Cuba: “Close relationships” in order to advance in the restoration [of capitalism]

By Diego Dalai After his cynical and provocative passage through the Mexico of the murders of women and homophobia, protected by the state, Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the highest representative of the Catholic Church, a close ally of imperialism and the most reactionary and obscurantist institution on the planet, that is against the use of condoms, […]

Enough clerical obscurantism. Thousands in the streets to impose approval of the egalitarian marriage law

Christian Castillo of the PTS: “It is necessary to say, ‘Enough clerical obscurantism.’ Thousands in the streets to impose approval of the egalitarian marriage law” (PTS, 12 JUL 2010) Christian Castillo, a national leader of the PTS, pointed out that “the mobilization called for this Tuesday, July 13, by the church against the egalitarian marriage […]

Permanent Revolution and the War of Position: the theory of revolution in Gramsci and Trotsky

‘It is a well known fact that, in November 1917, as soon as Lenin and the majority of the party had switched to Trotsky’s conception, and sought to remove, not only the political administration, but also the industrial government, Zinoviev and Kamenev stuck to the party’s traditional stance; they wanted a revolutionary coalition government with […]

“Transitions to democracy”: an instrument of U.S. imperialism to counterweight the decline of its hegemony

The so-called “transitions to democracy” have been a key policy of US imperialism to prevent the upswing of proletarian revolution, as a way of offsetting the decline of its hegemony after its defeat in Vietnam. It encompasses a number of developments on the world arena since the mid- 1970s. The recent success of Mexico’s “negotiated […]

Mass and vanguard struggles in the decadence of “neo-liberalism”

The boom of neo-liberalism during the 1980s and the first years of 1990s was not a consequence of a natural economic evolution from postwar Keynesianism to the rule of the market, but rather it could settle down inflicting harsh defeats to the international working class movement and the semi-colonial peoples. The military interventions on behalf […]

Objective and subjective premises for socialist revolution on the eve of the XXI Century

Drafted by Christian Castillo, passed by the CC of the PTS on October 17, 1998. It has been nine months now since the PTS leadership issued a document titled “Strategic lessons and programmatic basis to advance in the rebuilding of the IV International” (dated January 27, 1998), which was then passed by the whole Trotskyist […]

Socialist and Anticapitalist Front of the left in Argentina

The elections of June 28 will take place in the context of a crisis of the global imperialist-capitalist crisis. The most serious one since the 1930’s. Never has it been clearer that capitalism has run out of steam. Imperialism, with Barack Obama at its head, alongside the capitalist governments, wants to make the workers pay […]

The war in the Balkans and the international situation

Introduction On March 24 this year NATO bombs and cruise missiles started to rain down the Yugoslav territory. The war would rage for almost three months. As it unfolded, the world witnessed the various acts of the drama: the devastation of Serbia from the air, Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing, the flood tide of Kosovar refugees, the […]

Polemic with the LIT and the Theoretical Legacy of Nahuel Moreno

This work is the systematization of a debate that began two years ago at the cadre school of the Workers Party for Socialism (PTS). It is important in that it has allowed us to homogeneously develop a critical vision of our own political-theoretical past: drawing both a clear line of demarcation between ourselves and the “Morenista” current of the Trotskyist movement that we have come from, and at the same time reclaiming what we think is the method and theory of Leon Trotsky.