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By José Miguel Gándara Carretero- From La Marx Spain Yolanda González Martín was murdered by fascist elements of Francoism during the period known in our country as "the transition", that is, the transition phase from the Franco dictatorship to the bourgeois democratic regime that was the result of the Moncloa Pact between the years 1975 and 1982. Yolanda was murdered on February 1, 1980 and was a member of the Socialist Party of the United States. Workers (PST) of Spain, the party that was part of the current international Trotskyism headed by Nahuel Moreno. Yolanda's death resonates to this day in our country as a symbol and emblem of the pending struggle for the trial and punishment of those responsible for the genocide perpetrated by the Franco's dictatorship in our country. A cr...

La Marx International A new revolution of the workers and the people is sweeping through Greece with the outbreak of the massive and historic rallies that took place on February 28, 2025, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Tempi train accident in which 57 people died. The mobilizations against the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotákis and the New Democracy Party are of historic proportions with more than 260 cities and towns across the country, and in more than 125 cities abroad. Millions of people mobilized in the largest strike rallies in Greece's modern history, with more than 1 million people in Greece, more than 300,000 in Thessaloniki; and hundreds of thousands more in the other cities of the country. The mass mobilizations took place in the framewor...

La Marx International When Trump negotiates with Putin, Maduro, or Netanyahu, bourgeois opinionologists are left speechless. "Trump shakes the world order", "Trump revolutionises global politics", "Trump breaks with Europe and breaks NATO" are some of the comments of capitalist analysts astonished by Donald Trump's policy. The reformist left is speechless. When Trump publicly quarrels with Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House, and opens the "weekend crisis" with Ukraine, bourgeois analysts are shocked: "This is new, Trump kicks the board!" say the charlatans of the media and the 99% of the global left. organized around the "Progressive International" policy. However, for Marxists, Trump's policy is nothing new. It is the old policy of U.S. imperialism. T...

*18 February 2025* *SAFTU Statement on the Fourth Quarter 2024 Labour Force Survey - 18 February 2025* The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes with deep concern the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for Q4 2024, released today by Statistics South Africa. The data confirms what SAFTU has consistently warned: there is nothing to celebrate. The expanded unemployment rate remains catastrophically high at 41.9%, indicating no significant improvement in the dire jobs crisis. Even more troubling is that six out of nine provinces continue to suffer unemployment rates above 40%. This reinforces the deep regional inequalities and the failure of economic policies to address the desperate conditions facing millions of workers and job seekers across the country. ...

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and throw myself into the world of a book. It does not matter if it is a novel or a history book, as long as the author is able to conjure up a world that transports me from the flood of brutalities to an island of imagination. In recent months, I have been reading more and more novels – including Japanese crime fiction, a notable favourite – and finding in them characters with whom I can sometimes laugh and sometimes frown in bewilderment. Madness is not new to our world. It has been there before. I have before me Seichō Matsumoto’s Ten to Sen (Points and Lines, 1958) and Suna n...

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Lost in a colonial fog of inferiority, writers across Asia imagined a world that was beyond the reach of colonialism’s devastation. In 1835, Kylas Chunder Dutt (1817–1859) wrote a remarkable story called ‘A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945’; the story, published in The Calcutta Literary Gazette, came out when the great French science fiction novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905) was only seven years old. Dutt’s account is not strictly science fiction, but largely futuristic. The eighteen-year-old opened his story with this line: ‘The people of India and particularly those of the metropolis had been subject for the last fifty years to every species of subaltern oppression. … With the rap...

On the 31st January 2025 Maduro's dictadorship sealed an agreement with Richard Grenell, representative of the new U.S. government of Donald Trump, by which, instead of continuing to exploit venezuelan oil, Trump wll support the dictasdorship. the workers and people of Venezuela together with the peoples of the world we must reject this sell- out and imperialist agreement made by the dictadorship for the benefit of the millonaire owners of the multinationals imperialist. While the opposition representative of the democratic unity roundtable (MUD) the opposition, María Corina Machado, is silent about the agreement, we denounce the chavismo of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( in Spanish, PSUV) and the 99% of the world left, the socialdemocrats, stalinists, former guerrillas and b...