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The chauvinism of the pseudo-left again serves to disarm the working class politically, facilitating the efforts of the fascist Milei to succeed where the earlier dictatorships failed.

Buenos Aires, Jan 31 (EFE). – The protests around the Argentine Congress during the debate on the Omnibus Law, the flagship project of President Javier Milei’s economic policy, ended in a confrontation between demostrators and the police on Wednesday evening. No serious injuries have been reported so far, but EFE was able to verify that …

In an attempt to contain mass social anger over fascistic President Javier Milei’s “shock therapy” measures, the Confederation of Argentine Workers (CGT) convoked the first general strike since 2019 on Wednesday.

While the Peronist union bureaucracy has been compelled to call for a national strike and mass demonstrations, it is merely seeking to channel opposition behind a defense of its own interests.

On Tuesday, Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo announced the first set of economic shock measures, which are supposed to set a new bar for attacks against living standards of workers everywhere.

US statesman’s encouragement of Pinochet’s coup in Chile and his backing for Argentina’s military dictatorship left lasting stain

The most important question raised by the Argentine elections is why mass outrage over conditions imposed by capitalism led to the election of the profit system’s most extreme right-wing defenders.

The vote was a massive repudiation of Peronism and its candidate, Economy Minister Massa, who was the face of social austerity and devaluations of the peso at the behest of the IMF and the corporate-financial oligarchy.

The Argentine electoral campaign is going for the K.O. after two rounds without many points. This is the panorama of the elections in Argentina two weeks before the elections.

On 1 May, International Workers’ Day, comrades of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) mobilised all over the globe, raising the standard of revolutionary Marxism. We raised our banners, flags and voices; and through dozens of speeches, and the distribution of thousands of newspapers, books, pamphlets and leaflets, we were able to connect Marxist ideas with more people than ever. Below is a taster of some of this activity.