Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn address the Adelante conference in central London
LATIN AMERICA is at the heart of the rise of the global South, a packed Adelante conference in central London heard on Saturday.
Hundreds of activists at the annual Latin American conference, held at the National Education Union’s London HQ, took part in 21 workshops, two keynote plenary sessions and heard some 70 speakers celebrate the role that progressives are playing in placing Latin America at the heart of global resistance to imperialism.
Vijay Prashad, the director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, said: "While the global North loses economic power and increases militarisation, the global South is growing economically and demanding independence.
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