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

September 17, 2023March 24, 2024Cormac Kelly

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 […]

Catalonia: Defeat Article 155/Francoist repression with a general strike

October 20, 2017Izquierda Revolucionaria (CWI in the Spanish state)

Release Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Cuixart! Down the PP government! For a Catalan socialist republic! After the brutal police repression unleashed on 1 October against the people of Catalonia, the Spanish ruling class and its state apparatus continue their anti-democratic offensive. The imprisonment without bail of Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sánchez is being followed by […]

Madrid government repression against Catalonia’s right to decide

September 22, 2017Esquerra Revolucionaria (CWI in Catalonia)

After days of a police and judicial offensive, without quarter, in which democratic rights have been trampled on with fury, the Spanish Partido Popular (People’s Party/PP) government decided to use massive repression to prevent the people of Catalonia from exercising their right to decide their future. In an operation reminiscent of the days of the […]