WIN discussion January 2025. See it HERE. The violent kidnapping of Venezuela's president Maduro by US special forces, following the election victories of hard right parties in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, brings nearer a recapture of the entire sub-continent by direct agents of US imperialism. Trump has declared a return to the "Monroe doctrine" – a reassertion of total US domination of the … [Read more...]
Venezuela shows 2026 will be a “wild” year
The original intention of this editorial comment was to make a simple point: that politics in 2026 will more volatile and unpredictable than ever before. But no sooner had a draft been written, than events provided a violent confirmation of that basic idea. On his Substack blog, US journalist, Seymour Hersh asked “What chaos will Trump unleash in 2026?” Hours later, he had his answer. On … [Read more...]
The Struggle in Defence of Venezuela
As published in 'The Struggle' journal. Evidently, piracy and murder are not enough for Trump and the circus of alcoholics and degenerates around him. The barbaric assault on Caracas and kidnap of the President of Venezuela is one more crime in the long list of violence America has carried out against the people of Latin America over the last 300 years. News is still coming out of Venezuela, … [Read more...]
The Nobel Peace Lie: Venezuela and the Endless Cycle of Imperial Plunder
by Alan Browne The script is familiar, yet the stage is newly dressed. The recent reinstatement of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, coupled with the Western media’s anointing of opposition figure María Corina Machado as a democratic savior, is not a break from history, but a direct continuation of it. Machado, touted as a future leader should the Maduro government fall, has … [Read more...]
ARGENTINA: FAR RIGHT IN POWER
WIN discussion June 2025. See HERE. South America’s second biggest country Argentina has undergone an exceptionally unstable succession of political upheavals, from the regime of the populist Peron to guerrilla insurgency, military dictatorship, war with Britain, continuing political and economic turmoil, and for the last 18 months the rule of the far-right president Javier Milei. In a follow-up … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN ARGENTINA
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. South America’s second largest economy Argentina has witnessed a kaleidoscopic variety of political upheavals: Juan Peron’s populist-bonapartist regime, a guerrilla insurgency, a brutal military dictatorship, a “dirty war” costing 30,000 lives, defeat in the Falklands war, continuing turmoil and instability, and since October 2023 the rule of … [Read more...]
The fascist threat is becoming clearer as Milei calls for the creation of the Brown International!
by Yorgos Mitralias “It is our moral duty to defend the legacy of our western civilisation. The West is in danger...We must stand together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world. We could call ourselves a right-wing international, a network of mutual assistance made up of all those interested in spreading the ideas of freedom around the world". This call for the … [Read more...]
Counter-revolution in Chile by Roger Silverman
We have passed the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup – an event that shocked worker activists the world over. The Junta surrounded mines and factories with tanks. Sickening descriptions were given by eye-witnesses of sadistic beatings and tortures. Tens of thousands were executed: summarily shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and tortured to death, or hurled into the sea from helicopters. Witnesses … [Read more...]
WIN ARCHIVE LIBRARY – THE LESSONS OF CHILE
by Roger Silverman - 11th September 2023. It is the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean coup – an event that shocked worker activists the world over. The Junta surrounded mines and factories with tanks. Sickening descriptions were given by eye-witnesses of sadistic beatings and tortures. Tens of thousands were executed: summarily shot, bludgeoned, mutilated and tortured to death, or hurled … [Read more...]
Bolivia: We condemn the failed coup attempt -Declaration of the International Socialist League
“…This coup attempt in Bolivia is part of the complex international situation of growing polarization, in which imperialism and its complicit bourgeoisies seek authoritarian forms of government to be able to impose their harsh plans of austerity and plundering.” On Monday, June 24, the general commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces, Juan José Zúñiga, in a public interview, threatened to … [Read more...]