Outrage swells in Baltimore’s streets following death of Freddie Gray

While demonstrations have been peaceful, the protestors’ outrage is palpable, shown by the growing number of participants—swelling at times to the thousands—and unrelenting protests held every day and night since Freddie Gray’s death was announced on April 19th. Meanwhile, the police’s attempts to break up the protests have led to some minor scuffles, during which […]

The Panama Summit has come to an end: a new “American Dialogue” has begun

VII SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS The Panama Summit has come to an end: a new “American Dialogue” has begun The New York Times, that, for some time, has been writing editorials for a new policy towards Cuba, gave the title, “Obama welcomes Raúl Castro, making history,” while Granma was announcing, “VII Summit of the Americas, […]

Powerful international campaign demands “Don’t send Gaëtan to prison”

On Wednesday, April 1, the French justice system sentenced Gaëtan, an art history student from Toulouse, France and member of the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA – New Anticapitalist Party), to two months in prison with a further four month suspended sentence and an 1100 Euro fine, for taking part in a demonstration called to denounce […]

What Can We Expect from Podemos in Spain?

A political outsider takes center stage Outside of Syriza in Greece, there is perhaps no European political party in recent years that has experienced a rise in popularity quite as rapid as that of Podemos in Spain. Like Syriza, Podemos was born out of the widespread discontent with the social democratic, liberal, and conservative parties […]

Brazil: We, the workers must participate in the April 15 strike

We workers must participate in the April 15 strike, by getting organized from the grassroots, so that it will be an effective national strike, as part of a plan of struggle that will have continuity with actions, mobilizations, work stoppages, and national strikes, to defeat the precarization law and the decrees of the government and […]

Argentina: the Left and Workers’ Front comes in third place in governor’s race, the left alternative grows

The Left and Workers’ Front came in third place in Mendoza, the fifth electoral district of the country. On Sunday night after primaries elections, governor candidate Noelia Barbeito for the Left and Workers’ Front announced they had got near 7 percent of the vote. After the primary election last Sunday, Barbeito became the only candidate […]

What the agreement between the US and Iran means

On April 2, the G5+1 (the Western powers plus Russia and China), led by the United States, arrived at a preliminary agreement with Iran on the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic, that it will have to bring to an end in June of this year. This is a big step for the strategy of […]

Don’t send Gaëtan and other activists to prison for demonstrating!

On April 1, 2015, the court issued the verdict of the appeal against the conviction of Gaëtan, a trade union activist of the student movement Solidaires étudiant-e-s and a member of the NPA in Toulouse, France. In December 2014, Gaëtan had been given a suspended two-month prison sentence, and ordered to pay a fine of […]

Mexico: The counter-attack of a barbaric regime

The crisis of the Mexican regime, caused by mass response to the kidnapping and assassination of the Normalistas in Ayotzinapa by the state police, has seen an important change in positions with the Government now moving to the offensive.