Chile: The Bosses break off talks

Thirty days ago workers at the port of Angamos, in Mejillones, in the north of the country, began a heroic strike for the recognition rights of temporary workers (“eventuales”), who are excluded by law from agreements between the employer and the union. Fifteen days ago, workers at the port of San Antonio, on Chile’s central […]

Internationalist tour: Christian Castillo’s talk in Germany

In October, 2013, the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) got 1,200,000 votes in the legislative elections in Argentina. Last Saturday, January 11, Christian Castillo, a national leader of the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS) and a Deputy of the FIT in the Province of Buenos Aires, went to a hall filled with an audience […]

Left and Workers’ Front MP rejects wage rise

January 23rd, 2014 Today, national MP for the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) Nicolás del Caño rejected the increase in salary that will see national MPs earning 50,000 pesos a month from February 1. “It’s a provocation,” he said. “Politicians earn ten times as much as any worker, while inflation has already reduced real wages […]

Christian Castillo’s internationalist tour through Europe

During the month of January, Christian Castillo will be visiting several countries of Europe to get to know at first-hand the situation of the workers’ movement and of the Left in one of the epicenters of the capitalist crisis. In addition, this political tour has as an aim disseminating the experience of the revolutionary Left […]

Chile: Dockworkers are once again on strike. Victory to the dockworkers!

From Mejillones to the country’s ports. From repression to the National Dockworkers’ Strike 12-23-2013 The strike of around 400 dockworkers belonging to the Union No. 2 of the Sindicato de Trabajadores Contratados y Eventuales Unidos (United Permanent and Temporary Workers’ Union), the local sector of the Unión Portuario (Portworkers’ Union) begins. The strike hits the […]

Workers’ Left Front MP to speak in London

From http://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/workers-left-front-mp-to-speak-in-london/ Dates: Monday January 6th at 7.30pm (Lambeth) and Tuesday 7th January 2014 at 7pm (central London) Christian Castillo, recently elected deputy for Buenos Aires Province, will be speaking on the recent election campaign, waged by the Workers’ and Left Front (FIT) on its policies and on the class struggle in Argentina. The FIT […]

An agreement between the United States and Iran: United by fear?

In the early hours of November 24, the agreement between Iran and the so-called “P5 + 1” group (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the United States, Great Britain, France, China and Russia, plus Germany) was announced in Geneva. According to the terms of this agreement, that was being secretly negotiated […]

Nicolás del Caño: “We reject the police mafia riots and blackmailing”

“We reject police mafia riots and blackmailing, which strengthens a completely corrupted system, and without whose consent or direct participation major crimes such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, car theft, and the use of poor youth to commit crimes, wouldn’t take place”, Nicolás del Caño, elected deputy for the Left and Workers’ Front, stated today […]

For the police, wage increase and impunity, for the workers, nothing

(Buenos Aires, 12-9-2013) Christian Castillo, for the Workers’ and Left Front (FIT) provincial deputy for Buenos Aires province, and national leader for the PTS, pointed out that “the police protests have opened a political crisis which is trying to be solved by giving all the demands that the forces of repression are claiming for. Different […]