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Repression is not making us surrender

By: PTR–CcC (Partido de los Trabajadores Revolucionarios – Clase contra Clase), from Chile Thursday, August 16, 2012 With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from the Interior Ministry. More than 70 students arrested and prosecuted while, hours before, student-occupied high […]

Left Voice

August 18, 2012

For a revolutionary policy, independent of reformism, that prioritises struggles

Platform E, put forward by comrades who voted for P4 or P2 in the last congress Introduction The National Conference should allow the NPA to begin emerging from its crisis. Let’s put an end to the laming compromises, the ambiguous formulas and the agreements at the top! Many comrades are appalled by these methods and […]

Left Voice

July 19, 2012

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 […]

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May 9, 2012

Stop the repression and murder. Solidarity with the workers, youth and the Egyptian people in struggle

On Friday 18/11, tens of thousands of people returned to Tahir Square. Once more the iconic square it is filled with young people who are fighting against the attempt of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to reserve for itself the right to review any article of the new Constitution that – according […]

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November 23, 2011

Strike in Oakland: unity between young people and workers

By Barbara Funes Occupy Oakland called a general strike as a means of protest for November 3. The strike was carried out, and it had partial observance among dockworkers, nurses, and teachers. According to the bourgeois press, of the 325 unionized stevedores, without an official strike call from the union, 40 stopped work; around 300 […]

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November 12, 2011

Three months of students’ struggle.

By: PTS, Argentina Thursday, August 25, 2011 At press time for this edition, the first day of the national 48-hour strike called by the Chilean Trade Union Congress (CUT) was reaching its climax. After the massive day of struggle, Sunday, August 21, the first day of blockades, barricades and marches has joined the enormous student […]

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August 31, 2011

RIO joins The Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International (FT-CI) as sympathizing sections

After more than one and a half years of discussions with the FT-CI, RIO is joining as sympathizing sections in Germany and the Czech Republic La Verdad Obrera (newspaper of the PTS, Argentinian section of the FT-CI), interviewed Wladek Flakin and Stefan Schneider about this advancement in the relationship to the FT. LVO: How did […]

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August 31, 2011

How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world

From Athens to Cairo and Spain to Santiago, old certainties are being challenged after the Arab spring and financial crises • •Jack Shenker •guardian.co.uk, Friday 12 August 2011 18.12 BST • larger | smaller •Article history Protests against austerity measures in Athens were just some of the examples of youth-led protest in the first half […]

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August 13, 2011

Programmatic declaration of the Workers’ Left Front

The Workers’ Left Front (FIT) has been set up in defence of workers’ political independence in opposition to the different capitalist blocs represented by the government, the right-wing opposition and the different variants of the centre-left. It does this based on a workers’ and socialist position of class independence, by raising a programme to promote […]

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June 20, 2011

Lessons of class struggle in France

The bourgeoisies across Europe are imposing austerity programs on the workers and youth, and Germany is no exception. But due to the momentary strength of German imperialism, which was able to bolster its position at the expense of other imperialist powers, and with the active support of the trade union bureaucracy, the struggles against this […]

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January 26, 2011