Venezuelan Crisis is Not the “Failure of Socialism”

For a solution based on working class independence! The July 28 presidential election in Venezuela was a decisive turning point in the deepening political, economic and social crisis in the country. Beyond the dispute over whether or not to recognize the announced electoral result, the underlying issue is that neither the continuity of Nicolás Maduro […]

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Chilean Defeat of the Far-Right Opens the Road for New Mass Struggles

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Gabriel Boric, of the “Apruebo Dignidad” (Approve Dignity) coalition has defeated the far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast in the second round of the Chilean elections. Boric obtained 55.8% of the votes, almost one million more than Kast. This reversed the situation of […]

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Chile: Pinochet Constitution Rejected! Plebiscite Victory Opens Road to New Struggles

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). The Battle is Just Beginning The Chilean people gave another example of consciousness and strength this Sunday, 25 October. The Constitution inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship was rejected by 78% of voters in the plebiscite that turned out 7.5 million people, the highest […]

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Bolivia: Mass Struggle to Overthrow Áñez and Assure Free and Democratic Elections Now!

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). For almost two weeks, the movement of Bolivian workers, peasants and indigenous people has been mobilizing marches, demonstrations, and more than a hundred roadblocks throughout the country against the anti-democratic, anti-working class, and pro-imperialist project of Jeanine Áñez’s illegitimate government. The Bolivian […]

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Everything solid melts into air – revolution and counterrevolution in Latin America

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Three decades after the cynical announcements of the “end of history” from the ideologues of big capital, drunk with the fall of the Berlin wall, we are living through a dramatic acceleration of the historical period. From Sudan and Algeria to Hong […]

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Brazil: Perspective for the resistance to Bolsonaro

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil is a country that is going backwards in all respects. Seven months after his inauguration, what we see is poverty, unemployment, the withdrawal of social rights, attacks on democratic freedoms, authoritarianism, submission to imperialism and a permanent offensive against […]

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Brazil: General strike demonstrates working class strength against President Temer’s ‘reforms’

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). On 28 April, the Brazilian working class gave a clear sign of its strength and ability to mobilise. A 24-hour general strike was called, as a unified action by all the trade union centres of the country, against the pension and labour […]

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Brazil – Fall of Dilma Rousseff unleashes offensive against working class

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). The impeachment process and historic crisis of the PT (Workers’ Party)  By André Ferrari, LSR (‘Freedom, Socialism and Revolution’ – CWI Brazil)  A new stage in the class struggle has opened in Brazil. The country is living through the deepest economic and […]

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Brazil: Strikes, demonstrations and roadblocks open a new stage in the struggle

André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Organized working class enters stage of struggle After gathering more than two million people in demonstrations in 500 cities during the month of June, Brazil is experiencing a new phase of mobilization. The national day struggles on July 11 represented the first […]

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