The essential nature of the national question in Latin America and the Caribbean is that of national self-determination and the right to pursue independent policies beneficial to the overwhelming majority of the people. It is a struggle for freedom and against US imperialism. (Blade Nzimande, “Imperialism, the Crisis of Neo-Liberalism and the Struggle for an Alternative in Latin America,” The African Communist, No. 159, 2002)

Philadelphia school teachers, students and parents lead the fight against handing over the city’s public schools to a failing corporation.