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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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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Latin America: Second “Pink Tide”: What Way Forward?

Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). This second wave of reformism in power is already proving to be anything but a repetition of the first. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, propelled by mass movements of the working class and rural poor, a wave of left-wing electoral victories […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #17

Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]

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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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