Americas

The Amazon rain forest in Brazil is battling massive fires. They are so extensive they can be seen from space. The Amazon has been called the ‘beating heart of the earth’ and the ‘lungs of […]

The decisive defeat of President Mauricio Macri in election primaries (PASO) in Argentina, something that virtually nobody anticipated, was a massive blow against the ruling elite. The right-wing neo-liberal, Macri, representing “Cambiemos”, was defeated by […]

Two weeks of almost continuous mass protests have forced the resignation of the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello’. Monday 22 July culminated in a general strike and the largest protests in the history of […]

Bernie Sanders’ 2016 bid for the presidency shook up US politics. Attracting hundreds of thousands of people around a radical programme, it showed the potential for a working-class-based alternative to the two main parties. Tony […]

The television, radio and Chilean press are permanently attacking and accusing the Mapuche people of “violent and terrorist” acts. All of this avalanche of false information is aimed at discrediting the mass mobilisations of the […]

For almost a month, the daily front page news for Canadians has been the story of political intrigue at the highest level of government involving, on the one hand, a major multinational, Montreal-based company ensnared […]

The collective wage agreements of more than half a million workers will expire on March 31, 2020. The various unions have to file their new applications by October 2019. So they are now beginning their […]

The social, political and economic crisis which is currently rocking Venezuela poses crucial questions and lessons for socialists and the international working class.