ABSTRACT

The resurgence of the Right and the class struggle has found its most intense, comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina with the election of Mauricio Macri. The election of Maurice Macro in December 2015 was a clear signal of the beginning of the end of the latest progressive cycle in Latin American class politics. The downturn of Brazil's economy since 2012 has also activated a turn to the right in Brazilian class politics, as well as a new phase in the class struggle. A new Right with distinctive characteristics and electoral support is emerging in the world and has emerged in Latin America. The working class has little in the way of comparable international solidarity. What it had has been steadily eroded in a series of losing battles fought by organized labour against an ascendant and powerful capitalist class in firm control of the state apparatus and all of its powers.