Origins and Perspectives of the Current Economic Crisis Eduardo Almeida Neto Member of the National Leadership of the United Socialist Worker’s Party (Brazil) and editor of Opinião Socialista The international economic crisis has returned to the headlines. Stocks are falling all over the world. Events that were once considered nearly impossible are occurring at a [...]
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We Are With the Libyan and Syrian Revolution, Down with Imperialist Intervention
Posted in ISL, IWL-FI, Middle East, tagged Arab Revolution, foreign intervention, Libya on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Arab revolution keeps expanding. Even in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, where dictatorial regimes have been abolished the processes keep developing. Its roots are in the 30 or 50 year-old struggle against dictatorships; the tremendous social contradictions between the wealth of the natural resources that contrasts to the poverty of most of the [...]
IWL May Day – Workers’ socialist and international struggle is more relevant today than ever.
Posted in International Courier, IWL-FI, Uncategorized on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
International Workers League Fourth International May Day 2011 May Day was born more than 120 years ago as a tribute to the ‘Martyrs of Chicago’ in the US. They were tried and sentenced to death for leading a fight against capitalist exploitation. Since 1889 the best way to express that tribute was to organise every [...]
Obama and Mubarak: what changes in Egypt?
Posted in ISL, IWL-FI on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Obama and Mubarak: what changes in Egypt? From: PortaldoPSTU | 14 Feb 2011 Watch U.S. President Barack Obama talk about Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak on June 2009. Compare it to Obama’s speech after the Egyptian Revolution that forced Mubarak out. Egypt is a strategic-ally to the U.S. and Israel, one of the Countries that receive the biggest military aid from [...]
Reasons for Fusion in Argentina
Posted in Argentina, IWL-FI on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Committee for the FOS-COI Merger has been constituted Written by FOS and COI – Argentina Monday, 27 September 2010 StatementTaking into consideration agreements as to the policies, programmes and methods, the leaderships of the FOS (Frente Obrero Socialista) and the COI (Corriente Obrera Internacionalista), we have decided to found a Committee for the Merger, in [...]
From the Students of Our Italian Party
Posted in IWL-FI on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear comrades In Italy a big movement of students and teachers is in struggle against a “reform” of the Italian University that is very similar to the one that the English Government wants to introduce in England. Like in England, the Italian Government wants to change the public University into a private one. If the [...]
Warmest greeting to British students who refuse to pay for the crisis that great business has caused.
Posted in Argentina, Britain on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the southern cone of Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, etc) students have fought many battles. Some were won, some were lost, others are still going on. At present this is summer holidays here, so occupations of schools and universities have for a while faded away but this does not mean students have returned to [...]
Greetings from Argentine Students to the British Student movement
Posted in Argentina, IWL-FI, Latin America, Uncategorized on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’re aware of the struggle English students are in right now, and we send our greetings and all our support, as it has been an example for us, showing us the way we must follow to get what we demand for. The struggle had a great impact on us, now that we have had a [...]
The farce of the pacification of Rio de Janeiro State
Posted in Brazil, IWL-FI, Latin America on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have been asked recently for material on the police action in Rio, here is an article from our section in Brazil, PSTU. Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing a civil war, a state of siege, which exposes the demagogy and incompetence of the re-elected governor Sergio Cabral (PMDB) and his subordinates. To [...]
General Strike in Portugal
Posted in IWL-FI on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Flights stopped, ports disrupted, train and bus services, schools and factories shut down as 80 per cent of Portuguese workers held a general strike on 24 November to protest against proposed wage cuts and tax increases. “To defeat the austerity plans, it is necessary that our struggle is increasingly effective and stronger – with demonstrations [...]
