Workers Left Front (FIT)
Nicolás Del Caño and the Left in the Presidential Debate
For the first time ever last Sunday, Argentina’s presidential debate was publicly broadcasted on live television. Front-running candidate -- and Kirchner’s favorite -- Daniel Scioli was a no-show. During the debate, dissident peronist Sergio Massi and Cambiemos leader Mauricio Macri (Mayor of Buenos Aires) failed to gain ground. Left and Workers’ Front (FIT) leader Nicolás del Caño (MP) made a strong case.
Gloria Grinberg
October 9, 2015
‘We want a hard left that denounces the political caste and fights with workers’
PHOTO: Enfoque Rojo This article was previously published on LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes interviewed Del Cano about the situation in Argentina today and the upcoming October presidential elections. Initiated just over four years ago, the Left and Workers Front (FIT) in Argentina has become a key reference point […]
Federico Fuentes
September 17, 2015
On the Rise of the Frente De Izquierda (FIT) in Argentina: A Debate on the Idea Of “Broad Parties”
On August 9, the national primary elections, known as the PASO*, were held in Argentina.
Jimena Vergara
August 28, 2015
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.
Jimena Vergara
August 14, 2015
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
Laura Varlet
August 13, 2015
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.
Juan Cruz Ferre
August 13, 2015
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, […]
Left Voice
August 10, 2015
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.
Gloria Grinberg
August 9, 2015
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?
Matías Maiello
July 18, 2015
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.
Gloria Grinberg
July 7, 2015