20,000 in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank

Thursday, May 24, 2012 By Wladek Flakin, RIO, sympathizing section of the Fracción Trotskista in Germany 20,000 people came to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt, on May 19, to participate in a mass march against the European Central Bank (ECB) and the austerity policy that the ECB is imposing throughout Europe. In the days preceding the […]

Down with Assad’s Brutal Repression! No to Imperialist Interference and Intervention!

The massacre of approximately 116 civilians in Houla, near the opposition-held city of Homs, is one of the bloodiest acts since the uprising against Assad's regime began, 14 months ago. As on other occasions, the government admits the slaughter, but it is trying to hold “Al Qaeda terrorists” responsible for what happened. However, the regime has not offered any serious evidence that would support its version or refute the accounts of the massacre by survivors.

A forceful repudiation of the pro-austerity parties

By Alejandra Ríos The outcome of the May 6 elections in Greece represented an historic debacle for PASOK (the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a social-democratic tendency) and (center-right) New Democracy, the parties responsible for imposing the austerity plans, revealing a broad repudiation of the austerity policy dictated by the troika formed by the European Commission, the […]

A specter is threatening Europe

The Nobel Laureate in Economics and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicted the “Greek euro exit, very possibly next month.” If this prediction comes true, both Krugman and the publications Financial Times and Der Spiegel maintain that the panic would spread to the rest of the eurozone and that the next step would be […]

The Socialist Party’s victory in France

The future of the relationship with Germany, the rise of the xenophobic right wing, the policy of the reformist Front of the Left and the campaign of the "far left"

The student movement retakes the streets

By Fabián Puelma, Law student at the University of Chile and student leader of the PTR More than 100,000 students mobilized nationally on April 25. Only a few days after the announcement by Piñera’s government of some reforms that do not aim at the central demand of the movement, which is free education, the student […]

Québec: 12 weeks of a student strike

By Juan Andrés Gallardo With massive mobilizations and a strike that has already lasted for 12 weeks, the students of the Province of Québec (Canada) have been carrying out a very tough struggle against the neoliberal policies and the increase in university tuition that the Québec Premier Jean Charest wants to impose. The university students […]

The limits of Mélenchon’s Front of the Left and the liquidationist tendencies within the far left

By: Revolutionary Communist Tendency, Platform 4 of the NPA Thursday, April 26, 2012 On April 22, the first round of the presidential elections in France took place, in which, with 28.6% of the votes, François Hollande, the candidate of the reformist Socialist Party (PS), turned out to be the winner. He will go to the […]

Spanish State: Austerity and Repression

By Clase contra Clase (Spanish state) http://www.clasecontraclase.org/ Wednesday, April 25, 2012 By Jorge Calderón, a high-school teacher and militant of Clase contra Clase, in the Spanish state The Spanish bourgeoisie, whether through the Partido Popular (PP) central government or the regional governments, has entered into an “unrestrained spiral,” by cutting absolutely everything. The slogan is […]