Women were prominently present in anti-dictatorship movements in Latin-America, and the aim of gender equality was naturally connected to the fight for human rights. The past two decades brought relevant changes in the situation for women, which can be attributed to the leftist political turn on the continent. Nevertheless, the improvement is scattered: the advance is substantial concerning economic areas and education but the improvement is slow on the violence against women, and reactionary tendencies also can be found concerning reproductive rights even in countries under leftist governments.
Category Archives: Former issues
Patricio Guzmán Campos the Recorder of the Life in Chile
The Unavoidable Solitude. Varlam Shalamov and the Theoretical Heritage
The shadow of Solzhenitsyn, who is well known or even a star in the West, still hides the oeuvre of Varlam Shalamov, the representative of Gulag literature overgrowing him. The importance of him can be compared of Gogol, Platonov and Bely. Shalamov, until the end of his life, insisted on the ethos of the Trotskyist opposition of the 1920s and the revolutionary message of the Russian intelligentsia on the "unity of words and act" – not matching anti-Stalinism with anti-Soviet theories.
Marx in the Cinema
Analysing social developments from a Marxists point of view is traditional in this journal, while this approach is mentioned in other circles mostly with a negative context, if it is mentioned at all. To hear about Marxism inspired art, for instance films, or about analyses and debates about the link between Marxism and films, we have to go back in time or far away, leaving the Continent arriving in the Preston University, US – from where the author reports.