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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Elin Gauffin is a member of ISA’s International Women’s Bureau. “Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” There is hope in the youthful socialist feminism around the world, which, in conjunction with the workers’ struggle, is sowing the seeds of a new society. The first international ROSA conference Women Life Freedom took place on 18 […]
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