PTS against the government’s McCarthyism

(PTS. March 27, 2013) On March 24, there was a demonstration in Buenos Aires to mark the 37th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina. Like every year, the human rights umbrella organisation Encuentro Memoria, Verdad y Justicia (EMVJ) (Encounter Memory, Truth and Justice)– an umbrella group that brings together dozens of human rights organisations, […]

German imperialism has imposed humiliating conditions on Cyprus

Thursday, March 28, 2013 Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with the IMF and the European Central Bank, has succeeded, under extreme circumstances, in imposing draconian and humiliating economic conditions on Cyprus. In this way, Cyprus has avoided bankruptcy, which would almost certainly have led to it leaving the Eurozone immediately. The plan is as harsh as […]

Members’ Forum

A new phase in the crisis of the euro

Thursday, March 21, 2013 The decision of the European Union (EU) and the Cypriot government to confiscate part of the deposits of small savers indicates a stepping up by the creditor countries to avoid, at all costs, the devaluation of the mountain of debt (an explosion of “fictitious capital”) that has been accumulated. In their […]

BBC Interview with Myriam Bregman

“Bergoglio was a partner in crime in the silence of the Church over the genocidal dictatorship”

(PTS, March 14, 2013) Myriam Bregman is a lawyer of the CeProDH (Professionals’ Centre for Human Rights), a member of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS) of Argentina and a lawyer in the ESMA trial (ESMA was the Mechanics’ School of the Argentine Navy, which functioned as a torture and death camp during the dirty […]

The crisis of the Catholic Church

By Diego Dalai Thursday, March 14, 2013 The Conclave (a closed meeting, from the Latin for “with a key”) of 115 Cardinals, that has just voted for a new Pope, was much quicker than was estimated and, surprisingly, elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, from Argentina, from now on, Francis I. Although Bergoglio has been one of […]

Venezuela without Chávez: a new stage opens

On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 5th, the vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced the death of President Hugo Chávez from the cancer that he had been diagnosed with in June 2011. It is no wonder that Chávez’s death has caused a stir both at home and abroad: for nearly a decade and a […]

Mass demonstrations against the attacks from Rajoy’s government

Carlos Muro, Clase contra Clase Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Doctors, teachers, firefighters, workers from the private sector, unemployed workers, and students, yelling “Against the coup d’état by the markets, we owe nothing, we’re not paying,” demonstrated in more that 80 Spanish cities, with the support of more than 300 organizations. The massive demonstrations were called […]