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Students join local protests

Smaller coalition parties say no to joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!

Next step general strike?

Two weeks of intense mobilisations, protests, and street blockades calling for the resignation of right-wing departmental Prefect (elected head of the regional administration), Manfred Reyes Villa, culminated in a popular assembly on January 16th in […]

There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.

"We’re moving towards a socialist republic of Venezuela"

On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.

Calderon government accused of state terrorism against the peoples of Oaxaca

Continued threat of counter-revolution

On Monday, November 27, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba’s municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police. 

Confrontations between police and demonstrators result in 48 wounded and 60 arrests

Right-wing opposition to left-leaning Bolivian president, Evo Morales, and his governing party, Movement towards Socialism (MAS), has increased dramatically in the last week as potential conflicts that have been brewing for months have recently come […]

"Se ve, se siente, tenemos presidente"

As Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, scraped home as president, thousands took to the streets of the capital, Managua, hooting car horns, sounding football klaxons and setting off fireworks to celebrate the victory.

‘Monument to the Revolution’, Mexico DF – that is our rendezvous for last Saturday morning, 9 am.

The US economy slowed down sharply before the mid-term elections.

Working class says no to war and neo-liberalism

25 deaths, 400 disappearances as the federal state clamps down to kill APPO

Solidarity appeal for Venezuelan fishermen in struggle

Police in civilian clothes shoot four people before moving in with armoured trucks and helicopters

Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.

This was the headline in the US Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition on 1-3 September.

US imperialism certainly expects ‘regime change’, not just in the government of Cuba but also in its social system.

Bush exploits tragedy to promote imperialism and repression

Massive election fraud stands while opposition gears up for more radical action

Juan Baretto threatens to seize golf greens

Thousands join massive encampments stretching for seven miles

Electricity workers have been without collective convention for a year and a half

Workers ‘self-management’ and socialism

A couple of days ago I was in the back of a battered old van, driving through the night to the city centre of Caracas.

"If there is no solution, there will be revolution"

But fight against cuts and privatisation must go on.

The Country threatens to erupt if the right steals another election

The Venezuelan vice president, Vincente Rangel, is heading the governments’ intentions to redefine its policies and attitude to the private sector.

Neo-liberal policies have been a catastrophe for the Latin American masses.

The United States is the strongest power the world has ever seen.

Central Santiago streets a ‘battleground’

Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer

400,000 on strike and occupying schools

Stop the repression of Trade Union rights in the pharmaceutical company RACE

We seek the support of the international workers’ movement

“A day in Baghdad” was how many journalists and commentators in Brazil described Sunday 14 May.

When Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced, on 1 May, a decree that ‘nationalised’ the oil and gas (the ‘hydrocarbons’) resources, he sent a shockwave around the world.

"The Spanish, the North Americans, the Europeans looted the tin, the silver and the natural resources. We should recognise that in 1937, under the leadership of the armed forces, petroleum was nationalised for the first […]

The horrendous assassination of three people in Caracas has been used by the opposition to Hugo Chavez as an excuse to start an offensive against the government. After the brutal murder of the Faddoul brothers […]

On Friday 7 April the CWI in Venezuela held a successful public meeting about the situation in France