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 […]

Goodbye, the working class and the oppressed of the world are not going to miss you

Thursday, April 11, 2013 When the news item became known, in Brixton (a neighborhood in South London), in Glasgow (Scotland), and certainly in more than one miners’ town, many people went out to the street by way of celebration. In contrast, most of the representatives of the British bosses’ parties and of the imperialist governments […]

Argentina: The storm is natural; the deaths and the disaster are not

By Fernando Rosso and Ruth Werner The history of Argentina in the years of rule by the Kirchners could well be told through the social crimes that took place under their governments. Cromañon at the end of 2004, the Massacre at Once in February, last year, or those dead because of the storm, in Holy […]

Argentina: Kirchnerism begins to lose its grip on the workers’ movement

During November and December 2012, there was a series of demonstrations in Argentina which graphically expressed the loss of hegemony of the Kirchner government and the depth of its crisis of succession. There were several ‘cacerolazos’ – demonstrations in which kitchen pots and pans are banged together – similar to the one which had taken […]

Floods in Buenos Aires: 48 fatalities: ‘A new social crime against the people’

(PTS, April 3, 2013) Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS (Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas), made a statement after floods caused chaos in parts of Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province. The southern cities of Tolosa and La Plata have been inundated after more than 30mm of rain fell within a 20-hour period. Castillo […]