By Rebecca Anderson Trump’s second term has brought into sharp focus the fact that progressive changes that seemed irreversible can be reversed, sometimes with the stroke of a Sharpie marker pen. The accumulation of rights for women and other oppressed groups is always presented as a slow but steady march from the vote to equal […]

An analysis of the political crisis in Argentina and the strategy of the far left

Agentina's new right-wing president has announced an unprecedented attack on the working class and oppressed.

Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas.

The Workers Left Front – Unity (FIT-U), a coalition made up of four Trotskyist organisations, has emerged as the country’s third largest political force in Argentina.

The Latin American movement against misogynist violence ihas brought millions of women into the streets.

By KD Tait In recent elections in 2013, the Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores (Left and Workers’ Front, FIT), a coalition of Trotskyist groups, won more than a million votes, or 5.12 per cent.  Christian Castillo, a member of the Partido de los Trabajadores Socialista (PTS), who was elected as a representative of […]

    By Christian Gebhardt After Argentina’s “revolutionary days” in December 2001 – the driving from power in quick succession of two presidents, the blockades by unemployed workers, and the occupation of over 200 companies by their workers – the mass movement was eventually contained by the ruling class – with a little help from […]

Thirty years on from the imperialist adventure against Argentina that became known as the Falklands War, the British establishment prepares – amid renewed tensions over the status of the islands properly called the Malvinas – to celebrate their subjugation of the semi-colonial country that dared to challenge them.   In this reprint of a Workers […]