America and Europe

Imperialism, in its American and European versions, “will not drive.” In response to the adverse consequences of its dominance, provoked by the surge of present and active Latino-Caribbean changes in the last three decades, there are social convulsions springing up in some Western European countries (Iceland, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain…) and the so-called “Arab Spring.”

Both phenomena, shaken by imperialistic controls, were preceded by the obstructions in Iraq and Afghanistan and by sharp expressions of crisis in the American/European conquest military strategy for territory and riches. We’re not surprised by the imperialist presence in Libya after cutting ties with Gadhafi, with the continued grotesque aggression from NATO, leading up to the unfolded genocide and horrendous assassination of the Libyan leader. And if that wasn’t enough, the same is being attempted in Syria and Iran.

The changes in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen — which are pro-American dictatorships that have each been respectively defeated — have varying degrees of intervention and progress as a result of levels of nationalism and/or camouflaged infiltration. Similarly, there’s the factor of anti- or pro-capitalist components, liberal or revolutionary, and of the correlation of forces within the set that has starred in the mass rebellions in those countries. There’s the common denominator of the absence of a leading strategic management and coordination of a polarizing network of revolutionary leaders of advanced social movements leaning toward the creation of alternative powers.

However, the fact is that the Western powers, particularly the United States, have lost areas it has tightly controlled for decades, and, above all, the stability of its dominance in key strategic areas. All this occurs within a growing global multipolarity with new difficulties like powers such as Russia and China, especially as it relates to serious conflicts rising in these areas alongside an aggravated chronic crisis of European and American capitalism.

It just so happens that with the Arab Spring and the massive indignations in the U.S. and Europe — with the caveat that most of these struggles have not generated advanced governments, leaving space for some right parts — something is worth mentioning with regard to the successions of the last three decades in our America: There’s the need to develop more qualitative factors, including articulators and leaders of revolutionary transitions, as well as the construction of new powers at the societal and state levels, in both consciousness and organization arising from the tremendous experience accumulated by mankind.