Far Right Regime of “El Loco” Milei Meets Working Class Resistance

What saves Milei in this situation, is the lack of a strong real political alternative and the role of the trade union bureaucracy in preventing a real struggle to turn the tables and topple the government. Hundreds of thousands of Argentinians flooded the streets on 2 October in defence of public universities and against president […]

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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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Milei’s Vicious Austerity Agenda Meets Immediate Resistance

The forces of reaction undoubtedly felt boosted when Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential elections last November. A self described “anarcho-capitalist,” the former TV personality promised to take a proverbial chainsaw to the state sector with a slew of shock privatisations and austerity measures. Yet 3 months into his presidency and Milei’s all out assault on […]

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Argentina Elections: Resist Milei and the Establishment!

Elin Miller is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Libertarian far-right “outsider” Javier Milei, of the rightwing coalition La Libertad Avanza, has been elected president of Argentina. He defeated Sergio Massa of the “center-left” coalition Unión por la Patria by a 56% to 44% margin. This is a decisive defeat for the populist […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #27

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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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Socialist Alternative Magazine #26

Workers Rising! Youth demand Socialism Alberta Toronto Rent Strikes Manitoba Election Fighting Caste Oppression Life of a Student What Makes Me Angry Women’s Safety Chile 1970 – 73, Revolution and Reaction US: Workers Strike Back Capitalism’s New Cold War BC Solidarity 1983: A Near Revolution Housing Emergency Capitalism’s Highway to Hell … and more from […]

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The Chilean Road to Socialism: A Warning for the Working Class

Cormac Kelly is a member of Socialist Alternative, England, Wales and Scotland On 11 September 1973, fifty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet launched his brutal military coup, drowning in blood the revolutionary movement that had been inspired by the government of Salvador Allende. For Marxists the study of history is not a passive diversion or […]

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Rise in Violence on the Front Lines of Environmental Struggle

Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria are members of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). Armed groups, criminal organizations and even state forces use lethal violence to silence any resistance to environmental destruction. As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, […]

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