Autoworkers around the globe, who work for General Motors, Ford, Fiat/Chrysler and PSA Peugeot Citroën, coordinated efforts on May Day. Their demands listed in their leaflets were for “no plant closings or cutbacks in workers’ rights, reduction of working hours with no loss of pay and save our environment from the profit system.” (sindmetalsjc.org.br) Autoworkers in [...]
U.S.-based organizations swiftly denounced U.S. intervention against the election of President Nicolás Maduro Moro in Venezuela and mobilized. Weekend actions in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco demanded that the U.S. recognize the new Maduro government and end its subversion and destabilization of the Bolivarian Revolution. Violent attacks on health clinics [...]
Mexico City — The recent death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias became a central focus for the hundreds of progressives and revolutionaries from all over Latin America, about half from Mexico, and from every continent who gathered in Mexico City in mid-March for the 17th annual Seminar on “Parties and the New Society.” The [...]
The head of the U.S. Southern Command, Gen. John Kelly, who oversees U.S. forces in Latin America, is afraid that Nicolás Maduro will become the new Venezuelan president and that the Bolivarian Revolution will continue. That didn’t stop him from engaging in a little wishful thinking — or from slandering and implicitly threatening the Venezuelan [...]
It is with deep grief that the Cuban people absorbed the news of the death of Comandante President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias. Overwhelming grief is felt in each Cuban home for what this person represents for Cuba, Latin America and the rest of the world. Although we knew that for two years he was carrying [...]
Like a red tsunami, the Bolivarian people went to Caracas to say farewell to their leader, President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. Entire families, women and men of all ages, youth and children descended from the hills surrounding the capital, from the broad plains and from the mountains. From the darkest recesses of the country they [...]
The following statement was released on March 5, 2013. It was with profound and searing grief that our people and the Revolutionary Government learned about the decease of President Hugo Chávez Frías and are therefore preparing to pay a heartfelt and patriotic tribute to him, for he will go down in history as a Hero [...]
Workers World Party joins the Venezuelan people in grief over the loss of the great revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez. The death of a larger-than-life leader like Chávez is hard to take. Millions around the world will deeply mourn the loss of his vibrant personality, his warm embrace of the ordinary people, his courage and resoluteness [...]
New York — Pepe Palacios, a LGBTQ leader and activist from the resistance movement in Honduras, spoke at an event hosted by the Venezuelan Consulate here on Feb. 12. Palacios described the brutal government repression in Honduras, as well as the courageous, unified resistance of the Honduran people. The event was presented by the International [...]
Fred Goldstein, author of “Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Economic Crisis in the High-Tech Era,” will be speaking and signing copies of the book on Feb. 16, beginning at 2 p.m. at Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 65 Partition St., Saugerties, N.Y. The book explains that the economic crisis that began in August [...]
