We have become accustomed to referring to postwar periods: the post-Second World War era, the post-Vietnam era, the post-Cold War era. But we have potentially entered a new and dangerous prewar era of intense superpower jockeying in which bloc politics returns to the fore.
The challenge for the revolutionary movement continent-wide is to build influence amid the instability of a spent economic model and seemingly scattering political memory in the whirlwind.
The left the world over could learn a lesson from the serious, hard-headed organising taking place in hospital wards and tyre factories, on the streets and in the universities in Argentina.
The same scene is playing out in more than 70 university campuses across Argentina: students fill gymnasiums, outdoor spaces, lecture theatres and streets.
Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina. Carlos Barros, a student activist at the University of Buenos Aires, spoke to Red Flag about how things look on the ground.
