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...
Since the beginning of the semester, the military police have been a daily presence in the University of Sao Paulo (USP).
USP | Fora a polícia da Universidade!
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...
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!
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.
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...
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
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!
This letter was delivered by hand to the leaderships of the Partido Obrero (PO) and Izquierda Socialista on Wednesday, February 15.
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

For a revolutionary constituent process.
For a working-class and socialist solution to the crisis
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.
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

On Thursday evening, it was difficult to recognise the Political Sciences building, this “venerable institution,” that trains the future managerial staff of the bourgeoisie.
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.
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
In less than 48 hours, the State of Israel launched two rounds of aerial bombardments against military targets on the outskirts of Damascus...
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...
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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...
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.
The Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International (TF-FI) consists of the
PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas/ Socialist Workers Party), from Argentina, the LTS-CC (Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Contracorriente/ Workers League for Socialism – Against the current), from México, the
LOR-CI (Liga Obrera Revolucionaria por la Cuarta Internacional/ Revolutionary Workers League - Fourth International), from Bolivia, LER-QI (Liga Estrategia Revolucionaria/ Revolutionary Strategy League - Fourth International), from Brazil, PTR-CcC (Partido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios/ Revolutionary Workers Party), from Chile, LTS (Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo/ Workers League for Socialism) from Venezuela, LRS (Liga de la Revolución Socialista/ Socialist Revolutionary League), from Costa Rica, CcC (Clase Contra Clase/ Class against Class), from the Spanish State, TF-FI supporters in Uruguay, RIO Group, supporting section in Germany and TF militants in the CCR/Plateforme Z du NPA (Nuveau Parti Anticapitaliste)/ Platform Z NPA (New Anticapitalist Party) from France.
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