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Tuesday 7 May 2013
Argentina
New book. "Lenin: Selected Works"

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.



Tuesday 9 June 2009
Trotsky and soviet democracy
Trascending Liberal Democracy and Totalitarianism


Monday 8 June 2009
Theory
Trotsky and Gramsci: A posthumous dialogue


Monday 8 June 2009
Theory
Permanent Revolution and the War of Position: the theory of revolution in Gramsci and Trotsky


Tuesday 24 March 2009
The Great Depression of the twenty-first century
Estrategia Internacional No 25

We are a turning point in world history. We have to see the present downturn as being a crisis during the decline of capitalism.



Saturday 14 March 2009
Politics Strategy
Notes on the Capitalist Crisis Underway and the Rebuilding of the Fourth International
Estrategia Internacional No 25

Over the past few years, the Trotskyist Faction-Fourth International (FT-CI) has developed an increasing intervention into the countries where it operates and has insisted on defending Marxist theory




Members’ Forum


Wednesday 13 March 2013
Colombia
12 Days of an Historic Strike in Colombia

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....




International Politics


Monday 20 May 2013
Zanon: A factory without bosses
Raúl Godoy’s European Tour

A Workers’ response against closures and massive unemployment

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.



Friday 10 May 2013
VIDEO
Raúl Godoy’s European Tour






Friday 30 November 2012
Declaration of the Fracción Trotskista – Cuarta Internacional
They announce a "ceasefire" after eight days of Israeli bombing

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




Environment


Thursday 27 May 2010
The spill from the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico: BP, Halliburton and Obama’s administration are responsible!
An enviromental disaster

For the first ten days, the big media kept quiet about the facts. Now, when the spill has become the worst ecological crisis in history, the atrocity that capitalist businessmen and the United States political regime committed has begun to come out.




Policy


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



Thursday 16 May 2013
Bolivia
Evo carries out repression, but the miners and COB continue the strike and blockades

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



Thursday 18 April 2013
Argentina: 13th National Congress of the PTS
“Perspectives are opening up for revolutionaries inside the NPA and within the working class”

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




Arts and Culture


Thursday 27 October 2011
The Secret of Steve Jobs

The recent death of Steve Jobs has inundated the whole world’s media with praise for the new semi-deity of technologies whom, it is supposed, we must thank for all the products that many want to have, but few can afford.




Democratic Rights


Thursday 18 April 2013
Venezuela: In view of Maduro’s close victory
We must not allow imperialism to capitalize on the crisis of chavismo

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...



Thursday 18 April 2013
Mexico
Mexican Teachers Fight Continues

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.



Wednesday 3 April 2013
Argentina: Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS, made a statement after floods
Floods in Buenos Aires: 48 fatalities: ‘A new social crime against the people’

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.




History


Monday 26 May 2008
40 years
The French May 1968

Forty years have passed since the French May...



Friday 16 May 2008
60 years of occupation and genocide
The founding of the State of Israel



Woman


Thursday 17 January 2013
Enormous reaction to the rape of a young female student
Massive protests in India

Repercussions in Asia and throughout the world

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



Tuesday 9 March 2010
Argentina
MARCH 8 : INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY — May YOUR DAY not be like everyday!!

This March 8 is an opportunity to denounce the Kirchners’ capitalist friends or those who are behind the right-wing "Republicans" of the opposition; to denounce the cynicism of the Church, that hides rapists and pedophiles among its ranks; to denounce the parties of the regime that, if they agree on anything, it is to go on paying the foreign debt, keeping the brutal work conditions with miserable wages and not to advance one bit in the rights that we women are demanding.



Tuesday 9 March 2010
Women’s day
Pan y Rosas marched next to the women workers of the new "grassroots trade unionism" at Kraft

A united Mobilization at the Plaza de Mayo and a rally by Pan y Rosas at the Consulate of Chile in Buenos Aires




Workers Movement


Thursday 16 May 2013
Bolivia
Evo carries out repression, but the miners and COB continue the strike and blockades

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



Friday 10 May 2013
VIDEO
Raúl Godoy’s European Tour


Wednesday 1 May 2013
Argentina
No member of parliament or state official should earn more than a teacher!

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.




Economy


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...



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.




Theory


Tuesday 7 May 2013
Argentina
New book. "Lenin: Selected Works"

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.



Tuesday 9 June 2009
Trotsky and soviet democracy
Trascending Liberal Democracy and Totalitarianism


Monday 8 June 2009
Theory
Trotsky and Gramsci: A posthumous dialogue





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.

You can contact us by e-mail at: contacto@ft-ci.org