Argentina

In a historical result for the so called " hard left ", the Left Front and the Workers (FIT) far exceeded the results obtained in primary elections, for senators and representatives, held in August this year.  It got more than a million votes nationwide, a workbench with four national...

Surprise and amazement divided into equal parts. There wasn’t any prognostic or betting on him. The media started celebrating, skeptical yet, the election of the "Argentinean Pope." Then it was remembered that in the 2005 election he had been the top two among the Cardinals, after the German Ratzinger,...

The event at the Unione Benevolenza hall in Buenos Aires on 1 December was a day worthy to be written in the history book. “This a traditional Argentine working class area” said Alicia Sagra, Argentine trotskyist leader who led the commemoration. After showing a video on the history of...

Ceremony on December 1st touched everyone present and those who have followed the ceremony over the Internet It was a day worthy to be written in the book of history. Not only in the history of the Workers International League, but all the more than 800 people crammed into the...

Reject the threats of Spanish and European imperialism. Not a single penny to the looters! Nationalizeall the hydrocarbonswithout any payment! In face of the Argentine government measures, the company Repsol YPF, the Spanish government and his King, along with the European Economic Community have threatened our country with punishments and sanctions. We...

The underground workers’ trade union (AGTSyP) informed us that a multi-sector front, consisting  of social movements, students, organizations in defence of consumers, trade unions and political parties has been formed to repudiate the increase of the underground fares and are demanding a public audience NOW! Activists of the “multi-sector”...

According to witnesses, on Friday evening, a group of 5 or 6 armed people broke into the office of the PSTU (United Socialist Workers’ Party) in the Comodoro Rivadavia city. After producing disorder and breakages, having painted graffiti on the walls, they tried to set fire to the premises....

A local humorist said that this was a really marvellous country because even the country’s left – proud as they are of being non-believers - could produce miracles as has become obvious in the electoral results. To make his point stronger, he mentioned two cases: 1) That the Left, weak,...

The case of Sonia Colman, a typical example of “easy trigger”, affected us directly for Sonia and her husband Antonio had been militants in our trend for over 20 years. What follows are quotations from an article in our paper, Avanzada Socialista. “23 December 2007, Sonia Colman was assassinated...

Latin America often regarded as part of the ‘Third World’ has often been in the headlines because of the criminal dictatorships ruling there. In Argentina, the last episode of such genocide lasted from March 1976 until 1983 and the officially admitted toll of missing people is 30,000. This does...