Workshop | Popular Fronts and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas: Past and Present

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This workshop will bring together scholars, activists, and policymakers to reflect collectively on the authoritarian challenges to democracy in the 21st century. Amidst the rise of a new radical right throughout the Americas, this workshop provides a space to discuss the need to build democratic coalitions capable of protecting democratic rule and civic rights currently under threat. To do so, participants will examine the historical experience of popular fronts in the 1930s and 1940s and assess the viability of such forms of coalitional democratic politics in the present. The need to preserve democracy in the region while advancing social and economic reforms that improve people’s everyday lives constitutes the driving force behind our proposal.