Two Different Paths: Syriza and Podemos or the FIT?

Last Sunday’s primary elections in Argentina closed with great celebrations. Running under a revolutionary working-class program, the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) presented two separate slates for the first time since its formation in 2011. The FIT’s election results offer important considerations for the international left.

Plenary session ‘Building anticapitalist fronts and the goal of the revolutionary party’

Laura Varlet’s intervention on the experience of the PTS and the FIT

Primary Elections: PTS Slate Leads the Left Front (FIT)

On Sunday, August 9, the national “open primaries” in Argentina came to a close. The Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) gained over 725 thousand votes, 3.3% of the national total. Slate 1A emerged as the leading slate within the FIT.

Madygraf: Behind Every Worker is a Family

Author Wendy Goldman talks about her visit to Argentina and to the worker-controlled factory, Madygraf.

Bus Drivers of Line 60 defeat employer sackings and lock out

After a marathon 41 day struggle, the 1,200 bus drivers of the Line 60 bus service in Buenos Aires returned to work on August 5 after winning the reinstatement of fifty sacked workmates. This historic strike by the drivers, known as “choferes” in Argentina, successfully ‘twisted the arm’ of the triple alliance of bosses, government and the leadership of the Union Tranviarios Automotor (UTA - Tram Drivers Union) that was lined up against them.

ARGENTINA: Nicolás del Caño leads the primaries in the Left and Workers’ Front

Photo: La Izquierda Diario With nearly 80 % of the votes counted, the candidate for President Nicolas Del Caño (PTS, representing the slate Renovar y Fortalecer el Frente) is leading the primary election by 20,000 votes. The Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) got the 3.49 percent of the vote, surpassing the 1.5-percent primary threshold yesterday, […]

We don’t want to be a symbolic left, Nicolás del Caño from the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT)

The primaries are taking place this weekend in Argentina. Last Thursday, August 6, Nicolás del Caño, national congressman and running presidential candidate in today’s primary elections, gave a speech to close his electoral campaign.

What can we learn from the electoral alliance of Argentina’s revolutionary left?

Where does the success of the FIT come from and what will be debated in the upcoming primary elections?

Good results for the Left and Workers’ Front in Mayoral and Legislative Elections in Buenos Aires and Córdoba

The Left and the Workers’ Front adds a new legislator to the bench in Buenos Aires, and three seats in Cordoba.