The government of Evo Morales is responding to the third day of COB* strikes and blockades with repression and McCarthyist discourse.

More than 500 people attended the presentation of the book "Lenin: Selected Works"(Lenin, Obras Selectas), which took place at the Feria Internacional del libro in Buenos Aires.

The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s weak victory in Venezuela, Cartés’ success gives a certain encouragement to the political right wing of the Southern Cone.

On May Day, the Frente de Izquierda (FIT, the Left Front) will be organising public rallies in the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, and other places in the country to commemorate International Workers’ Day.

On April 21, the Left and Workers’ Front submitted a bill in the Neuquén provincial parliament proposing that no member of parliament or state official should earn more than a teacher with 20 years’ service.

On April 21 and 22, the election for the shop stewards committee at the Coca-Cola plant in Pompeya, Buenos Aires city, took place. The rank-and-file list, called Lista Marrón (Brown List) was backed by 43% of the workforce in a 93% turn out. The Lista Verde (Green List), backed by the union leadership, came second, and a split from the Green List came third. The plant has 609 workers and we spoke with two members of the newly elected shop stewards committee.

An unexpected and closed election result shook the country and has put the national situation in suspense. Nicolás Maduro hardly exceeded the candidate of the rightwing opposition...

The PRI government, headed by current president Enrique Peña Nieto, is pushing to impose, at all costs, an educational reform that seeks to advance the privatization of education.

A speech by Vincent Duse, a militant of the CGT in the Peugeot Mulhouse plant and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Current (in the NPA) of France

The PTS Congress, gathered in Buenos Aires, March 29 to April 2, passed two key resolutions...

The history of Argentina in the years of rule by the Kirchners could well be told through the social crimes that took place under their governments. Cromañon at the end of 2004, the Massacre at Once in February, last year, or those dead because of the storm, in Holy Week, exactly a year ago.

With the government priding itself that the only opposition to its policies was coming from the right, the first national workers’ strike against the Kirchner government took place on November 20th. The last general strike in Argentina was on December 13th, 2001, a week before the government of Fernando de la Rúa fell during the uprising.

Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS (Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas), made a statement after floods caused chaos in parts of Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province.

On March 24, there was a demonstration in Buenos Aires to mark the 37th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina. Like every year, the human rights umbrella organisation Encuentro Memoria, Verdad y Justicia (EMVJ) (Encounter Memory, Truth and Justice)– an umbrella group that brings together dozens of human rights organisations, trade unions, students’ organisations and left-wing parties – called to march to Plaza de Mayo Square.

Videos and Pictures: Demo on March 24. Left parties attacked by pro-government thugs.

The lawyer who questioned Bergoglio about the fate of the “disappeared” (during Argentina’s “dirty war”, 1976-1983)

The Conclave (a closed meeting, from the Latin for “with a key”) of 115 Cardinals, that has just voted for a new Pope, was much quicker than was estimated and, surprisingly, elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, from Argentina, from now on, Francis I.

After remaining in the streets for twelve intense days of struggle, the approximately 90,000 peasants that participated in the national strike of coffee growers, having the support of 340,000 truck drivers, hundreds of healthcare workers, customs officers, indigenous communities and students from the biggest universities of Colombia, ended their action, after the government of Juan Manuel Santos....

On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 5th, the vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced the death of President Hugo Chávez from the cancer that he had been diagnosed with in June 2011.

On Thursday, February 21, Juan Pablo Jiménez Garrido, President of Union Number 1 of the electrical engineering firm Azeta, and President of the Federation of Workers of Azeta, a subcontracting firm of Chilectra , was found murdered in his workplace, from a bullet in the head.

On the afternoon of January 31, we working men and women of Mexico dressed for mourning. Once again, the female and male Pemex workers have suffered the consequences of the negligence of the Pemex authorities.

With much sorrow and anger, we got the news that in the early morning this Sunday, January 27, around 245 young people died, and 110 were wounded, after a fire in a nightclub in the city of Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul.

From the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo, we greet the release of the 14 male and female prisoners from the North Prison and from Santa Maria Prison, as a first step in the struggle for their unconditional freedom.

