Internationalist Group -- Reforge the Fourth International!

Mobilize the Workers To Defeat the Putsch!
Honduras: Coup d’État in the Maquiladora Republic
Yankee Imperialism, Hands Off!
For a Federation of Workers Republics of Central America!
In the early morning of Sunday, June 28, some 200 soldiers of the Honduran army kidnapped the president of the republic, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, at gunpoint and expelled him from the country. This first coup of the presidency of Barack Obama awakened fears of a return to the “years of blood,” when Honduras served as a launching pad for Nicaraguan contras and Salvadoran death squads which sowed terror throughout Central America. The overthrow was opposed by virtually every international governmental organization, the U.S. secretary of stated claimed she condemned it, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez vowed to overthrow the usurpers, but the military mutineers are still in power. Revolutionary Marxists stress that to defeat the coup we can only count on mobilizing the working people, in Honduras as well as throughout Central America, in Mexico and the rest of the continent. Honduras: Coup d’État in the Maquiladora Republic (29 June 2009)

For Workers Revolution Against the Islamic Dictatorship!
Mass Protests Rock Iran:
No to All Wings of the Mullah Regime!
U.S. Imperialism Hands Off!

For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative “populist” government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. Mass Protests Rock Iran: No to All Wings of the Mullah Regime (23 June 2009)

Obama/Democrats’ Conciliation Emboldens Reactionaries
Assassination of Courageous Doctor in Wichita:
War on Abortion Rights Escalates
Mobilize to Defend the Clinics!
Abolish All Restrictions – For Free Abortion on Demand!

The vile murder of the courageous abortion doctor George Tiller marks an escalation of the war on women’s right to abortion. The constitutional protection hangs by a thread – a single vote in the Supreme Court. The “god squads” are in a frenzy, harassing women patients and abortion providers at the clinics. The reaction of the bourgeois feminists has been to look to the Democratic Party and the government of Barack Obama in the White House. Yet the Democrats are not allies but enemies of women’s rights. Obama opposes the late-term abortions that Dr. Tiller provided while seeking “common ground” with the Bible-thumping bigots who harbor the abortion doctor killers. And the police, from local cops to the FBI, give a free pass to the assassins, whom they know well. Assassination in Wichita – War on Abortion Rights Escalates (11 June 2009)

NYC Labor: Scab Cookies Are “Too Hot to Handle”!
Mobilize New York Unions’ Power to Win the Stella D'Oro Strike!

The struggle of the bakery workers at the Stella d’Oro cookie factory in the Bronx, on strike since last August 15, has reverberated through New York City labor. The company’s use of low-paid scab labor to run the struck factory is a threat to unions throughout the city. But paper resolutions expressing fine sentiments of labor solidarity are not enough. The fact is, NYC union officialdom has not actually done anything to use its power to win the strike. If it had, the strike would have ended in a victory months ago. We need to massively mobilize NYC labor in action to beat the union-busters at Stella D’Oro! Mobilize New York Unions’ Power to Win the Stella D'Oro Strike! (30 May 2009)

“Theoretical” Justification for Abstentionism, and Tailing After the PRD
Flim Flam from the GEM on Workers Control
In a curious “polemic” titled “Menshevik Symptomology,” the Grupo Espartaquista de México continues its customary practice consisting of stringing together scholastic arguments adorned with amalgams and sophistry, all in order to justify its opportunist and tailist policies. In practice it puts forth policies which mimic those of the bourgeois-nationalist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and its former presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It doesn’t call for any workers action against the step-by-step privatization of the state oil company Pemex in the counterreform law of the Calderón government, and polemicizes against our call for workers control. These anti-dialectical “theoreticians” claim that this slogan of the Transitional Program can only be applied in a revolutionary situation. Yet they quote an article by Leon Trotsky saying the exact opposite of what they claim. Nowhere in its writings about Mexico and the global crisis of the capitalist economy does the GEM present a program of transitional demands to serve as a bridge between the present struggles of the working class and socialist revolution. Flim Flam from the GEM on Workers Control (28 May 2008)

From the Current Issue

The Internationalist No. 28
(March-April 2009)
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Bring Down the Bourgeoisie Through Workers Revolution!
World Capitalism Plunges
The global economic crisis continues to deepen, month after month. With the financial crisis that exploded in September 2008, the international credit system effectively froze. In the past five months, there has been a sharp drop in industrial production, investments, exports, consumer spending, construction and just about every other major indicator of economic activity in virtually every country of the capitalist world. In the U.S, this is already be the longest recession since World War II, and it’s not ending any time soon. In short, the recession is rapidly becoming a depression, although the capitalist rulers don’t want to say so because they fear that would set off an even worse panic. The underlying issue behind both the waves of financial speculation and now the sharp drop in the real economy is the overproduction of capital, and the associated falling rate of profit. Under capitalism, the only way the rate of profit can be restored is through the destruction of capital, by massive bankruptcies producing millions of unemployed, or by imperialist war laying waste to productive capacity. Or, as happened in the 1930s and ’40s, by both. The present global capitalist economic crisis is not cyclical or even structural but systemic. Neither monetarists nor Keynesians can solve it. But as Lenin and Trotsky insisted, capitalism will not collapse of its own accord. A series of transitional demands should be raised pointing to the need bring down the bourgeoisie and institute workers rule. World Capitalism Plunges (19 March 2009)

Expropriate the Banks Under a Workers Government!
From Wall Street Crisis to International Socialist Revolution

Break with the Democrats and All the Bosses’ Parties!
Build a Revolutionary Workers Party!

