Argentina: National Conference of Fighting Unions

National Conference of Fighting Unions A massive “National Conference of Fighting Unions and workers” demands a general strike and calls for a day of protest, pickets and roadblocks. The rank and file delegate from Buenos Aires Subways, Claudio Dellecarboara, began the National Conference of Fighting Unions in front of 4 thousand workers that filled the […]

Motion of International Solidarity with the workers of Panrico (Spain)

More than 4,000 workers from all over the country attended the National Conference of Fighting Trade Unions held on March 15th in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Delegates passed a resolution expressing their solidarity with the workers of the Panrico Factory in Spain, who have been in strike for more than four months. Prior to the conference, […]

Argentine: Towards a National Conference of Fighting Unions

Argentine: Towards a National Conference of Fighting Unions. MARCH 03 2014 The Kraft factory shop steward committee, led by Javier Hermosilla and Lorena Gentile, Raúl Godoy, ex deputy for Neuquén province and a Zanon worker, José Montes, trade union representative from Astillero Río Santiago, the Alicorp (ex Jabón Federal) shop steward committee, represented by Franco […]

Venezuela: New right-wing marches and harsh confrontations

Venezuela: New right-wing marches and harsh confrontations March 13, 2014 The political situation has again had its rough days this March 12, with a toll of three dead after the street disturbances in different cities of the country, but principally in Caracas, after the political situation made a political leap a month ago, and a […]

MP Del Caño replies to President Cristina Kirchner’s attack against the PTS

MP Del Caño replies to President Cristina Kirchner’s attack against the PTS March 1ST 2014 On February 27, during the national day of protests for the acquittal of the Las Heras oil workers, the Security Secretary Sergio Berni oversaw the attacks of the security forces against the pickets and roadblocks. The PTS played a major […]

Striking Coca-Cola women speak out

This is an amended version of the translation of the article by Josefina Martínez published in Periódico Diagonal Translated to English and published by libcom.org Striking Coca-Cola women speak out Twelve women in red ‘Anti-Coke’ T-shirts at the gates of the factory On Saturday March 1st we met with 12 Coca-Cola workers. In this group […]

No to the sacking and black banning of the dockworkers of Union Nº2 of Mejillones

No to the sacking and black banning of the dockworkers of Union Nº2 of Mejillones March 9, 2014 After the dockworkers’ strike, the attacks from the stevedoring bosses of Ultraport (owned by the Von Appen family) in Mejillones have not ceased. This time they are attacking the workers’ organization and their union, Sindicato Número 2 […]

For a broad campaign against the anti-union attacks of Ultraport Angamos in Mejillones

For a broad campaign against the anti-union attacks of Ultraport Angamos in Mejillones March 7, 2014 After the Chilean dockworkers’ strike and mobilisations of last December and January, employers are now refusing to recognise the government-brokered agreement that ended the strike. Bosses are now refusing to pay dockworkers the previously agreed to one-off payment for […]

Ukraine: The dispute between Russia and the imperialist powers

Ukraine: The dispute between Russia and the imperialist powers March 6, 2014 In the last week, Ukraine has turned into a battlefield for what many analysts are already calling a “new cold war” between the United States (and the European Union), on the one hand, and Russia, on the other, where there are big economic […]