El Salvador

By Daniel Sugasti As expected, on February 4, Nayib Bukele was re-elected president of El Salvador. At the height of his popularity, the presidential candidate garnered 85% of the votes. The regime’s party, Nuevas Ideas, won 54 of the 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. For its part, the fragmented bourgeois opposition received a real […]

By Plataforma de la Clase Trabajadora, El Salvador “I had an excellent meeting with Nayib Bukele. We talked about promoting foreign investment in El Salvador”- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols Now I’m going to hit you, but it won’t hurt. Now it’s your turn… They pretend they are fighting, that’s how we might […]

By: Minerva Solano and Diana Herrero Villareal  Beatriz’s case  Beatriz was a Salvadoran woman whose case shocked the world. At 21, Beatriz, who suffered from lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, became pregnant. The fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, meaning it would not survive. Given Beatriz’s health conditions, the termination of her pregnancy became a fight against […]

“El Salvador is the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender“, this headline was spread by world media in September last year. By: Working Class Platform (PCT) of El Salvador The “millennial” president Nayib Bukele would impose this decision presenting it as the economic solution that would get the country out […]

El Salvador is still going through a violent process in which gang groups are terrorizing the population. Despite the “security plans” with millions in investments, violence in the country continues as before. Truces between the government and these groups have not prevented the continued deaths of workers. By PCT – El Salvador With more than […]

Authored by the Costa Rican, Honduran, and El Salvadoran sections of the IWL-FI (PT LIT-CI, PST LIT-CI, PCT LIT-CI) Translated by Dolores Underwood On Sunday, November 7th, the people of Nicaragua observed an electoral fraud as, once again, the dictatorship remained in the hands of the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) with Daniel Ortega and […]

In the debates on the current Cuban situation, a majority sector of the left (defenders of the current Castro regime and its policies) claims that the main problem is the country’s “isolation”. This is partially true with regard to the commercial and financial U.S. imperialist blockade. However, they hide the fact that it was Fidel […]

In El Salvador, as in many countries of the world, attacks on the working class are increasing in the context of the COVID19 pandemic . We are seeing how the response of the working masses is increasingly decisive, and the rebellion is growing, the natural bodies called upon to fight at this juncture are the […]

The picture of the Salvadoran Óscar Ramírez and his daughter, Angie, both lifeless and locked in an embrace on the banks of Rio Grande (Río Bravo in Mexico) caused alarm and anger around the world. As usual in moments of collective pain, several politicians came out to express their solidarity with the family of the […]

In the last decade, policies against workers established by imperialism, and applied by its puppet governments, are facing resistance from the peoples of Central America. Such policies were introduced to bring a solution to the economic crisis and colonization of natural resources by foreign companies.

Working Class’ Platform – PCT El Salvador, Section of the IWL-FI, before the distorted and hypocrite public stand of the FMLN regarding the events in the sister-land of Nicaragua, manifest the following to the public opinion:

Working Class’ Platform – PCT El Salvador, Section of the IWL-FI, before the distorted and hypocrite public stand of the FMLN regarding the events in the sister-land of Nicaragua, manifest the following to the public opinion:

The Socialist Workers Unity (UST) has been postulated the nonpartisan candidacies of the teacher Ernesto Garcia and Elba Argueta for representatives by the San Salvador department.

  When we refer to imperialism, what we mean is our concept of it, which is that which Lenin formulated, which we believe to absolutely apply presently to the relationship of domination that the United States and the European Union sustain with countries like ours.

The five organizations’ merger   The currently known Front Farabundo Marti for National Liberation (FMLN) was, in the 1980s, a military political organization, whose origin dates from the time of great upheaval in our country. Because of the 10 October 1980 facts, the five strongest guerilla and political organizations joined in only one organization to fight […]