New book. “Lenin: Selected Works”

More than 500 people attended the presentation of the book “Lenin: Selected Works”(Lenin, Obras Selectas), which took place at the Feria Internacional del libro** in Buenos Aires. Julio Patricio Rovelli, from Ediciones IPS presented one of the editors, Cecilia Feijoo, and a memeber of the “Instituto del Pensamiento Socialista Karl Marx” (Socialist thinking Institute Karl […]

Paraguay: The victory of the right-winger Cartés

By Eduardo Molina Wednesday, April 24, 2013 The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s weak victory in Venezuela, […]

For a socialist and internationalist May Day

Date: Thursday, April 18th 2013 On May Day, the Frente de Izquierda (FIT, the Left Front) will be organising public rallies in the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, and other places in the country to commemorate International Workers’ Day. May 1st is a day of struggle, not for celebrations; it was established more than 120 […]

No member of parliament or state official should earn more than a teacher!

By Raúl Godoy (PTS member, Zanon worker and Provincial Deputy in Neuquén province, Argentina) On April 21, the Left and Workers’ Front submitted a bill in the Neuquén provincial parliament proposing that no member of parliament or state official should earn more than a teacher with 20 years’ service. Today, a provincial deputy earns around […]

Rank-and-file candidates win election in Coca-Cola plant in Buenos Aires

Thursday, 25 April 2013 On April 21 and 22, the election for the shop stewards committee at the Coca-Cola plant in Pompeya, Buenos Aires city, took place. The rank-and-file list, called Lista Marrón (Brown List) was backed by 43% of the workforce in a 93% turn out. The Lista Verde (Green List), backed by the […]

We must not allow imperialism to capitalize on the crisis of chavismo

An unexpected and closed election result shook the country and has put the national situation in suspense. Nicolás Maduro hardly exceeded the candidate of the rightwing opposition, Capriles Radonski, by 272,865 votes, a very narrow margin, compared with the more than 1.5 million vote difference with which Chávez defeated Capriles in the presidential elections six […]

Mexican Teachers Fight Continues

The PRI government, headed by current president Enrique Peña Nieto, is pushing to impose, at all costs, an educational reform that seeks to advance the privatization of education. The reform would entail the elimination of labor gains by enforcing teaching evaluations standards created by private companies, the closing of Normal Schools (Teacher training college), and […]

“Perspectives are opening up for revolutionaries inside the NPA and within the working class”

Thursday, April 11, 2013 A speech by Vincent Duse, a militant of the CGT in the Peugeot Mulhouse plant and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Current (in the NPA) of France Comrades: Before beginning my statement, I want to bring a greeting from my comrades of the CCR, an internationalist greeting for everyone. At […]

Resolution of the National Congress on International

The PTS Congress, gathered in Buenos Aires, March 29 to April 2, passed two key resolutions: 1. To prioritise its intervention in Bolivia, France and Argentina (see page 13 of LVO), where important battles are to be faced. In Bolivia, the LOR-CI is fighting for a common block with the most advanced sections of miners […]