On Chávez’s Actions Against RCTV

By Juventud de Izquierda Revolucionaria (public faction of the PRS), from Caracas The major media throughout the world and especially the CNN media chain are seizing upon Chávez’s measure to cancel the license of the right-wing opposition-controlled RCTV television station to launch an attack campaign on Venezuela masked behind the banner of “freedom of the […]

Student occupation in São Paulo

Not the threats of repression, nor the reactionary media campaign by the bourgeoisie, nor pressure by la Rectora [the Dean], managed to take down the occupation of the Rector’s Office promoted by the students on strike in the University of São Paulo (USP). Since May 3, the property of the Rector’s Office has become the […]

G8 Summit: Escalating repression in Germay

From June 6 to June 8, 2007, the next summit of the Group of Eight (G8), a meeting of chiefs of state and of government of the 7 most important imperialist countries on earth: Germany, Canada, the US, France, Italy, Britain and Japan, plus Russia, will take place in Heiligendamm, Germany. The meeting will be […]

The Pope’s “mission” in Brazil

Displaying his past as a member of the Hitler Youth, Pope Benedict XVI took the opportunity to conclude his visit to Brazil with a too-long speech against Marxism. The leaders of the Catholic Church in Latin America received precise instructions to intervene in the phenomena of the class struggle that has been confronting neo-liberalism in […]

Massacre in Virginia

No one knows what was in South Korean student Cho Seung-Hui’s head as he fired. In the end, 32 people died and another 20 were wounded in the two shootings at Virginia Tech, leaving Americans across the country and people throughout the world in disbelief. The media and the Bush administration declared it a “national […]

The tasks of the Left in response to Chávez’s project

Appeal of the Trotskyist Faction-Fourth International to the International Workers League (LIT) and its principal organization, the PTSU of Brazil, The Coordinating Committee for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International (CRCI) led by the Partido Obrero (PO) of Argentina and the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR) of Bolivia for a united campaign for the nationalization without […]

Defend union independence

In speeches given over the past months, Chávez has sharply attacked the autonomy of the trade unions with respect to the government and the State. “The trade unions should not be autonomous … that has to be done away with”, he stated. This hostile rhetoric comes about at the same time Chávez calls for the […]

Is Chávez the heir of the Cuban revolution?

In La Verdad Obrera 219 and 220 (you can read those issues in www.pts.org.ar in Spanish) we gave an account of the Cuban Revolution. In this last installment we want to discuss the self-interested vision promoted by castrismo and chavismo that seeks to identify the Cuban Revolution with the Bolivarian movement. Chavismo presents the so-called […]

Four Questions about Chávez Project

Hugo Chávez raised his voice against Bush from the platform in the Ferro Stadium that Kirchner’s government prepared for him. His speech was broadcast to millions on TV and confirmed the great popularity that the President of Venezuela enjoys in Argentina and the rest of the continent. Chávez won this popularity with a speech focused […]