Latin America
Latin America: A tale of two tours
Bush and Chávez vie for influence
Americas
Latin America
Latin America: Bush tour met ‘greeted’ with huge protest demonstrations
Brazilian military police violently attack anti-Bush protesters
Chile
Chile: New ‘Transantiago’ mass transport system fails
Students join local protests
Venezuela
Venezuela: Political crisis hits the Chávez government
Smaller coalition parties say no to joining the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela: Workers in strategic industries demonstrate against corruption and bureaucracy
Step up class struggle and democratisation of unions!
Costa Rica
Costa Rica: 100,000 march against CAFTA trade agreement
Next step general strike?
Bolivia
Bolivia: mass protests demand right-wing Prefect’s resignation
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 […]
Venezuela
Venezuela: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ by Tariq Ali
There is great interest in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, Eva Morales’ Bolivia and Fidel Castro’s Cuba among workers and young people, worldwide.
Venezuela
Venezuela: Chavez announces the nationalisaton of telecom and power
"We’re moving towards a socialist republic of Venezuela"
Chile
Chile: Dictator Pinochet dead
On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.