Argentina: ofensiva Macrista, ofensiva capitalista La ofensiva desatada por la gestión Macri no encuentra precedentes en la historia Argentina. Muchos hacen hincapié que la actual crisis encuentra su similitud de la década de los ’90 cuando la ofensiva neoliberal campeaba el planeta.
Argentina: En el camino de las elecciones legislativas En medio del jolgorio electoral del partido gobernante, Cambiemos, la aparición de un cuerpo en las aguas del río Chubut que podría ser el de Santiago Maldonado, recrudeció con virulencia el tema de la desaparición forzada de Santiago. El último trayecto de la campaña electoral quedó así, empantanado para los partidos del régimen ante la conmoción de la mayoría del país por esta noticia.
Exitosa gira de Alan Woods en Argentina En el marco de la conmemoración del aniversario de los 100 años de la Revolución de Octubre, el camarada Alan Woods ofreció una serie de charlas en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) y Rosario.
Alan Woods tours Latin America: Marxism makes waves Editor of marxist.com, Alan Woods, has begun a speaking tour of Latin America with meetings organized by Marxists in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. The tour will continue in November with a series of meetings in Mexico City, organised by Esteban Volkov (Trotsky’s grandson) and the Trotsky Museum.
Argentina: forcible disappearance of Santiago Maldonado puts Macri government against the ropes On 1 August the Argentinian social activist Santiago Maldonado was abducted by the National Gendarmerie and has not been seen since. This case is linked to the repression of the land rights movement of the Mapuche indigenous people. It is part of a wider pattern of repression and attacks on social, economic and trade union rights carried out by the right-wing government of Macri.
Argentina: Angry workers force trade union leaders to flee from rally On April 28 we saw a massive general strike in Brazil, the first in over twenty years, which we reported on, but before this, in Argentina there were dramatic events during a mass trade union rally where the union leaders were booed and shouted down and had to escape the wrath of the workers, escorted by security guards - “unprecedented” for a trade union rally in Argentina. The reason for the anger was the refusal of the leaders to fix the date for a general strike. In both Brazil and Argentina the working class is on the move. Here we provide a report from our comrades in Argentina.
National and International Campaign to Support the New Subway Workers Independent Union in Buenos Aires, Argentina More than a year since its formal application to the Labour Ministry, the new subway workers independent union, having not received an answer from the government, is appealing for international solidarity to demand the Labour Ministry to fulfill its administrative function to register this new, democratically created union.
Argentina: First victory of the IMPA occupied factory The workers at IMPA occupied factory in Argentina have won a first victory. The threat of immediate eviction has been lifted.
Argentina: Zanon belongs to the workers "After 9 years of struggle we have achieved the definitive expropriation of our factory."
Argentina: They’ve made history – Workers will be owners of Ceramica Zanón It would seem that the force of the wind, which was blowing at more than 60 km/hr in the Neuquén capital, was an omen of what was to come. 26 deputies supported the definitive expropriation and this sealed the declaration that the factory was of public interest and the transfer of Cerámica Zanon to the Fasinpat cooperative.
Argentina: International solidarity appeal – Stop the eviction of IMPA – a factory under workers’ control We are publishing here an appeal we have received from the workers at IMPA, an occupied factory in Argentina, against their possible eviction. We ask all our readers to circulate it widely and to make sure that resolutions are sent and signed by as many trade unionists, workers and students as possible.
Argentina: Expulsion of Buenos Aires metro shop stewards suspended We have just received the news that the meeting the trade union bureaucracy of UTA had called on September 2nd with the aim of expelling the shop stewards representing the Buenos Aires Metro workers has been suspended.
Argentina: Subway workers of Buenos Aires reclaim union democracy and demand an end to persecution Workers in the subways are facing an extremely grave situation: the Committee for Ethics of the Transit Workers Union of Argentina has decided to revoke the mandate of our delegates and expel them from the trade union organisation. We ask workers, social organisations, unions and political parties to send us their support and solidarity.
Balance sheet of the Argentine presidential elections: A helpless right and a left to be built Due to the lack of a genuine left alternative in Argentina, the masses have voted for Cristina de Kirchner, who will continue the policies of her husband, balancing between the classes while defending the common interests of the capitalists and multinational companies. However, owing to the deep contradictions in Argentine society, this cannot last forever.
The Argentine Revolution On the 30th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, we remind you of Ted Grant's article on the Argentine Revolution first published in July 1973. As he predicted back then, “The capitalists having clutched the straw of Peronism, will turn to the stick of the generals once again.” This unfortunately is what happened a few years later with another military coup. Today’s activists must study the mistakes of the movement in the past in order not to repeat them today.
