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...
After the Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) government’s attempt to legitimise its electoral fraud failed spectacularly, the popular rebellion has expanded in Honduras.
One of the most dramatic episodes of class struggle in Central America for years is currently unfolding in Honduras. Since 2009, when the people went on to the streets en masse to repudiate the coup carried out against then-President Zelaya, we have not seen such a level of mobilisation and confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the workers,...
Only the working class taking power from capitalists and bureaucrats can defeat reaction
On 30 July elections were held to elect members of the “National Constituent Assembly” (ANC). In the days prior to the election, US imperialism and the MUD (the coalition which unites the right and far-right in Venezuela) backed a campaign of...
Combat the counter-revolution with socialist, not capitalist policies
On 1 May, President Nicolas Maduro announced the calling of a Constituent Assembly, “to achieve peace the Republic needs…. to defeat the fascist coup… so that it will be the people and their sovereignty which impose peace, harmony...
Towards a general strike against the Nieto government!
Peña Nieto’s “gasolinazo” attack has been applied as of 1 January. The price hikes range from 14,2% for basic petrol to 20/1% for “premium” petrol, depending on the part of the country in question. This is part of the so-called...
