Latin America
‘You Have to Change Things from the Root’: Interview With a Young Immigrant
Left Voice interviewed a 23-year-old immigrant, factory worker, and student, who told us about his experience crossing the border from Mexico to the U.S. and about the life of Latin American youth in the United States.
Left Voice
April 5, 202448 Years After the Military Coup, Tens of Thousands in Argentina Take to the Streets Against Denialism and the Far Right
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on March 24 to demand justice for the victims of the state and the military dictatorship of 1976. This year, the annual march had renewed significance, defying the far-right government’s denialism and attacks against the working class and poor.
Madeleine Freeman
March 25, 2024Declaration: End Imperialist Intervention in Haiti, Solidarity with the Haitian People
The “Multinational Security Support Mission” announced by the United States marks a new imperialist-colonial intervention in Haiti by the United States, the UN, and their allies.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
March 17, 2024The Fight against Javier Milei Has Set The Stage For a Whole New Wave of Struggle
The defeat of the Omnibus Law is a key victory for the movement against Javier Milei’s austerity plan and attacks on democratic rights. It shows that the working class and oppressed have the power to fight against the advance of the Far Right in Argentina and across the world.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
February 9, 2024Defying Repression: Socialist Electeds in Argentina Show Us What Revolutionary Parliamentarism Looks Like
Workers in Argentina are defying police repression and fighting back against the far-right government’s shock therapy. Trotskyist members of congress are not just protesting inside the chamber — they are on the front lines of the demonstrations, getting pepper sprayed and shot with rubber bullets.
Nathaniel Flakin
February 9, 2024Crisis for Javier Milei as Austerity Bill Is Defeated
After a national strike and days of mobilizations, the movement in the streets has defeated far-right president Javier Milei’s anti-worker Omnibus Bill.
Otto Fors
February 7, 2024“Internationalism is About What We’re Doing Here”: Speech Outside the Argentinian Consulate in NYC
Left Voice member Luigi Morris highlights the rise of the Far Right in Argentina, its connection to Zionism and U.S. imperialism, the role of Peronism in creating space for the Right, and how the revolutionary Left is fighting back.
Luigi Morris
February 1, 2024“What Happened to the Nazis is What’s Gonna Happen to You”: Argentina’s Left and Workers Are Showing Us How to Fight the Far Right
As Argentina’s Congress debates an anti-worker omnibus bill put forward by the far-right president, leftist organizations and workers resisted police repression outside the National Congress building. We’re watching in real time how a revolutionary Left can fight the Far Right and a complicit center-left.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 31, 2024General Strike: Argentina Rises Up Against Milei’s Shock Therapy
More than 1.5 million workers walked off the job today in a massive general strike in Argentina against President Javier Milei. But more strikes and demonstrations are needed to defeat his brutal and authoritarian neoliberal reform program.
James Dennis Hoff
January 24, 2024“The Working Class Must Take This Strike into Their Own Hands”: Two Socialist Congressmembers on the General Strike in Argentina
Thousands will take the streets across Argentina in a national strike against far-right president Javier Milei’s attacks and austerity plans. Myriam Bregman and Christian Castillo, two leaders of the Party of Socialist Workers (PTS) and members of Congress discuss what’s at stake and the challenges ahead for the fight against the Far Right.
Myriam Bregman
January 24, 2024