Workers Left Front (FIT)
Defying Repression: Socialist Electeds in Argentina Show Us What Revolutionary Parliamentarism Looks Like
Workers in Argentina are defying police repression and fighting back against the far-right government’s shock therapy. Trotskyist members of congress are not just protesting inside the chamber — they are on the front lines of the demonstrations, getting pepper sprayed and shot with rubber bullets.
Nathaniel Flakin
February 9, 2024Crisis for Javier Milei as Austerity Bill Is Defeated
After a national strike and days of mobilizations, the movement in the streets has defeated far-right president Javier Milei’s anti-worker Omnibus Bill.
Otto Fors
February 7, 2024All Eyes Are on Argentina Ahead of Its January 24 National Strike
Since the night of his acceptance speech in November, far-right President Javier Milei has mounted an all-out attack on the rights and living conditions of working people in Argentina. Thousands of people across the country — organized in unions and workers’ organizations, the feminist movement, the student movement, and neighborhood organizations — are preparing to fight back. They are mounting a national strike to defeat austerity and authoritarianism.
Madeleine Freeman
January 23, 2024Milei’s Shock Therapy and the Workers’ Response
Milei’s right-wing government has launched an all-out attack on workers’ rights and an economic program tailored to business’ interests. A tumultuous period of class struggle lies ahead, for which the outcome is still open.
Juan Cruz Ferre
December 26, 2023Tens of Thousands of Argentinians Protest Milei’s Pro-IMF Austerity Plan and Authoritarian Policies
Despite threats of violence and heavy repression, thousands of working people in Argentina have taken to the streets to protest far-right President Javier Milei’s full-frontal austerity policies.
Maryam Alaniz
December 22, 2023Solidarity with Myriam Bregman, Socialist Congresswoman in Argentina, Under Attack for Her Defense of Palestine
Myriam Bregman, the candidate of the Workers Left Front, received almost 3 percent of votes in Argentina’s presidential election. She has been subject to false accusations of antisemitism due to her consistent defense of Palestinians. Hundreds of activists and politicians from around the world expressed their solidarity with this open letter.
La Izquierda Diario Argentina
November 15, 2023Means and Ends: A Debate on the Left over Hamas’s Strategy
Support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people does not mean the revolutionary Left should refrain from criticizing the program, strategy, and methods of Hamas.
Matías Maiello
November 14, 2023International Statement in Support of the Left and Workers Front — Unity (FIT-U) in the Argentinian Elections
Hundreds of activists, intellectuals, trade union leaders, and political organizations from all over the world have signed this declaration in support of the Workers Left Front — Unity (FITU) in the Argentinian elections this Sunday.
Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS)
October 19, 2023Broad Left Parties Are a Dead End
Syriza, Podemos, and other broad left parties were supposed to help socialists increase their influence. The record has been pretty dismal. A debate with Tempest.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 11, 2022Myriam Bregman: Argentina’s Agreement with the IMF is a “New Colonial Pact”
In an interview with one of Argentina’s leading daily newspapers, Myriam Bregman — a member of the country’s Congress and a leader of the Left Front–Unity — criticized the current president for “legitimizing the scam perpetrated” by the former administration and proposed a “sovereign nonrecognition” of the foreign debt.
Pedro Lacour
February 19, 2022