movements into preventing the escalation of violence and aggression by Washington and its allies.

To do this, an understanding of the countries they target as official enemies is necessary. For progressives in Canada and the US, an understanding of progressive movements and government in Latin America is essential. In recent decades, Left movements and governments in Latin America have won victories, suffered setbacks and sustained popular movements that progressives in the US and Canada can learn from. Accordingly, they have often become the target of the US and Canadian governments. At the same, there is growing imperial anxiety over China’s increased presence in the region – Washington’s so-called “backyard”. Far from another imperial power aiming to subordinate Latin American countries to its own interests, China’s presence in the region presents opportunities to pursue economic development without having to submit to neoliberal imperial preferences.

This panel will discuss progressive movements and governments in Latin America and their relationship with China.

Anticonquista co-editor Carlos gives a talk at London's University of Westminster on the influence of Jose Carlos Mariategui in Latin American Marxist thought. From revolutionaries like Che Guevara to Latin American dependency theorists, Mariategui's influence on the social movements in the homeland is undeniable.

Join us for a discussion with Antonio Fernandez aka King Tone, Inca of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, and veteran ALKQN leader Valen aka Madrina. Sons of Fidel will discuss the Black Panther Party for Self Defense's Pamphlet entitled "Capitalism + Dope = Genocide" and how this is relevant to our families and communities today.

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On Sunday, April 4, ANTICONQUISTA will be hosting a Diaspora Conference for socialist and communist organizations within the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora. We hope to transform ANTICONQUISTA into an umbrella coalition organization for these diverse movements.

We envision a huge platform where progressive, socialist and communist groups in the diaspora can collectively organize to deal with the numerous struggles we face nationally where we are but also back in our homeland. It will be the platform that our community will look to first to keep informed but also to get involved in direct action as we understand it in this modern era.

Interested in joining and getting involved with the Diaspora Conference? Send us an e-mail at [email protected] with "Diaspora Conference" in the title.

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A political education session hosted on March 4, 2021 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editors Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez and Nick Ayala and featuring comrade Chantei. Our guest is Erica Caines.

Erica is a poet, writer and organizer in Baltimore and the DMV area. She is an organizing committee member of the anti-war coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace as well as an outreach member of the Black-centered Ujima People’s Progress Party. Erica founded Liberation Through Reading in 2017 as a way to provide Black children with books that represent them.

In this session, we discuss "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," a book published in 1972 by African revolutionary Walter Rodney, who had roots in Guyana. In his book, Rodney explains how wealth and prosperity in Europe is directly correlated with the colonization and exploitation of Africa.

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Sons Of Fidel interviews former Young Lord Carlito Rovira.

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Western headlines do little to explain the true social and historical roots of the rebellion in Haiti. Join us in a panel giving a voice to three Haitian leaders and their analysis of this important moment.

Ecuador y la lucha para reconquistar el poder con Yumac Ortiz de CPAZ, Ecuador & the Struggle to Reconquer People’s Power

A political education session hosted on February 20, 2021 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editors Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez and Nick Ayala. Our special guest is Ernesto Ayala, a militant of El Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida. Ernesto is also on the team of Tele-Jaguar, a revolutionary Chicano media outlet. In this session, we discuss "The National Question," an essay published by Soviet communist revolutionary Joseph Stalin. It forms part of his broader work, "The Foundations of Leninism," which was published in 1953. In his essay, Stalin explains the role of national liberation and self-determination in the global socialist revolution. He also discusses the importance of supporting Global South nations in the fight against Western imperialism.

A political education session hosted on February 13, 2021 by ANTICONQUISTA Co-Editors Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez and Nick Ayala. In this session, we discuss "On Contradiction," an essay published in 1937 by Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong. In his essay, Mao explains contradiction, the law of the unity of opposites. He reviews the scientific basis of this key Marxist concept: dialectical materialism. He also discusses its practical application in revolutionary organizing.