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Both candidates would lead far-right administrations committed to further cutting real wages, social spending, and corporate taxes, subordination to US imperialism and increasingly open forms of dictatorial rule.

Far from offering any insight into Trotsky’s immense legacy, the meeting represented a second political assassination of the great Russian revolutionary.

Reflecting on the riots and disturbances of the 1930s, I had written elsewhere (The 1935 Riots in St Vincent) “The disturbances of the 1930s in the Caribbean marked a significant turning point in the development of the British colonies. For St Vincent, as with other British colonies, it signalled a new phase that ended with the introduction of adult suffrage in 1951. The governor’s belated acknowledgement, at the time of …

Lance Carter gives an account and analysis of the hugely successful wildcat strike wave at mostly Japanese-owned auto factories in China, 2010.

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Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.

The readymade garment workers will boycott the national polls if the government fails to guarantee Tk 25,000 as their minimum wage by then, said speakers at a procession yesterday.

All candidates, presidential or otherwise, have suspended their campaign closing rallies for Sundays Simultaneous, Open, and Mandatory Primary (PASO) elections after Morena Domínguez, an 11-year-old girl, was killed Wednesday when motorbike robbers took her backpack at 7.20 am on her way to school in Lanús, a municipality in the province of Buenos Aires just south of the Argentine capital.

San Salvador, Jul 30 (Prensa Latina) Yesterday, two agents of the National Civil Police of El Salvador (PNC) were wounded during an ambush, informed an official source.

The May 18 “Federal March” in Buenos Aires joined the misnamed Left and Workers Front-Unity (FIT-U) with organizations that directly belong to the Fernandez government.