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Mexican GM Workers Send Solidarity to Striking GM Workers

Mexican GM workers and Mexican students sent solidarity with the ongoing GM strike.

Left Voice

September 23, 2019

AMLO: Mexico’s Great Hope Celebrates Independence Day with Budget Cuts and Repression

On Monday, Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrated his first Independence Day as president of Mexico. AMLO promised an end to corruption and neoliberalism, awakening the hopes of millions of Mexicans. But he has mostly collaborated with Trump in stopping immigrants from Central America.

Óscar Fernández

September 21, 2019

National Strike After Death of Two Teachers in Argentina

Ten weeks ago, teachers in Chubut, in southern Argentina, began a strike because the government is refusing to pay them their salaries. On Tuesday, two workers who were returning from a protest were killed in a car accident. As a result of massive outrage, there is a national teachers strike today.

Ana Rivera

September 19, 2019

10 Things You Need to Know about the Fires in the Amazon

Who is behind the fires being set in the Amazon? What is happening to the people displaced because of deforestation? What consequences will this have for the environment? Here are the ten things you need to know about the fires currently consuming the Amazon basin.

Ana Rivera

September 14, 2019

September 11 in Chile: How Reformism Disarmed the Working Class in the Face of CIA-Backed Coup

50 years ago today, Chile's democratic socialist president Salvador Allende was toppled in a bloody coup. A military dictatorship, backed by U.S. imperialism, murdered thousands and introduced a crushing form of neoliberal economics. Allende's experience shows why reformism is doomed to failure.

Nathaniel Flakin

September 11, 2019

‘For Them, the Amazon Is for Capital Accumulation’

Left Voice interviewed Brazilian Marxist and environmentalist, Gilson Dantas on the recent fires in the Amazon and a socialist response.

Left Voice

September 9, 2019

Trotsky, Latin America, and U.S. Imperialism

Workers in the U.S. and Mexico need to unite against their common enemy. Leon Trotsky explained this in the 1930s, when he proposed that workers in the U.S. and Britain support the expropriation of imperialist oil companies in Mexico.

Pablo Oprinari

September 3, 2019

Argentina: Three Socialist Proposals to Confront the Crisis

In the primary elections in Argentina on August 11, the right-wing government of President Mauricio Macri suffered a crushing defeat. Now the country is facing an acute economic crisis. The revolutionary socialist left is proposing three urgent measures.

“They Don’t Protect Us, They Rape Us”: Mexico City Protests Against Police

Last week, thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico City to protest rapes committed by the police. The outrage against misogynist violence has been loud and clear, but city authorities do not want to hear it. Trigger warning: police violence, rape.

Joss Espinosa

August 27, 2019