INTERNATIONAL
The African National Congress government massacres 34 workers in South Africa
By PTS, Argentina Saturday, August 18, 2012 The Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas expresses its most emphatic condemnation of the massacre of 34 mineworkers in South Africa, perpetrated by the police, in the context of a strike for an increase in wages that the workers had been carrying out since August 10 in the platinum mine […]
Left Voice
August 20, 2012The right wing gets an adjusted election victory
By a narrow margin – of 29.9% to 27.1% – the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party won the June 17 elections, leaving Syriza in second place. Despite this negligible difference, because of the completely anti-democratic Greek system that guarantees control by the traditional parties of the regime, ND received a “bonus” of 50 deputies (that […]
Claudia Cinatti
July 4, 2012Revolutionaries and the Question of the “Government of the Left”
The May 6 elections showed that the great majority of the Greek people are repudiating the brutal adjustment from the “Troika” (the European Union [EU], the IMF and the European Central Bank), implemented by the main parties of the bourgeoisie: New Democracy and PASOK. The collapse of the traditional parties was mainly capitalized on by […]
Claudia Cinatti
June 17, 2012SYRIZA and the Position of Revolutionaries
The unprecedented results of the Greek elections in May 2012 that gave SYRIZA the possibility of forming a government led by Alexis Tsipras bring to light once more the debate around the position of revolutionaries regarding the political forces to the “left of the left”. This is even more important taking into account that SYRIZA is softening its discourse.
Philippe Alcoy
June 16, 2012Down with Assad’s Brutal Repression! No to Imperialist Interference and Intervention!
The massacre of approximately 116 civilians in Houla, near the opposition-held city of Homs, is one of the bloodiest acts since the uprising against Assad's regime began, 14 months ago. As on other occasions, the government admits the slaughter, but it is trying to hold “Al Qaeda terrorists” responsible for what happened. However, the regime has not offered any serious evidence that would support its version or refute the accounts of the massacre by survivors.
Claudia Cinatti
June 8, 2012A specter is threatening Europe
The Nobel Laureate in Economics and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicted the “Greek euro exit, very possibly next month.” If this prediction comes true, both Krugman and the publications Financial Times and Der Spiegel maintain that the panic would spread to the rest of the eurozone and that the next step would be […]
Paula Bach
May 17, 2012The Socialist Party’s victory in France
The future of the relationship with Germany, the rise of the xenophobic right wing, the policy of the reformist Front of the Left and the campaign of the "far left"
Juan Chingo
May 10, 2012After the Port Said Incidents, the Political Crisis is Beginning Again
The violent incidents in Port Said after a soccer match were not another clash between supporters of two rival clubs, but something emerging from an unstable situation filled with profound social and political contradictions.
Claudia Cinatti
February 6, 2012Act Two of the Revolutionary Process
The brutal police repression against a small group of demonstrators in Tahrir Square on November 19 was the detonator of an impressive popular mobilization that was increasing in numbers and radicalization as time passed. The policy of the governing Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), of trying to stop this new wave of demonstrations […]
Claudia Cinatti
November 29, 2011Why does the far left refuse to propose “the Socialist United States of Europe?”
In the middle of the historic crisis of capitalism at an international level, the different European bourgeoisies have led Europe to a new dead end. The bourgeois states are totally powerless, seeking to save themselves by themselves alone, and some, to the detriment of others. Their choices of a solution can only worsen the crisis, […]
Juan Chingo
November 4, 2011