The crushing victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, in the Presidential elections on 1 July is a turning point. After decades of PRI (ruling party) tyranny, military and police violence, privatisation of strategic sectors of the economy and reactionary labour and education reforms, millions of workers, youth, indigenous people...

Now build a Left alternative to defeat cuts and repression

It is over. The fall of Rajoy following a no confidence motion led by Pedro Sanchez, reflects above all, the depth of the crisis of the Spanish capitalist “regime of 1978”. It is a direct result of the massive social discontent throughout the...

General strike of metal sector in Cadiz on 13 June. Interview with strike leader, Antonio Muñoz

On 18 May, 2 workers, Joe Daniel and Jose Luis, 31 and 46 years old respectively, were killed at work in the bay of Cadiz (a major hub of the metal industry in southern Spain). They both worked for EQUIMANSUR (EQM),...

Neither the capitalists nor bureaucracy can solve the crisis! Build a revolutionary Left which defends the interests of the workers and poor!

On 20 May there were Presidential elections in Venezuela. According to final results, Maduro won with 6.2 million votes, ahead of Henri Falcon (a general and ex...

Steps forward in building the forces of Marxism

The political conference of Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in the Spanish state) on 5 & 6 May took place 200 years after the birth of Karl Marx and 50 years after May 68, in the midst of a great social rebellion against the sentence given to the...

On the 21st of February the whole of Argentina took to the streets. In Buenos Aires there were half a million demonstrators; among them were many workers, including sugar production workers from   the Jujuy and Salta provinces who are engaged in a struggle against job losses and plant closures that has been going on for over a...

All political and economic power to the workers and the people! Electoral defeats of the right and increase in dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy

The earthquake catastrophe reveals the reality of Mexican society. On one side, the incapacity of the state, and, on the other side, the greed of the capitalists, who are more worried about their profits that in using their wealth to attend to those caught up in the catastrophe.

Mass protests confront Macri government

On December 15, a huge social mobilization put the government coalition of Mauricio Macri on the ropes. When the Congress of Deputies had to approve the pension counter-reform, the President of the chamber had no choice but to adjourn the plenary session and suspend...