In the context of the uncertainty created by the critical state of Chávez’ health, regional elections were held throughout the country, where new governors and legislative councils of each state were elected, elections that were marked by a high rate of abstention.

In view of the actions that happened in Bariloche, Rosario, and some areas of Greater Buenos Aires, where instances of looting supermarkets and other businesses occurred, the PTS charges, in the first place, that these acts are the result of the fact that, under the administrations of the Kirchners, a large part of the population, mainly young people, continues to live under conditions of extreme poverty, without work or working under the table and with precarious employment.

This past December 1 brought together thousands of women, young people and groups of the poor in the streets, to reject the presidential inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto and the PRI’s return to government.

With massive mobilizations and a strike that has already lasted for 12 weeks, the students of the Province of Québec (Canada) have been carrying out a very tough struggle against the neoliberal policies and the increase in university tuition that the Québec Premier Jean Charest wants to impose.

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...

The Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas expresses its most emphatic condemnation of the massacre of 34 mineworkers in South Africa, perpetrated by the police, in the context of a strike for an increase in wages that the workers had been carrying out since August 10 in the platinum mine belonging to the British multinational Lonmin, the third-largest platinum mining company in the world.

On Sunday, July 15, a few weeks after the election victory of Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt’s presidential elections...

The news of a horrendous murder of a woman that occurred in New Delhi, the capital of India, overshadowed the end of 2012.

On February 21, this year, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot carried out an action repudiating the Orthodox Church and recently re-elected President Vladimir Putin.

Last weekend, in Zengcheng district in Guangzhou, an industrial city of Guangdong province, thousands of migrant workers hit the streets, burning cop cars and confronting the anti-riot police.

The first teachers’ strike in 25 years in the city of Chicago began on September 10. More than 25,000 female and male teachers and school personnel went out to the street and maintained the strike for 9 days...

At press time for this edition, the African American Troy Davis was murdered by lethal injection in Jackson (Georgia) Penitentiary.

On May 1, Obama announced to the world that an elite commando group belonging to the US Navy SEALS had killed Osama bin Laden in a residence located in Pakistan.

Raúl Godoy is a Zanon worker, a leading member of the PTS and Provincial Deputy in Neuquén from the Workers’ Left Front (FIT) in Neuquén, Argentina. The FIT is composed by three Trotskyist parties, the Lista Marrón (a ceramist workers’ trade union list) and the Ceramist Workers and Employees’ trade union (SOECN) from Neuquén.

For a revolutionary constituent process.

For a working-class and socialist solution to the crisis

When the news item became known, in Brixton (a neighborhood in South London), in Glasgow (Scotland), and certainly in more than one miners’ town, many people went out to the street by way of celebration.

From November 14, for eight days, the State of Israel kept up a brutal campaign of daily attacks, through aerial and naval bombing, against the Gaza Strip, assassinating Ahmed Jaabari, one of the main leaders of Hamas

On November 14, the State of Israel set in motion Operation “Pillar of Defense,” murdered Ahmed Al-Jaabari, a senior Hamas military leader, at close range, and launched an aerial attack, which is still underway, on the Gaza Strip.

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.

The government of Evo Morales is responding to the third day of COB* strikes and blockades with repression and McCarthyist discourse.

More than 500 people attended the presentation of the book "Lenin: Selected Works"(Lenin, Obras Selectas), which took place at the Feria Internacional del libro in Buenos Aires.

The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s weak victory in Venezuela, Cartés’ success gives a certain encouragement to the political right wing of the Southern Cone.

The lawyer who questioned Bergoglio about the fate of the “disappeared” (during Argentina’s “dirty war”, 1976-1983)

Around three million industrial workers led a massive general strike on Wednesday, October 3, in this country of south-east Asia. In the biggest industrial parks of the country, activities remained totally paralyzed. Among the most affected firms is the state-owned oil company Pertamina.

Five years after the beginning of the capitalist crisis, an international scene marked by big upheavals, political crises and potentially explosive social situations is taking shape.