The IWL has released a special issue of International Courier in Arabic for the World Social Forum, recently held in Tunisia, on March 26-30.

Summoned by the historic Workers’ Central of Bolivia (COB), the First National Political Workers’ Central was held on 7 and 8 March 2013. That is how a new workers’ party (PT) was spawned conceived as a Political Instrument of the workers.

IWL-FI Statement on 8 March 

In the front of the civil war in Syria, in the demonstrations of Tahrir Square, in the strikes and marches in Europe, in the outraged uprising against rapes in India: there are thousands and thousands of working women breaking the frontiers of oppression, breaking the boosted divorce between women and politics and proving that there is room for women in revolutions.

This article was originally published in the IWL-FI’s magazine, International Courier nº 10

Shattered Illusions

Four years ago, the United States was in a growing financial crisis and still locked in wars in the Middle East with no real end in sight. Additionally, people were being kicked out from their homes, they were losing their jobs, and their benefits were being cut despite trillions being spent on corporate bailouts and wars. 

The left in the face of salary conflicts in the armed forces and security forces

In early October, a salary conflict between the non-commissioned officers and the grassroots of the Gendarmerie (militarised police at the frontiers) and the Prefecture (naval police in ports and rivers) on the one hand and Cristina Kirchner administration and the upper echelons of these forces on the other.

As from last 11th September, in the midst of the revolutionary process underway in the North Africa and the Middle East, an impressive wave of radicalised protests broke out engulfing the entire Arab world.

Government repressed the strike savagely and murdered 34 miners

Last 17th August, South African police exerted unrestrained repression against a 3 000-men strong demonstration of Marikana miners on strike (100km from Johannesburg) and murdered 34 strikers and injured 78 more. This event reminds us of the worst repressions of the times of the apartheid and makes us wonder, what has changed in South Africa since the end of that sinister political regime in 1994?

On the 22 June, the reactionary coup d´etat boosted by Paraguayan traditional right that pulled down Fernando Lugo by means of an express impeachment put up by the Parliament is part of a rich political process that submits fundamental lessons to world social movement and world left.