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New Book by Prof. Dan La Botz on Nicaraguan Revolution
Dan La Botz, an Adjunct Professor at the Murphy Institute, on the publication of his new book, The Nicaraguan Revolution: What Went Wrong: A Marxist Analysis, published by Brill. In this volume, La Botz argues that the FSLN—the Sandinistas—failed to maintain a commitment to democracy, thus undermining the promise of the revolution. Dan La Botz has…
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The Champ in Our Corner
By Dan La Botz After Muhammad Ali refused induction — we had the champ in our corner. When in June of 1963 I graduated from Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach, just south of San Diego, California, I went to my local Selective Service Board—the draft board—and registered as a conscientious objector. My paternal…
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Mexican Labor News and Analysis: February, 2016
Dan La Botz continues to bring us fascinating commentary on labor in Mexico with the February edition of Mexican Labor News & Analysis. Check out the contents below & read on: Contents for this issue: The Pope in Mexico Twenty Years since the San Andres Accords Mexican Economic Situation Leads to Deep Budget Cuts U.S., Mexican…
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Mexico Labor Year in Review
This article was first published in Mexican Labor News and Analysis. By Dan La Botz 2015 was another in a series of very bad years for Mexico. Mexican working people continued to experience in 2015 the difficulties of a stagnant economy, the violence of the drug war, repression of the labor and social movements, and…
