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Saturday 18 August 2012
Chile: For a plan of struggle to stop the Hinzpeter Law
Repression is not making us surrender

With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from the Interior Ministry.



Wednesday 9 May 2012
Chile: Free education is won with struggle, strikes, occupations and without bureaucracy
The student movement retakes the streets

More than 100,000 students mobilized nationally on April 25. Only a few days after the announcement by Piñera’s government of some reforms that do not aim at the central demand of the movement...



Wednesday 21 September 2011
Chile
We are all Manuel Gutiérrez!

Early morning, on Friday, August 26, Manuel was together with his brother and a friend, when he was shot in the chest. Several witnesses, neighbors and his own brother, are charging that the bullets...



Wednesday 31 August 2011
Three months of students’ struggle. First day of the CUT’s 48-hour strike
Three months of students’ struggle.

At press time for this edition, the first day of the national 48-hour strike called by the Chilean Trade Union Congress (CUT) was reaching its climax.




USP | Fora a polícia da Universidade!


Saturday 19 November 2011
Military police, out of the University of Sao Paulo!
“They arrested 73.... Now there are thousands of us fighting at the same time"

The transformation of the Butanta campus into a battlefield, on Tuesday, November 8, with 73 political prisoners, prosecuted for struggling, recalling the darkest days of the military dictatorship...



Saturday 12 November 2011
Brazil: University of Sao Paulo
Students organize a mass struggle against the police

Since the beginning of the semester, the military police have been a daily presence in the University of Sao Paulo (USP).




Chile: ¡Viva la lucha de los estudiantes y trabajadores!


Saturday 18 August 2012
Chile: For a plan of struggle to stop the Hinzpeter Law
Repression is not making us surrender

With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from the Interior Ministry.



Wednesday 9 May 2012
Chile: Free education is won with struggle, strikes, occupations and without bureaucracy
The student movement retakes the streets

More than 100,000 students mobilized nationally on April 25. Only a few days after the announcement by Piñera’s government of some reforms that do not aim at the central demand of the movement...



Wednesday 21 September 2011
Chile
We are all Manuel Gutiérrez!

Early morning, on Friday, August 26, Manuel was together with his brother and a friend, when he was shot in the chest. Several witnesses, neighbors and his own brother, are charging that the bullets...




FIT | Argentina Elections 2011


Monday 16 April 2012
Argentina - PTS
Expropriation without compensation of the entire YPF company under workers’ control!

Not a single peso from the Pensioners’ Fund (ANSES)!

Not a single peso from the reserves of the Central Bank for the looters of Repsol-YPF!



Thursday 1 March 2012
Letter from the PTS to the Partido Obrero (with a copy to the leadership of Izquierda Socialista)

This letter was delivered by hand to the leaderships of the Partido Obrero (PO) and Izquierda Socialista on Wednesday, February 15.



Monday 15 August 2011
Press Release
The Left Front obtained more than 500,000 votes

Christian Castillo, a leading member of the PTS and Vice-presidential candidate for the Workers Left Front, stated that “in the context of a conservative election, where the working population has chosen to back the government as a lesser evil to the bosses’ opposition candidates, we received massive support from workers and young people in these primary elections.




Spanish State




Monday 20 May 2013
Spanish state: Unemployment, evictions, corruption, national oppression...
The king in check, the regime in check

Contracorriente Nº 36 Special edition

For a revolutionary constituent process.

For a working-class and socialist solution to the crisis



Wednesday 27 February 2013
Big convergence of the “tides”
Mass demonstrations against the attacks from Rajoy’s government

Doctors, teachers, firefighters, workers from the private sector, unemployed workers, and students, yelling “Against the coup d’état by the markets, we owe nothing, we’re not paying,” demonstrated in more that 80 Spanish cities, with the support of more than 300 organizations.



Friday 22 February 2013
Spain
Mass demonstrations against evictions and for the right to housing

Last Saturday, February 16, the PAH (“Platform of those affected by mortgages”) organized demonstrations throughout Spain, against the calamity of the evictions and for the right to housing.




