Argentina: First Round Vote Rejects Far-Right Milei

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). The Finance Minister and candidate of Unión por la Patria recovered from defeat in the Primaries where he had obtained 27.27% and this time he won, with 36.63%. La Libertad Avanza, Milei’s party, this time did not advance, obtaining 30.02%, practically the same votes […]

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Argentina: Electoral Triumph of the Far-Right

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). Don’t be paralyzed by the fear of the advance of the ultra-right, get organized and fight. At the end of August, when it was finally officially confirmed that the far-right candidate Javier Milei had won the open, simultaneous and compulsory primary elections (PASO) with […]

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Argentina: Crisis and Class Struggle in Crucial Election Year

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). Political Glossary Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores — Unidad. (Left and Workers Front — Unity) Formed in 2011 as the electoral coalition of the four largest Trotskyist parties: the PTS, Partido Obrero, Izquierda Socialista and the MST (who joined in the 2019 elections). […]

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Peru: Pedro Castillo Wins

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). No Concessions to Capital! Build Mass Mobilisation for Radical Change The deep economic crisis, the great social polarization and the radicalization of the poorest sectors in Peru were expressed in the presidential elections with the triumph of the rural teacher and candidate for the […]

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Argentina Abortion Legalised!

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). A Triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ Movement In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (IVE) by 38 votes in against 29. When the result of […]

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Argentina: Deepening Crisis Weakens Government

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). It has been one year since the election of Alberto and Cristina Fernández, which generated positive expectations in large sectors of Argentinean society, fundamentally among the working class, the youth and the women’s movement. But during the last few months, as the economic crisis […]

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Argentina: Foreign Debt Agreement — Vultures Celebrate

Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). After months of negotiations and ever-increasing concessions by the government of Alberto Fernández, finally on Tuesday, August 4, an agreement with the main “vulture funds” was announced to restructure the payment of US$ 64.8 billion, out of a total of US$ 321 billion in […]

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