Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Gains of the revolution of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro under threat The Financial Times boasted: “There is a new entry among Cuba’s roll of important dates. Alongside Fidel Castro’s 26th July movement and the January 1st 1959 ’triumph of the revolution’, there […]
Continue ReadingGabriela Sánchez is a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela). At the end of October, in a national address to the nation, Maduro announced the discovery of two enormous warehouses of medical goods in Aragua state. While speaking, images were shown of row after row of towering shelves with everything from wheelchairs to needles […]
Continue ReadingLatest US-backed ‘drugs war’ horror sends shock waves throughout Mexico When it comes to student protests, the recent movement in Hong Kong has claimed the international headlines. Receiving scant media attention has been the wave of protests in Mexico, following the “disappearances” of 43 student teachers in the southern state of Guerrero. It is a […]
Continue ReadingDanny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Debt crisis is back – the class struggle and tasks for the Left Over a decade has passed since the Argentinian financial crash of 2000-2002, which led to one of history’s biggest sovereign defaults. The dominant narrative has it that the ensuing period […]
Continue ReadingGabriela Sánchez and John Rivas are members of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela). Urgent need for a revolutionary alternative In the midst of deep economic and political crisis in Venezuela, generated by the counter- revolutionary actions of the right wing and the erratic policies of the government, combined with the possibility of an increase in […]
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Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ’9/11’. In Chile, on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet […]
Continue ReadingAndré 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 […]
Continue ReadingTony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. After a long battle with cancer, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died on 5 March 2013. TONY SAUNOIS assesses the role of Chávez and the situation following his death. Most capitalist journals and commentators could barely contain their glee at the death of Venezuela’s […]
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