Dan La Botz is a writer. His most recent book is the novel Trotsky in Tijuana, learn more at trotskyintijuana.com. Address: Brooklyn, New York, United States
espanolLos conflictos sociales mas importantes en Estados Unidos en 2013 EnglishThe Most Importan... more espanolLos conflictos sociales mas importantes en Estados Unidos en 2013 EnglishThe Most Important Social Conflicts in the United States in 2013
This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of La... more This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.
This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of La... more This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.
The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, t... more The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, the result of twenty years of neoliberal economic policies and the transformation of the Mexican one-party state. A new independent labor movement has emerged which has not only broken with the old state-controlled labor-relations system, but has also put itself forward as the leader of the social movements, and, at the moment, appears as a real political force that can challenge the government This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
espanolLos conflictos sociales mas importantes en Estados Unidos en 2013 EnglishThe Most Importan... more espanolLos conflictos sociales mas importantes en Estados Unidos en 2013 EnglishThe Most Important Social Conflicts in the United States in 2013
This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of La... more This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.
This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of La... more This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.
The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, t... more The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, the result of twenty years of neoliberal economic policies and the transformation of the Mexican one-party state. A new independent labor movement has emerged which has not only broken with the old state-controlled labor-relations system, but has also put itself forward as the leader of the social movements, and, at the moment, appears as a real political force that can challenge the government This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
A discussion of Spanish colonial labor law and particularly of the laws's impact on the health an... more A discussion of Spanish colonial labor law and particularly of the laws's impact on the health and safety of colonial working people
What was the debate between Leon Trotsky and Boris Souvarine in the late 1920s?
This paper was p... more What was the debate between Leon Trotsky and Boris Souvarine in the late 1920s?
This paper was presented at the Conference on LeonTrotsky held in Havana, Cuba in May 2019. Sponsors of the event included the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research, the Cuban Institute of Philosophy, Casa Museo León Trotski in Coyoacan, Mexico, and the Karl Marx Center for Socialist Studies in Mexico City.
The Theory of World Revolution is the previously unpublished draft of a book written in 1990 that... more The Theory of World Revolution is the previously unpublished draft of a book written in 1990 that discusses the Marxist theories of world revolution, permanent revolution, imperialism, bureaucratic collectivism, and the crisis of bureaucratic collectivism. Because of difficulties in digitalizing the text, I am publishing he draft in the form of scanned pages here.
Le nouveau populisme américain : Résistances et alternatives face à Trump. , 2018
This is the English language version of my book Le nouveau populisme américain : Résistances et ... more This is the English language version of my book Le nouveau populisme américain : Résistances et alternatives face à Trump. Paris: Syllepse, May 2018. The English language version differs somewhat from the French translation and it contains more complete footnotes.
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This paper was presented at the Conference on LeonTrotsky held in Havana, Cuba in May 2019. Sponsors of the event included the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research, the Cuban Institute of Philosophy, Casa Museo León Trotski in Coyoacan, Mexico, and the Karl Marx Center for Socialist Studies in Mexico City.