US: A strike in the big fast food chains

August 1, 2013 On Monday, July 29, the workers of the big fast food chains went out on strike, to demand a wage increase and labor and union rights. It is young people with job uncertainty, fed up with earning hunger wages, way below the average. The strike was national and affected the restaurants of […]

The Left and Wokers’ Front

This new electoral challenge for the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) takes place at a time when the bosses’ parties are in fierce dispute with each other. The FIT, which is composed of the PTS, Partido Obrero and Izquierda Socialista, has gained political recognition since taking part in the 2011 elections.. Trotskyists have a strong […]

The return of the dangerous subject

Friday, July 19, 2013 In just eight months, the scene of the class struggle in South America has changed completely, with the intervention of the working class as one of the outstanding axes of the social process. Let’s take a look: Argentina. November 20, 2012. The call for the general strike by Hugo Moyano’s CGT, […]

The workers’ movement enters the political arena

In July, a wave of strikes and demonstrations rocked Chile, the original testing ground for neoliberal economic policies, and the new ‘progressive’ economic giant Brazil. Although the demonstrations were not enough to paralyse either country, they represented a “rehearsal” for a general strike and confirmed the entry of the powerful Latin American working class onto […]

All of Egypt is Tahrir

Tahrir Square erupts in celebration over the downfall of Mohamed Morsi MUCH OF the Western media portray the downfall of Morsi as the result of a military coup. But the immediate backdrop was the massive mobilizations on June 30. What’s the political significance of the military stepping in to push Morsi aside? BEFORE WE talk […]

Against the repression by Miguel Angel Mancera’s government

The Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (Workers for Socialism League – LTS), the Juventud Socialista Anticapitalista y Revolucionaria (Socialist Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Youth –JASyR), the Agrupación de Mujeres Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses Women’s Association) and fraternal organizations demand the immediate release of our members and all political prisoners arrested on June 10th. Around […]

Evo has selected the new enemy: The working class and the Workers Party

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 The working class, that has shown its strength in the streets, must bring its allies together to prepare the victory and found its own political instrument. The COB’s Days of May, that we analyze in the pages of this Palabra Obrera, changed the Bolivian political map. Evo Morales no longer has […]

Paraguay: The victory of the right-winger Cartés

By Eduardo Molina Wednesday, April 24, 2013 The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s weak victory in Venezuela, […]

Argentina: Kirchnerism begins to lose its grip on the workers’ movement

During November and December 2012, there was a series of demonstrations in Argentina which graphically expressed the loss of hegemony of the Kirchner government and the depth of its crisis of succession. There were several ‘cacerolazos’ – demonstrations in which kitchen pots and pans are banged together – similar to the one which had taken […]

Clarification, trial, and punishment for those responsible for the death of Juan Pablo Jiménez!

No to the murder of workers No confidence in the investigations of the government and its police: For a Workers’ Commission to investigate and punish those responsible On Thursday, February 21, Juan Pablo Jiménez Garrido, President of Union Number 1 of the electrical engineering firm Azeta, and President of the Federation of Workers of Azeta, […]