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...]
CHILE: WHICH WAY FORWARD?
TASKS OF THE BRAZILIAN LEFT
LINK TO MEETING RECORDING HERE A WIN DISCUSSION, FEBRUARY 2024. Events in Brazil have been closely followed by socialists and working-class activists over recent decades. The rise of the Workers’ Party and the election of Lula to government created great expectations. When these were disappointed, this led to the rise of Bolsonaro and the far right. Now Lula and the Workers’ Party are back … [Read more...]
The Lessons of Chile
THE LESSONS OF CHILE - YouTube A WIN meeting, October 2023. It is half a century since the military coup in Chile – a landmark defeat which shocked the labour movement worldwide. A popular socialist government was overthrown; a democratically elected president murdered; tens of thousands of workers and left activists rounded up, incarcerated, tortured, summarily executed. The new dictatorship … [Read more...]
Counter Revolution in Chile
By Roger Silverman Image - Library of the Chilean National Congress - Attribution 3.0 Chile (CC BY 3.0 CL) Fifty years ago this month, on September 11, 1973, a military coup took place in Chile, putting a committee (‘junta’) of generals in power, led by General Pinochet. The coup resulted in the bombing of the presidential palace and the subsequent murder of the president, Salvador … [Read more...]
PERU: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
A Workers’ International Network meeting - February 2023 (35) PERU: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES A Workers’ International Network Discussion - FEB 23 - YouTube Peru has been in the grip of a rebellion since last December, of which the southern Andean regions have been in the forefront. This movement has been brutally repressed by the government of Dina Boluarte, Peru’s sixth president in five … [Read more...]