Polemics

April 14, 2023 Towards a full Marxist critique of Stalinism’s Popular Front strategy. By: Joana Salay, Portugal Some sectors and left-wing activists have revived the book Anti-Dimitrov by Portuguese Communist theorist and militant Francisco Martins Rodrigues (FMR), which makes a harsh critique of the Communist International’s use of the popular front strategy since the Seventh […]

March 28, 2023 March 5 marked the 70th anniversary of the death of Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union for 30 years. The Popular Unity (UP), a recently founded left-wing party [n.b. In Brazil], commemorated the date on Twitter exalting “70 years of the Immortality of Joseph Stalin”. By: Bernardo Cerdeira In several tweets […]

Recent events reaffirm that we are living in the epoch of imperialist decadence. Lenin predicted that this would be an epoch of catastrophes and conflicts, wars and revolutions. In fact, the pandemic caused millions of deaths, with social and military conflicts in a large part of the globe, the increase in the economic crisis led […]

An ever-lurking confusion that has been gaining ground in recent times is that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. Nothing could be further from the truth. We understand that this confusion is three-folded: the first is deliberate and therefore criminal, as does the racist State of Israel and its organisations; the second is due to […]

The U.S. defeat and the Taliban’s return to power has created a debate within the international left. Will the end of U.S. occupation have positive or negative consequences for the workers and masses of the world? By Alejandro Iturbe Translated to English by Dolores Underwood An entire sector of the left takes the ideological and […]

What is the US blockade on Cuba? The economic blockade on Cuba is a measure planned by the imperialist administrations of Eisenhower (1953-1961) and Kennedy (1961-1963) to defeat the 1959 Cuban revolution. By Ricardo Ayala and Roberto Herrera In the final phase of the anti-dictatorial struggle against Fulgencio Batista, the 26th of July Movement (M-26) […]

Introduction Most of the left-wing currents put into question the strategy of the socialist revolution as well as the role of the industrial proletariat as the social subject of this revolution. That stand got stronger after the earthquake that shook the leftwing due to the overthrow of the world Stalinist apparatus in Eastern Europe.   In […]

On November 7, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled defendants could only be imprisoned after all appeals to higher courts had been exhausted. The decision changed its previous position, stating now that an arrest in this circumstance violates the citizen’s constitutional right, as his guilt could only be asserted after the “res judicata,” that is, after trial […]

The article of banker and economist André Lara Resende recently published  [Consenso e Contrassenso: deficit, dívida e previdência, Valor, 08/03/2019; read here in Portuguese] caused some “discomfort” in the team of investment fund executive and current Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes. A member of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s economic team and one of the […]

The crisis of Brazilian capitalism and the first 100 days of the Bolsonaro administration: in what measure can Paulo Guedes’s politics solve the problems of the working class?

The sickness and death of Hugo Chávez, doubtlessly one of the most important leaders of the Latin American and international politics of the 21st century, have brought back to the surface the discussion about the true meaning of him, his movement and his governments in Venezuela. By Alejandro Iturbe. Written in 2013.* This discussion has […]

The struggle for the emancipation of women has been intertwined from its beginnings with the socialist worker movement. Marx wrote in his book “The Holy Family” (1845) that “The degree of emancipation of woman is the natural measure of general emancipation”.

Like last year, the State Commission for 8M will again call it labour, students and consumer strike, and feminist care workers strike. By Laura R. As Corriente Roja we will make every effort for this state-wide and international journey of struggle to be a grand day of demonstrations and a general strike of the entire […]

The Netflix Company is reproducing a series produced by the Putin administration about Leon Trotsky’s life. It is a gross and unacceptable falsification of the history of the Great Russian revolutionary. The IWL-FI joins this manifesto and we call more organizations and figures to subscribe it as a way to reject the lies and slander […]

In continuation with the series of political-programmatic debates in the IWL-FI headquarters in Sao Paulo, we invite you all to participate in the debate about the situation in Nicaragua. To carry out this important polemic, we will have the presence of Breno Altman, of the Brazilian PT leadership and Javier Barrero, of the IWL-FI leadership. […]

There is a scandal against the soccer team of Croatia, accusing it of being Fascist, because one of its players, Domagaj Vida, after scoring two goals that left Russia out of the World Cup, dedicated the victory to Ukraine, a country that suffered the recent annexation of Crimea by Russia, and pro-Russian separatism in its […]