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 […]

Faced with the two faces of austerity, let the voice of the anti-capitalists be heard in the Presidential elections!

By the Revolutionary Communist Tendency – Platform 4 of the NPA Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Let’s vote for Philippe Poutou! The two official candidates of the bourgeoisie follow one another onto the stage and compete in acrobatics, to try to conceal from the voters the punches below the belt they are preparing if they are […]

Expropriation without compensation of the entire YPF company under workers’ control!

PTS, Monday April 16, 2012 Following President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s announcement of a draft bill to the Congress to take control of 51 per cent of the Repsol-YPF oil and gas company, Christian Castillo, member of the national leadership of the PTS (Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas) and former candidate for the vice-presidency for the […]

The revolutionaries and the Left Front

By Manu Georget Below we present an article by Manu Georget, a former CGT shop steward at Philips Dreux, who fought against the closure of the factory in 2010. He is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Current in the NPA (www.ccr4.org), in which our FT comrades in France are active. When the Left Front […]

Cuba: “Close relationships” in order to advance in the restoration [of capitalism]

By Diego Dalai After his cynical and provocative passage through the Mexico of the murders of women and homophobia, protected by the state, Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the highest representative of the Catholic Church, a close ally of imperialism and the most reactionary and obscurantist institution on the planet, that is against the use of condoms, […]