Over the last 15 years, there have been financial crises in a number of countries around the world: Mexico, 1994-95; Thailand, 1997; Russia, 1998; Brazil, 1999; Argentina, 2000 to 2002; the implosion of the information technology bubble in the United States in 2000-01; and from 2007 on, the credit crisis in the U.S. and around the world that began with subprime mortgages. Yet this time the entire capitalist system is at risk. The stock market panic can end up in a full-fledged crash, as in 1929, while the lack of credit is threatening to produce a new Great Depression. The economists and politicians who in the past acted as prophets of the religion of free markets are now nationalizing one financial institution after another. But the dire straits in which the masters of the U.S. economy find themselves will not by itself lead to a positive outcome for the international working class. In the 1960s and ’70s as well, the American empire was bogged down in a losing colonial war, along with great social unrest in Latin America, and a large-scale capitalist economic crisis. But nowhere was capitalism overthrown in the region. This is centrally due to the lack of a revolutionary internationalist leadership.Forging that leadership is key. From Wall Street Crisis to International Socialist Revolution (2 October 2008)

No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators! (25 September 2008)

Exchange on Transitional Demands (26 September 2008)

New Commander-in-Chief, Same Bloody System of Oppression

Obama Presidency: U.S. Imperialism Tries a Makeover
Forge a Revolutionary Workers Party!

On January 20, the baton was formally passed from George Bush to Barack Obama as leader of the the most powerful imperial power in the history of the world, presently mired in losing imperialist wars and the deepest economic crisis in three-quarters of a century. For the U.S. to elect a black president reflected a considerable social change in this country founded on chattel slavery, where Jim Crow segregation continued into the 1960s – and where in the 21st century blacks and Latinos have still been prevented from voting. But this has not changed the system of imperialist capitalism one iota: with Obama at the helm, the U.S. is bombing Iraq and Afghanistan to hell, marauding in Pakistan, supplying the weaponry for Israeli slaughter in Gaza, throwing millions out of work in the U.S. while enslaving workers with starvation wages around the planet. Obama in office will preside over a racist system, and he has already become a war criminal responsible for the deaths of scores of defenseless Afghans and Iraqis. Labor leaders are having a honeymoon with Obama, counting on him to make it easier to unionize by passing the Employee Free Choice Act. Class-struggle union militants look instead to the power of the working class, demanding freedom to organize and independence of the unions from the capitalist state. Obama Presidency: U.S. Imperialism Tries a Makeover (23 February 2009)

Why Marxists Oppose All Government Intervention in the Unions (23 February 2009)

The “Obama Socialists” (23 February 2009)

Not a “New New Deal,” But a Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (23 February 2009)

What “Post-Racial” America?
Barack Obama vs. Black Liberation
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!

The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States was widely hailed as the culmination of the Civil Rights movement. Obama’s campaign was based on the illusion that the United States had moved “beyond race.” The ruling class used the occasion to claim that this proves that racism in the United States has been overcome. But racist discrimination and oppression are woven into the fabric of American capitalism. Racist police brutality is ever-present. Obama and the Democratic Party political operatives who shaped his election campaign stayed away from any mention of struggle against racism. Now black people are being told to be patient. Yet patience will not bring freedom any closer for any sector of the oppressed. Gains won through struggle can also be taken back so long as social, economic and political power remains in the hands of capital. We only have to look at the history of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. Installing a black president won’t change the racist nature of American capitalism, any more than having Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made the U.S. any less imperialist. Today, “diversity” is being promoted as an alternative to equality, which capitalism cannot provide. Genuine freedom and actual social, economic and political equality for blacks in America can only come about through a socialist revolution. Barack Obama vs. Black Liberation (23 February 2009)

For International Working-Class Action Against the Israeli Militarists, U.S. Imperialism and Its Arab Pawns!
Zionist Mass Murder – Break the Siege, Defend Gaza!
Defend the Palestinian People – For an Arab/Hebrew Workers State in a Socialist Federation of the Near East
Bush and Obama Back Zionist Butchers – Drive U.S. Imperialism Out of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Near East! For an Internationalist Workers Party!At midday on December 27, Israeli warplanes launched a massive bomb attack on the densely populated Gaza Strip. More than 270 Palestinians were killed as wave after wave of U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters dropped more than 100 bombs. The Israeli military said they were targeting Hamas installations, but numerous civilians were killed, including a number of children, as schools had just let out for lunch. The Zionists’ attack on downtown areas was deliberate mass murder. The Israeli slaughter was carried out with the full knowledge and a green light from its imperialist patrons in Washington, as well as U.S. client regimes such as Egypt. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International condemn the Israeli mass murder in Gaza and call for action by the international working class in defense of Gaza and the Palestinian people, including efforts to break the siege. Zionist Mass Murder – Break the Siege, Defend Gaza! (28 December 2008)

