The government of Evo Morales is responding to the third day of COB* strikes and blockades with repression and McCarthyist discourse.

More than 500 people attended the presentation of the book "Lenin: Selected Works"(Lenin, Obras Selectas), which took place at the Feria Internacional del libro in Buenos Aires.

The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s weak victory in Venezuela, Cartés’ success gives a certain encouragement to the political right wing of the Southern Cone.

On April 21, the Left and Workers’ Front submitted a bill in the Neuquén provincial parliament proposing that no member of parliament or state official should earn more than a teacher with 20 years’ service.

On April 21 and 22, the election for the shop stewards committee at the Coca-Cola plant in Pompeya, Buenos Aires city, took place. The rank-and-file list, called Lista Marrón (Brown List) was backed by 43% of the workforce in a 93% turn out. The Lista Verde (Green List), backed by the union leadership, came second, and a split from the Green List came third. The plant has 609 workers and we spoke with two members of the newly elected shop stewards committee.

Doctors, teachers, firefighters, workers from the private sector, unemployed workers, and students, yelling “Against the coup d’état by the markets, we owe nothing, we’re not paying,” demonstrated in more that 80 Spanish cities, with the support of more than 300 organizations.

On Thursday, February 21, Juan Pablo Jiménez Garrido, President of Union Number 1 of the electrical engineering firm Azeta, and President of the Federation of Workers of Azeta, a subcontracting firm of Chilectra , was found murdered in his workplace, from a bullet in the head.

The most recent information about the Bárcenas case, published by El País exposes still further the real nature of the political regime born from the Transition and all its institutions.

An unexpected and closed election result shook the country and has put the national situation in suspense. Nicolás Maduro hardly exceeded the candidate of the rightwing opposition...

The PRI government, headed by current president Enrique Peña Nieto, is pushing to impose, at all costs, an educational reform that seeks to advance the privatization of education.

Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS (Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas), made a statement after floods caused chaos in parts of Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province.

For a revolutionary constituent process.

For a working-class and socialist solution to the crisis

A speech by Vincent Duse, a militant of the CGT in the Peugeot Mulhouse plant and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Current (in the NPA) of France

When the news item became known, in Brixton (a neighborhood in South London), in Glasgow (Scotland), and certainly in more than one miners’ town, many people went out to the street by way of celebration.

For years, the international economic crisis has been exerting pressure on the local economy, mainly through falling nickel prices (the country’s second-largest foreign-currency income), the increase in food prices (Cuba must import 80% of the food that it consumes, and this is the main expenditure in dollars that it has to make), and scarcity of credit. What has prevented the economy from collapsing, from 2008 until now, is the financing in various ways that Venezuela (the biggest economic partner since 2003) gives Cuba.

After his cynical and provocative passage through the Mexico of the murders of women and homophobia, Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the highest representative of the Catholic Church, a close ally of imperialism and the most reactionary and obscurantist institution on the planet, arrived in Cuba...

Official rhetoric insists that "53 years after the victory of the Revolution, Cuba is absorbed in modernizing its economic model, a process designed to guarantee the continuity and strengthening of the socialist system adopted by the Island"...