The impotence of ‘progressivism’

The emergence of the government’s new Alliance with Menem’s former Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, at his core, could be the last attempt at saving what is left of the régime of domination established in 1983, caught between the capitalist crisis and the workers’ and people’s struggles. But this very act of ‘salvation’ inaugurated a […]

Manifesto to the Nation of workers, peasants and poor peoples

Thousands of issues of this Manifesto were circulated by the Bolivian section of the Fracción Trotskista-LORCI- during the peasant and workers’ revolts back in April Forward with the Political General Strike and the road blockades! After the great events of April and September of 2000; the bourgeoisie has come out badly wounded. The ruling régime […]

Empire or Imperialism? A debate with Giovanni Arrighi’s “Long Twentieth Century”

The changes within world capitalism in the last thirty years since the end of the postwar boom have brought a significant theoretical discussion about both their scope and characteristics, and also their consequences for the prospects outlined by revolutionary Marxism. Thus, in the view of many contemporary thinkers, the globalisation of capitalist production and the […]

Communism without transition?

As long as imperialist capitalism outlives itself, the contradiction between the potential of the productive forces and the destitution imposed on the masses by the rule of the capitalist relationships of production becomes more and more flagrant. One of Marx’s tenets was to point out that this contradictions could not be worked out unless the […]

“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 […]

The trick of the “Latin American third way”

After a decade of neoliberal governments enforcing pro-imperialist plans on the whole of Latin America, various political developments are signalling their end. New forces are seeking to replace them. The electoral rise of the Frente Amplio (Big Front) in Uruguay, Chavez’s ‘constituent process’ in Venezuela, ‘socialist’ Lagos’ presidential candidacy in Chile, the Alliance’s electoral triumph […]

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 […]

MARCH TOGETHER THIS MAY 1ST

This May 1st workers and leftist organizations, together, will march to the Plaza de Mayo in an act that declaring that the capitalist pay for the crisis as well as confront the national scene of the dominating class and their political parties who are having the lead over us. The UIA industries have proposed the […]