Eyewitness report from NDP Federal Convention: Rank-and-file push leadership leftwards From 8th September to the 10th, the New Democratic Party (NDP) held its biennial federal convention in Québec City. The NDP’s youth wing, the New Democratic Youth of Canada (NDYC), also held its convention in Québec just prior to the federal convention.
Canada: Militant action wins! A critical look at Ontario politics Since the betrayal of the Ontario Days of Action in 1996-97, the movement in Ontario has been at one of its lowest levels. This is in contrast to the rest of Canada where most provinces are seeing some of the most militant labour actions since the 1970s. In both British Columbia and Québec, we have seen a burgeoning general strike movement while Newfoundland recently saw the largest strike in the province’s history.
The World Revolution and the Americas The Latin American Revolution is spreading like wildfire, posing a mortal threat to U.S. control over the region. The masses in Venezuela and Bolivia continue to push the process forward, and now Mexico has joined the conflagration, threatening U.S. imperialism right in its own backyard.
International days of solidarity with the Cuban Five have begun We received this report on the activities in the Ukraine in support of the Cuban “Miami Five”, which we are making available to our readers. It underlines the hypocrisy and double standards of the US Administration, which in words condemns “terrorism” but in practice keeps five Cubans in prison who were actually combating terrorism.
Mexico: 1 million strong Convention elects “legitimate government” A massive National Democratic Convention (CND) met in the centre of Mexico City on Saturday, September 16 and decided to elect “a legitimate government” with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as its president. It is clear that this is not simply a "normal" movement against electoral fraud but a movement that challenges bourgeois democracy itself and the institutions of capitalism.
Nuevo periódico marxista de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores El Militante Sin Fronteras es el nuevo periódico marxista de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores ("Workers International League" en inglés) . En esta epoca de crisis, guerras, revoluciónes y contra-revoluciónes, la necesidad de una perspectiva y un análisis marxista y de independencia de clase es más importante que nunca. En colaboración con nuestros compañeros del periódico Militante en México, la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores en los EEUU y el periodico Socialist...
Premiere Issue of El Militante Sin Fronteras now available! El Militante Sin Fronteras is the brand new Spanish-language paper of the Workers International League, produced in conjunction with Militante in Mexico. It is currently published 4 times a year. In it you will find the latest news and analysis from a Marxist perspective on national, international, labor, and theoretical issues.
Message of Solidarity with Mexican Marxists from Nigerian Comrades Marxists in Nigeria find inspiration in the struggle of the Mexican masses and the intervention of the Mexican Marxists.
Venezuela: Expropriations, reformism and elections – the contradictions are accumulating Recent events in Venezuela prove that the revolution is far from over. Venezuelan society is extremely unstable, and all kinds of tensions between the classes manifest themselves in peculiar ways. Inside the Bolivarian movement, different tendencies are beginning to crystallize, revealing that not everyone is fighting for the same aims and ideas.
Venezuela - The debate on expropriations and the upcoming elections The expropriation of two golf courses in Venezuela was met with enthusiasm by wide layers of the Bolivarian movement and a hysterical campaign on the part of the bourgeois. In order for the revolution to move forward these expropriations must continue and must be extended.
Chile's 9/11: Pinochet's coup There is another 9/11 to remember today, the Pinochet coup that overthrew the Allende government in Chile. In 1979 Alan Woods posed the question of who was behind Pinochet's coup. What interests was he defending? What were the policies of the Allende government and why despite all warnings was he unable to prevent the coup? Alan Woods had previously written an article in September 1971, two years before Pinochet's military coup, in which he warned against the threat of a military coup if the Popular Unity government failed to mobilise the masses and carry out a genuine socialist programme. Lessons of Chile 1973...
Five years after 9/11 We are reproducing two articles written by Alan Woods and Ted Grant at the time of the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001. They explained how this attack would be used by the ruling class to justify their plunder of the resources of the world and to clamp down on workers' rights. US Suicide Bombing - Terrorism Aids Reaction (September 11, 2001) The first war of the 21st century (September 21, 2001)
9/11 and the Functions of the ‘War on Terror’ Five years on from the attack on the Twin Towers we can see how it was used to justify a war for oil and a general clampdown on civil liberties all around the world. We have also seen revolutionary movements, particularly in Latin America which will inevitably cut through the fog of confusion the capitalist have attempted to throw up.
The revolutionary reawakening of Mexico The revolutionary mass movement that has been brought into being in Mexico by the electoral fraud perpetrated in the Presidential elections has reached a point where clearly the power is there for the taking. If there were a genuine revolutionary party at the head of the masses we would be on the eve of socialist revolution.
Mexico after the Electoral Tribunal's decision to confirm Calderon as President In spite of the revolutionary movement of the Mexican masses, the ruling class has decided to go ahead with its manoeuvres to impose its man on the Mexican workers and peasants. The masses cannot tolerate another period of right-wing government. They must prepare for power.