NPA | France




Tuesday 5 February 2013
France: In Political Sciences of Paris, a lecture hall completely filled
Meeting against layoffs and for the convergence of the struggles

On Thursday evening, it was difficult to recognise the Political Sciences building, this “venerable institution,” that trains the future managerial staff of the bourgeoisie.



Thursday 19 July 2012
France - National Conference of the NPA
For a revolutionary policy, independent of reformism, that prioritises struggles

We want to unite all the comrades who want a revolutionary and democratic NPA. We put forward a platform with four points: full independence from the Front de Gauche (Left Front, FdG); the defence of a genuine transitional program with the perspective of our project of a socialist society; a turn towards an implantation in the workers’ movement and the prioritisation of struggles; and internationalism.



Sunday 13 May 2012
France - Interview
The Socialist Party’s victory in France

The future of the relationship with Germany, the rise of the xenophobic right wing, the policy of the reformist Front of the Left and the campaign of the "far left"




The Arab Springtime


Saturday 11 May 2013
Down with the Assad dictatorship
Israel and imperialism, out of Syria

In less than 48 hours, the State of Israel launched two rounds of aerial bombardments against military targets on the outskirts of Damascus...



Wednesday 12 December 2012
Egypt
“The people want the regime to fall”

The old slogan, that hundreds of thousands were shouting against the Mubarak dictatorship at the beginning of 2011, is again resounding with all its force in the streets of Cairo and the main cities of Egypt, this time directed against the government of M. Morsi and the Freedom and Justice Party...



Thursday 16 August 2012
Syria
Fighting continues; the political crisis increases

On August 8, after days of being bombed, the Saladin neighborhood, a stronghold of the rebels, suffered the full-scale offensive of the army that in the preceding days had concentrated 20,000 troops in the outskirts of Aleppo.




Cuba


Monday 5 November 2012
Cuba
Economic crisis, austerity for the workers & capitalist restoration

For years, the international economic crisis has been exerting pressure on the local economy, mainly through falling nickel prices (the country’s second-largest foreign-currency income), the increase in food prices (Cuba must import 80% of the food that it consumes, and this is the main expenditure in dollars that it has to make), and scarcity of credit. What has prevented the economy from collapsing, from 2008 until now, is the financing in various ways that Venezuela (the biggest economic partner since 2003) gives Cuba.



Tuesday 10 April 2012
The Pope´s visit
Cuba: "Close relationships" in order to advance in the restoration [of capitalism]

After his cynical and provocative passage through the Mexico of the murders of women and homophobia, Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the highest representative of the Catholic Church, a close ally of imperialism and the most reactionary and obscurantist institution on the planet, arrived in Cuba...



Monday 23 January 2012
Cuba 53 years after the Revolution
Step by step, the bureaucracy is dismantling the historic achievements

Official rhetoric insists that "53 years after the victory of the Revolution, Cuba is absorbed in modernizing its economic model, a process designed to guarantee the continuity and strengthening of the socialist system adopted by the Island"...




International capitalist crisis


Thursday 28 March 2013
Economic crisis
German imperialism has imposed humiliating conditions on Cyprus

Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with the IMF and the European Central Bank, has succeeded, under extreme circumstances, in imposing draconian and humiliating economic conditions on Cyprus.



Sunday 24 March 2013
World economy
A new phase in the crisis of the euro

The decision of the European Union (EU) and the Cypriot government to confiscate part of the deposits of small savers indicates a stepping up by the creditor countries to avoid, at all costs, the devaluation of the mountain of debt...



Wednesday 27 February 2013
Big convergence of the “tides”
Mass demonstrations against the attacks from Rajoy’s government

Doctors, teachers, firefighters, workers from the private sector, unemployed workers, and students, yelling “Against the coup d’état by the markets, we owe nothing, we’re not paying,” demonstrated in more that 80 Spanish cities, with the support of more than 300 organizations.






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