Brazil: For a strong campaign against the layoffs in the São Paulo subway

Brazil For a strong campaign against the layoffs in the São Paulo subway After the end of the five-day strike of the São Paulo subway workers, from La Verdad Obrera we interviewed Marília Rocha, an activist of the great strike and a militant of the LER-QI (a fraternal group of the PTS) and one the […]

Immigrants resist Obama’s massive deportations

Immigrants resist Obama’s massive deportations Demonstrations in 40 cities across the U.S. took place this past April 5th against the massive deportations of immigrants. These demonstrations take place within the context of isolated but ongoing struggles throughout the country. Hunger strikes and actions of civil disobedience against deportations have becoming increasingly frequent. Although still lacking […]

They are preparing a reactionary solution to the crisis in Venezuela

With the mediation of UNASUR, there is an advancement in agreements and negotiations with the right wing They are preparing a reactionary solution to the crisis in Venezuela The conversations and agreements with the big business groups by Maduro’s government are accelerating in the country. The government has been giving in on everything they are […]

Chile: Dockworkers are once again on strike. Victory to the dockworkers!

From Mejillones to the country’s ports. From repression to the National Dockworkers’ Strike 12-23-2013 The strike of around 400 dockworkers belonging to the Union No. 2 of the Sindicato de Trabajadores Contratados y Eventuales Unidos (United Permanent and Temporary Workers’ Union), the local sector of the Unión Portuario (Portworkers’ Union) begins. The strike hits the […]

Victory of the Left in Seattle

The elections in several states that took place in the US at the beginning of November expressed what several media described as a “turn to the left” in the center of US politics. The crisis of the two-party system, expressed in the breaks inside the Republican Party and the weakening of its right wing, the […]

A last-minute agreement to buy time

A scene that is beginning to be repeated: During a countdown, on the verge of taking the US to a default, because of reaching the legally allowed upper limit of issuing debt, Democrats and Republicans arrive at a precarious agreement that kicks the discussion on the debt ceiling up to February 7. Yesterday, hours before […]

Political election manifesto of the Left and Workers’ Front

The 2013 legislative elections are taking place in the context of tendencies towards a crisis as a whole, in the framework of the end of the cycle of rule by the Kirchners, set up to divert the 2001 popular rebellion. On the economic plane, tendencies towards a new debt crisis are being exhibited, after having […]

Intellectuals, ideas and the crisis

By: Gastón Gutiérrez, IPS Karl Marx Thursday, August 22, 2013 We interviewed Emmanuel Barot, a philosopher of the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail, and a militant of the CCR (Revolutionary Communist Tendency) of the NPA of France, during his stay in Buenos Aires for the Conference of the Fracción Trotskista – Cuarta Internacional. […]

For a Movement for a Revolutionary Socialist International – The Fourth International

This manifesto was approved by the Eighth International Conference of the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International, in August 2013 in Buenos Aires. Manifesto in PDF format

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 […]