The crisis and the wars brought Obama’s election victory

On November 4, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, with the significance of being the first African American to achieve that. The Democratic candidate attained an ample victory (bigger in the difference of electors than in the percentage of the popular vote) over the Republican McCain-Palin ticket, and his party obtained a […]

The US economy, closer to the abyss

Orginally published October 2, 2008 At press time, the US Senate was voting in favor, by 74 votes to 25, of the so-called Paulson Plan, which uses a sum of $700 billion dollars to rescue the banking system. This approval by the Senate attempts to respond to the political crisis begun on September 29, when […]

The US on the verge of the crash

Originally published on September 18, 2008 Maybe the rescue will be successful, it cannot be ruled out. The US authorities and the central banks of the whole world are doing the impossible, although they are dragged down by events. But never since the crisis of 1929 has the US economy been so close to the […]

The French May 1968

Forty years have passed since the French May, and visions that present the events merely as a “student revolt” or a “cultural rebellion” are multiplying. Daniel Cohn-Bendit himself, a student leader of those days, in his capacity as a Deputy of the European Parliament now maintains that “the revolt had as its aim confronting the […]

First National Conference of the JIR-FT

The Juventud de Izquierda Revolucionaria, – Fracción Trotskista (JIR-FT) will hold its First National Conference by the end of May. After recent years in the fight to develop a revolutionary workers’ and socialist tendency, the Juventud de Izquierda Revoluionaria is entering a new phase of construction. Alongside workers from different factories of the country, like […]

After five years of war

The neo-conservative disaster of the occupation of Iraq March 20 this year marked five years since the beginning of the war and occupation of Iraq. US President George Bush recalled this anniversary with a speech in front of military personnel, in which he stated that this was a “noble, necessary and just war” and emphasized […]

The murder of Bhutto weakens a key US ally

The news of the murder of Benazir Bhutto last December 27 was spread like a trail of gunpowder in the country, almost more rapidly than the first communiqués from international press agencies. When the fatal shots at the former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, who was favored in the elections scheduled […]

We call for casting an invalid vote in 12/2 Referendum

WE MUST FORGE AN INDEPENDENT WORKERS’ POLITICS IN VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM WE CALL FOR CASTING AN INVALID VOTE IN THE DECEMBER 2 REFERENDUM POLITICAL DECLARATION As shown by the clashes between students from the right-wing opposition and chavista students, that left several wounded by bullets, and the recent death of the worker sympathizer […]

Unprecedented engineers’ strike

The engineers’ [train drivers] strike organized by the GDL union represents something completely new for Germany, one of the most stable European countries, and with absolutely the least hours on strike. The demands of the engineers are a 31% wage increase, reduction in the weekly work schedule and their own contract. This strike takes place […]

New attacks against the immigrants

In a context of uneasiness maintained with the foreign policy of George W. Bush’s government and increasing worries because of the fall of the real estate market and the financial crisis, millions of immigrants in the US live and work in a virtual state of siege with the threat of arrest and deportation over their […]