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Venezuelan politics professor Steve Ellner examines Maduro's economic policies and the contradictions that have arisen among the left.

Steve Ellner — The war on Venezuela, along with other unfavorable conditions, lent itself to Maduro’s defensive strategy. However, that approach was not without a major risk.

Tijuana Was the Florence of a Peculiar Art Renaissance. But These Days in This Radically Changed City, It's Tough to Find a Decent 'Velvis.'

(Archived document, may contain errors) 137 April 10, 1981 EL SALVADOR'S MARXIST REVOLUTION INTRODUCTION Within the last few months, the events in El Salvador have come to the forefront of American foreign policy. Since the bloodless coup in October 1979, which oust ed General Romero and many of the leaders of the armed forces, El Salvador has undergone an escalation of violence from Marxist and rightist groups result ing in approximately 10,000 deaths during 19

Under the microscope minimum wage, outstanding pensions, retroactive pensions and productivity bonuses of civil servants – “Prudence and self-restraint” in its report recommends the IMF

Under the microscope minimum wage, outstanding pensions, retroactive pensions and productivity bonuses of civil servants – “Prudence and self-restraint” in its report recommends the IMF

The Agenda and texts of the Reports presented to the assembly of delegates representing approximately 27,000 workers at the First (official) Congress of the National Confederation of Labor, held in Barcelona in 1911, providing a glimpse of the doctrinal spectrum represented by the founders of the CNT and the most urgent concerns of the membership of the new organization, including the “rights and duties” of disabled members of the CNT, the creation of rationalist schools, the formation of i...

An essay on the relative influence exercised by the First International (the Spanish Regional Federation of the IWA), the Second International, French revolutionary syndicalism (the CGT and the Bourses du Travail), and Italian syndicalism (the USI), respectively, on the origin and development of Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, with extensive discussion of the internal debates that took place between 1880 and 1920 in the European anarchist milieu on the general strike and the nature and purpose of t...

KARACHI: Speakers at a meeting have stressed that a joint platform at national level is necessary to safeguard workers’ rights and movement because the health and safety conditions at factories...

The Brazilian ruling class is unwilling and incapable of mounting any struggle against the deadly pandemic International Committee of the Fourth International . 2021 International May Day Online Rally held by the World Socialist Web Site and the Speech delivered by Tomas Castanheira to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally Greetings from Brazil to this international May Day rally, which represents the development of the only genuine answer of the global working class to the historic cr...