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, […]

Repression is not making us surrender

By: PTR–CcC (Partido de los Trabajadores Revolucionarios – Clase contra Clase), from Chile Thursday, August 16, 2012 With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from the Interior Ministry. More than 70 students arrested and prosecuted while, hours before, student-occupied high […]

For a revolutionary policy, independent of reformism, that prioritises struggles

Platform E, put forward by comrades who voted for P4 or P2 in the last congress Introduction The National Conference should allow the NPA to begin emerging from its crisis. Let’s put an end to the laming compromises, the ambiguous formulas and the agreements at the top! Many comrades are appalled by these methods and […]

The student movement retakes the streets

By Fabián Puelma, Law student at the University of Chile and student leader of the PTR More than 100,000 students mobilized nationally on April 25. Only a few days after the announcement by Piñera’s government of some reforms that do not aim at the central demand of the movement, which is free education, the student […]

Stop the repression and murder. Solidarity with the workers, youth and the Egyptian people in struggle

On Friday 18/11, tens of thousands of people returned to Tahir Square. Once more the iconic square it is filled with young people who are fighting against the attempt of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to reserve for itself the right to review any article of the new Constitution that – according […]

Strike in Oakland: unity between young people and workers

By Barbara Funes Occupy Oakland called a general strike as a means of protest for November 3. The strike was carried out, and it had partial observance among dockworkers, nurses, and teachers. According to the bourgeois press, of the 325 unionized stevedores, without an official strike call from the union, 40 stopped work; around 300 […]

Three months of students’ struggle.

By: PTS, Argentina Thursday, August 25, 2011 At press time for this edition, the first day of the national 48-hour strike called by the Chilean Trade Union Congress (CUT) was reaching its climax. After the massive day of struggle, Sunday, August 21, the first day of blockades, barricades and marches has joined the enormous student […]

RIO joins The Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International (FT-CI) as sympathizing sections

After more than one and a half years of discussions with the FT-CI, RIO is joining as sympathizing sections in Germany and the Czech Republic La Verdad Obrera (newspaper of the PTS, Argentinian section of the FT-CI), interviewed Wladek Flakin and Stefan Schneider about this advancement in the relationship to the FT. LVO: How did […]

How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world

From Athens to Cairo and Spain to Santiago, old certainties are being challenged after the Arab spring and financial crises • •Jack Shenker •guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 August 2011 18.12 BST • larger | smaller •Article history Protests against austerity measures in Athens were just some of the examples of youth-led protest in the first half […]