All of Egypt is Tahrir

Tahrir Square erupts in celebration over the downfall of Mohamed Morsi MUCH OF the Western media portray the downfall of Morsi as the result of a military coup. But the immediate backdrop was the massive mobilizations on June 30. What’s the political significance of the military stepping in to push Morsi aside? BEFORE WE talk […]

How to Thwart Democracy? In Egypt the Military is Supreme

by ESAM AL-AMIN The Generals have done it again! Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, was deposed one year after being democratically elected by the Egyptian people. For those opposed to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the move by the military is seen as supporting a popular uprising and a belated effort to revive or restore […]

Egypt: The army is trying to hijack the mass protests

July 4, 2013 Powerful mass demonstrations sealed the destiny of the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi who was toppled on July 3 by the army in a ‘soft coup’ supported by the wide spectrum of opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood government. The chairman of the Supreme Constitutional Court is the acting president for an unspecified transitional […]

Deceiving “the streets” in order to usurp the will of the people

Friday, July 5, 2013 In recent days, the spectacular movement of the masses, that took to the streets of the country, showed its strength, by forcing the government to respond to some of its demands. The first of them was the reduction of the price increase of the public transit fare in several cities. Furthermore, […]

São Paulo: A class-conscious policy is needed to give voice to the rejection of the political caste

By LER-QI, Brazil Sunday, June 23, 2013 On June 20, the demonstrations that have taken the country by storm, made a jump, bringing around 1 million people to the streets. In different cities, like in Rio de Janeiro and in Brasilia, the people’s anger was expressed, because of the dreadful living conditions, and against the […]

The stage of post-chavismo begun under Maduro’s government and the challenges of the working class

By LTS of Venezuela Friday, June 28, 2013 In the transition that began after Chávez’ death, the political weakness of Maduro’s government had been displayed from the very moment he assumed the presidency, which, added to the economic exhaustion of the government’s political project, is the basis of one more crisis of all the forms […]

Great students and workers’ demonstration in Chile

PTR-CcC (Revolutionary Workers’ Party – Class against Class), from Chile June 27, 2013 On June 26, the students’ struggle against the marketization of the education – a legacy of Pinochet’s regime which has been maintained and deepened by the Concertación coalition, which has governed since the return of democracy in 1990 – took a big […]

First victory of the movement! We can go for more! Release all the prisoners and dismiss the lawsuits!

By LER-QI, Brasil Thursday, June 20, 2013 On June 6, several thousand people, especially young students, went out to the streets of São Paulo, the biggest city in the country, to repudiate an increase in transit fares of 0.20 reals (from R$ 3.00 to R$ 3.20), that Dilma Rousseff’s government ordered nationally. The police responded […]

Against the repression by Miguel Angel Mancera’s government

The Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo (Workers for Socialism League – LTS), the Juventud Socialista Anticapitalista y Revolucionaria (Socialist Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Youth –JASyR), the Agrupación de Mujeres Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses Women’s Association) and fraternal organizations demand the immediate release of our members and all political prisoners arrested on June 10th. Around […]