History

By Eduardo Almeida Neto Originally published in 201  in the special edition tribute on the 30th anniversary of his death, from Conversations with Nahuel Moreno. Buenos Aires, one afternoon in October 1985. In a discreet two-story house across from Centenario Park, the headquarters of the IWL were functioning. I was in the International Secretariat working […]

Several Palestinian parties have worked for the liberation of Palestine, therefore it is necessary to discuss the history of Palestinian resistance to understand the role of each organization. By Fabio Bosco The main Palestinian party is called Al-Fatah. Founded in 1958 by a group of young Palestinians including Yasser Arafat, the party stood for the […]

The recent massacre carried out by Israel in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank, has once again shown the violent and aggressive character of Israel in Palestine and in its treatment of Palestinians. It has also shown that the Palestinian people, especially the youth, do not give up and continue to […]

Nahuel Moreno said that Hugo Blanco was the greatest Trotskyist mass leader after Trotsky. And to this day this is still true. He was the undisputed leader of the Peruvian agrarian revolution, which was centered in the province of La Convención in the 1960s [1]. Throughout that process, he was part of our current and […]

On March 20, 2003, a military coalition led by the U.S. invaded Iraq. In a short time, it overthrew the Iraqi political regime of President Saddam Hussein on the grounds that he “supported international ‘terrorism’ and possessed ‘weapons of mass destruction’ for that purpose.” A new government was installed in his place that was supported […]

The European working class is reacting against the deterioration in its standard of living. The successive strikes in England, those in Italy, the mega-strike that paralyzed transport in Germany, and perhaps most importantly, the extraordinary confrontation that French workers are leading against the increase in the retirement age, disprove the theories that the working class, […]

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 […]

In previous articles of this series, we discussed the national struggles of colonial and semi-colonial peoples, particularly on the African continent, including the creation of nationalist and pan-Africanist movements, and the intervention of Stalinist organizations which, despite changes in political position, always aimed at class conciliation and capitulation to imperialism. By: Américo Gomes This in […]

Amid this year’s Independence Bicentennial celebrations, the mainstream media and even some revisionist historians are trying to present a version of Brazilian history that does not correspond to the real facts. By Jeferson Choma  TV series, soap operas, and reports with “specialists” seek to glamorize a decadent and archaic monarchy, to humanize a libertine and […]

No trade unionist who seriously studies the political and industrial scene at the beginning of the 1980s and compares it with today can fail to draw the conclusion that the strength of the Thatcher Government and its capitalist policies has been solely due to the abysmal capitulations of the leadership of the trade unions and […]

The Iranian revolution was extraordinary and will pass into history as one of the most important witnessed by humanity. By: Marcos Margarido The early 1970s saw the first simultaneous and generalised recession in the imperialist countries in the post-Second World War. The 20 years of economic boom which had begun around 1950 had come to […]

The genocide carried out by the Belgian king resulted in the death of eight to ten million Congolese. By Cesar Neto Belgium is a small country, slightly larger than El Salvador and about half the size of Costa Rica. Its eleven million inhabitants enjoy living in the 19th best country for quality of life, while […]

The 49th anniversary of the 1973 civil-military coup reactivates a pending debate on the most complex period of our recent history. By Paz Ibarra / MIT – CHILE It has two faces. One, the rich experience of organisation of the Chilean workers’, popular and peasant movement accumulated in the previous decades and which made Allende’s […]

By Esat Erdoğan When Lev Davidovich Bronstein, known as Trotsky, was assassinated in Mexico on August 21, 1940, by Stalin’s agent Ramon Mercader, he left behind an enormous library and legacy of socialist revolution. He was one of the leaders of the age of revolutions, orienting the revolutionary waves of the uprising masses. Trotsky accompanied […]

By Murat Yakın Even if they get hit and fall in every siege, they are adventurous and they never die… Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, died while attacked at his home in Mexico where he lived in exile on August 20, 1940. Just before the final blow, he had already narrowly avoided […]

Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, President of the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died yesterday in Moscow aged 91. By Alexander Iturbe Western media pay tribute to him as “one of the most important men in world history at the end of the 20th century“. In Russia and within the former USSR, […]