Elections in Ecuador

As this edition goes to press, amidst accusations of fraud, the preliminary election results indicate that no candidate got enough votes to win in the first round of balloting,. The outcome will be settled in a second round on November 26 between the multimillionaire banana entrepreneur Alvaro Noboa (with twenty-six percent of the first round […]

Fight back against the co-operative miners and the MAS

Urgent: Solidarise with, and mobilise in support of, the workers of Huanuni Huanuni is in flames. The clashes, including exchanges of dynamite, are continuing, with a current toll of 11 deaths and 65 injured since Thursday October 4th, when hundreds of co-operativists tried to occupy the Cerro Pososkoni, threatening the territory and installations of the […]

The Power of the Oaxaca Commune

As this edition was closing, the failure of negotiations between the Interior Secretariat [Secretaría de Gobernación] and the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, APPO, was announced. At the same time, threats of repression, with direct intervention by the [militarized] Federal Preventive Police [PFP] are growing. As the power of the APPO grows, the […]

Mexico: The Commune of Oaxaca

While the mass media are only talking about the proclamation of Felipe Calderón (PAN) as the new President, in southern Mexico an intense mobilization is developing in the city of Oaxaca. After the brutal repression on June 14 against the strike of the Oaxaca teachers, the struggle grew massively, by uniting the workers and the […]

Mass strike prevents layoffs

By Isabel Infanta, Fracción Trotskista-Cuarta Internacional [Edited] In the industrial heart of Brazil, the “ABC paulista”*, metallurgical workers in the Volkswagen (VW) Anchieta factory, the biggest producer of cars in Brazil, are confronting a harsh restructuring plan by the bosses, who seek to fire 3,600 of the 12,400 workers and eliminate workers’ rights, to improve […]

UN troops out of LEBANON!

Last week, one of the central aspects of UN Resolution 1701, referring to sending troops to a “security zone” in southern Lebanon, began to be implemented. The resolution, promoted by France and the US and custom-made for the Zionist state, seeks to create a force to cover Israel’s back, after its military defeat. The new […]

Transform the resistance into a broad struggle for national and social liberation

As the Israeli air force, armed by US imperialism, bombs the villages of southern Lebanon, destroys the infrastructure, and murders civilians – mostly children, the elderly, and disabled people – the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora “regrets” that the “international community” won’t intervene to stop the offensive, and hopes that the principal sponsor of Israel, […]

What the transfer of power in Cuba means

Unexpectedly, after his participation in the MERCOSUR Summit in Córdoba and in the commemoration ceremonies of July 26 in Cuba, on August 1, it was announced that Fidel Castro was delegating power to his brother Raúl, because of an urgent operation that he had to undergo. The news quickly went around the world and became […]

No to UN or NATO intervention!

After two weeks of the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, the battles on the border and the destructure of the infrastructure continue with the deliberate goal of terrorizing the civilian population. As this scandal unfolds, Condoleeza Rice began her diplomatic tour aiming to gain more time for the Israeli army to continue using US bombs and […]