The Power of the Oaxaca Commune

As this edition was closing, the failure of negotiations between the Interior Secretariat [Secretaría de Gobernación] and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, APPO, was announced. At the same time, threats of repression, with direct intervention by the [militarized] Federal Preventive Police [PFP] are growing. As the power of the APPO grows, the […]

Mexico: The Commune of Oaxaca

While the mass media are only talking about the proclamation of Felipe Calderón (PAN) as the new President, in southern Mexico an intense mobilization is developing in the city of Oaxaca. After the brutal repression on June 14 against the strike of the Oaxaca teachers, the struggle grew massively, by uniting the workers and the […]

Mass strike prevents layoffs

By Isabel Infanta, Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional [Edited] In the industrial heart of Brazil, the “ABC paulista”*, metallurgical workers in the Volkswagen (VW) Anchieta factory, the biggest producer of cars in Brazil, are confronting a harsh restructuring plan by the bosses, who seek to fire 3,600 of the 12,400 workers and eliminate workers’ rights, to improve […]

UN troops out of LEBANON!

Last week, one of the central aspects of UN Resolution 1701, referring to sending troops to a “security zone” in southern Lebanon, began to be implemented. The resolution, promoted by France and the US and custom-made for the Zionist state, seeks to create a force to cover Israel’s back, after its military defeat. The new […]

Transform the resistance into a broad struggle for national and social liberation

As the Israeli air force, armed by US imperialism, bombs the villages of southern Lebanon, destroys the infrastructure, and murders civilians – mostly children, the elderly, and disabled people – the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora “regrets” that the “international community” won’t intervene to stop the offensive, and hopes that the principal sponsor of Israel, […]

What the transfer of power in Cuba means

Unexpectedly, after his participation in the MERCOSUR Summit in Córdoba and in the commemoration ceremonies of July 26 in Cuba, on August 1, it was announced that Fidel Castro was delegating power to his brother Raúl, because of an urgent operation that he had to undergo. The news quickly went around the world and became […]

The “integration” that Chávez promotes and his double talk

If [Argentinean President] Kirchner sought to appear next to [Brazilian President] Lula [at the MERCOSUR Summit] as an expression of “progressive possibilities” . . . Chávez spoke differently depending on who he might be talking to. While in the ceremony together with Fidel Castro in the Ciudad Universitaria in Córdoba [Argentina], he [Chávez] said again, […]

The MERCOSUR Meeting and Latin American “Integration”

The Meeting of the Common Market Council and Summit of Chiefs of State of MERCOSUR and associated countries will take place with a big security deployment, including 4,000 provincial and federal police, while La Verdad Obrera is being published, in Córdoba [Argentina]. Presidents Kirchner, Lula, Nicanor Duarte, Tabaré Vázquez, Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Michelle Bachlelet […]

Israeli attack on Lebanon

During the early morning of Thursday, July 13, Israeli planes attacked Beirut airport, in Lebanon. This new attack is part of the response promised by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, to the actions of Hezbollah (Lebanese Shiites), where 8 Israeli soldiers died and two others were captured, as a demand for the release of prisoners in […]