June 9: Argentina’s workers to strike
Although the union leaders are preparing a passive strike, the left and the combative workers have proposed assemblies and road blocks to ensure a successful strike. They are also demanding the ceiling on salary increases set by the government be raised.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
June 8, 2015“Permanent Revolution” : A New Leftist News and Opinion Site Is Launched
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Révolution Permanente
June 7, 2015
Teachers Burn Electoral Material
Today in Oaxaca city, teachers from section 22 of the National Syndicate of Education Workers, organized within the National Coordinator of Educational Workers, a dissenting sector of the union, took over a bus to go pay the electoral booths a "visit".
La Izquierda Diario Mexico
June 7, 2015
Heavy repression before the elections in Guerrero, there is currently a tense calm in the city
The police and military forces that entered Guerrero yesterday, continue their intimidatory actions, police check points, and the oversight of the voting polls in Chilpancingo and other main cities of the State. In Tixtla, around 300 protesters, among them the parents of the 43 students disappeared, continue the protests.
La Izquierda Diario Mexico
June 7, 2015
Militarized elections
A few hours before the opening of the election polls, a large number of troops from the navy, army, national guard, federal, state and municipal police as well as “thugs” and para-military groups were sent into Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas to secure the elections.
Andres Aullet
June 7, 2015
Oaxaca: Thousands of troops sent to impose “order and peace” before elections
Thousands of police and army troops arrived last night and early this morning in Oaxaca. Their goal is to attempt to stop social protests and guarantee the elections happening this Sunday.
La Izquierda Diario Mexico
June 6, 2015
The US removes Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism
The US President, Barack Obama, had announced on April 14 that he would take Cuba off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. A 45-day process of review, that ended this Friday, with a formal announcement from the State Department.
Juan Andrés Gallardo
June 6, 2015
Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate Across Argentina Against Femicides
#NiUnaMenos was a massive demonstration, one of the largest in the few last years. Thousands of people marched in 80 cities across Argentina. Workers, students, and youth joined to demand ¡Ni una menos! (Not one more murdered woman). Uruguay, Chile, and Mexico joined the protests.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
June 4, 2015
Clashes between students and federal police in Tixtla, Guerrero
In the midst of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers’ (Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, CNTE) call for a national strike, students from the Federation of Socialist Agricultural Students of Mexico (Federación de Estudiantes Campesinos y Socialistas de México, FECSUM) blocked the highway in Tixtla, Guerrero.
La Izquierda Diario Mexico
June 4, 2015