The White House is responding to Governor Jan Brewer’s law and to the intensification of activity by racist and xenophobic groups with ... an unenthusiastic lawsuit. This is how Obama plans to confront a law that social, political and human rights organizations are already condemning as the institutionalization of racism!

The new political situation after the prisoners’ release has strengthened the role of the Catholic Church as a negotiator between the government, the right-wing opposition and imperialism.

The Party of Socialist Workers (PTS) salutes the triumph of the Yes vote which the comrades of the Stefani ceramics factory manages with more than five thousand votes n favor against the 47 who voted for No proposed by the town’s Mayor.

Military penetration of the country only corresponds to the US plans of militarization (led by Obama), the aim of which is put what they consider their backyard under complete control, before possible social upheavals, while they continue taking positions in alliance with, and with the complete backing of the local governments.

The one-day strike on June 24 against Sarkozy’s pension reform had big repercussions. Although it was not as big as last year’s day-long strikes, it was the biggest strike since September, with around 2 million demonstrators in the streets, according to the unions.

Both the strike and the resistance by the Fiat workers in Naples, show that there exists a willingness to confront the austerity plans they want to impose, but at the same time it shows the impotent politics of the CGIL leadership.

On June 21, in Bangladesh, more than 50,000 working men and women mobilized on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital. This mobilization, which blocked one of the main highways that connect the capital to the northern part of the country, was the culmination of two weeks of protests, strikes and street actions in the main industrial districts.

The Neuquen ceramic workers’ union and those who are pushing for a YES vote on the Cutral Co referendum for the expropriation of Stefani are heading up the final weeks of the campaign.

The role of the police, as a "band of armed men," is that of defending capitalist private property through the monopoly of force; that is why, for revolutionary socialists, there is no question of reforming that reactionary institution, but of putting an end to it.

Just like in Vietnam, Obama’s "good war" is turning into a nightmare for US imperialism.

On May 31, the Israeli navy opened fire on an international flotilla that was trying to deliver a cargo of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and in that way break the brutal air, land and maritime blockade imposed by the State of Israel and Egypt since the beginning of 2007, with the explicit support of the United States and the European Union.

If any struggle is symbolic, from which we must draw lessons, it is that of the comrades at Mitsubishi, who not only confronted the Japanese multinational, but faced the opposition of the national government itself, through the Ministry of Labor.

Down with sexual oppression! Down with all the laws and regulations that discriminate against and repress gays, lesbians, transvestites, and transsexuals! Full rights for non-heterosexual people!

The USP workers, who have been on strike for 37 days, ended the struggle when the Chancellor João Grandino Rodas, representative of the San Pablo governor, Jose Serra, conceded a 6% salary increase for the professors, excluding the non-teaching workers.

A new battalion of the world working class, one of the strongest and structural power, begins to enter the scene. Stay tuned.

The limits of Lula’s international policy are marked by the very condition of Brazil as a country that, in spite of assuming a position of regional power, cannot openly confront US imperialism.