What Will It Take to Defeat the War?
Not Another Popular-Front “Peace Movement,”
Mobilize the Working Class to Fight for Power!
On June 28-29, an “Open National Antiwar Conference” was held in Cleveland, called by a newly minted National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation. Over objections from the conference organizers, centrally Socialist Action, the assembly voted to change the name to include reference to the war on Afghanistan, and to emphasize the connection with U.S. backing for the Zionist occupation of Palestine. (The sponsors of the confab were so right-wing that they feared losing “unity” with Democratic Party supporters of Israel and the Afghanistan war!) What did not change at all was the popular-front character of the new outfit, tying it to the bourgeois parties despite the fig leaf of electoral “independence.” Making this utterly clear, it was decided not to call a national antiwar mobilization prior to the November elections explicitly in order to court those forces who wish to aid the Democrats (and therefore want to avoid making problems for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama). Here is the leaflet issued by the Internationalist Group at the conference. What Will It Take to Defeat the War? (28 June 2008)

Revolution
Publication of the Internationalist Clubs at the City University of New York

Democrats Vote Mega-Billions for War, Trillions for Bankers –
Working People Get Shafted
Students and Labor: Shut NYC Down!
No Tuition! Open Admissions! Free Mass Transit!
We Need a Revolutionary Workers Party
On March 5, some 75,000 New York City workers demonstrated in a huge labor protest against threatened budget cuts as the capitalist economic crisis deepens. They were joined by hundreds of students and faculty from the City University of New York (CUNY). The municipal labor tops called for a “fair budget for all,” while showcasing Democratic Party politicians. The principal student demands, however, were: “No Tuition Hike – No Cuts – No Layoffs.” After a walkout and rally, the energetic student contingent poured into the street chanting, “Students, Labor, Shut the City Down.” The CUNY Internationalist Clubs actively participated in organizing the student actions. We publish here the Revolution leaflet distributed at the protests which underlines the role of the Democrats and calls for powerful working-class action against the ruling-class attack. Students and Labor: Shut NYC Down! (5 March 2009)

See CUNY Internationalist Clubs video on "Fight the Tuition Purge at CUNY: Students and Labor, Shut the City Down!"

Beat Back the Suspensions – Expel Sexton!
Defend NYU Protesters!
Student and labor activists throughout the New York area and beyond must come to the defense of the 18 New York University students suspended and threatened with expulsion for their participation in the 40-hour sit-in that began February 18. The vindictive administration of NYU President John Sexton seeks to make an example of the protesters, including evicting them from their dorm rooms. Despite hostile media coverage, the NYU occupation struck a chord in NYC. Hundreds of people came out on two bitterly cold nights to stand for hours in front of Kimmel Hall, where the “Take Back NYU!” group and others had occupied the cafeteria. Defend NYU Protesters! (23 February 2009)

Inside the New School Occupation
For 38 hours, beginning on the evening of December 17, student activists carried out a widely-publicized sit-in at the New School in lower Manhattan. They declared that they were inspired by the recent factory occupation by workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, and by protests against police brutality in Greece. The occupation took place shortly after the faculty voted “no confidence” in the New School’s president Bob Kerrey. Back in 2001, we had called to drive out Kerrey, a war criminal who killed defenseless women and children in the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong. This also became an issue in the December occupation. Our article is an account by participants of the development and discussions that took place during the sit-in, and what conclusions can be drawn for future struggles. Inside the New School Occupation (24 February 2009)

Marxism and Education

Pamphlets and Articles from The Internationalist
The Battle for Public Education,
Stop CUNY's “War Purge,”
The UNAM Strike and Workers Revolution

Recent articles on Education:
Stop Privatization of Public Schools – Not Corporate Fake “Reform,” We Need an Education Revolution!
No to Teacher-Basher McCain and Education-for-War Obama
Break with the Democrats – For a Class-Struggle Workers Party
From the outset of the 2008 presidential election campaign, teachers and teachers unions have been mobilized to the hilt for the Democratic Party. While the American Federation of Teachers first backed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, it and the National Education Association are now overwhelmingly for Barack Obama running against John McCain for the Republicans. Most teachers are going for the Democrats, but the Democrats are not going for them – nor are the Republicans, to be sure. The fact that for the first time a black man is the top candidate of one of the major parties and could likely be the next U.S. president, and that a woman was his chief opponent in the primary elections, marks a significant social shift in this country that will be widely seen as a breakthrough. Yet this does not change the fact that the Democrats and Republicans are bourgeois parties who govern by and for the capitalist class. Both candidates will continue the imperialist occupation of Iraq and both promise to escalate the war in Afghanistan. There isn’t the slightest doubt that McCain is bad news for teachers and students in every way. The issue is over Obama, who while promising to “work with” teachers says he wants to introduce “merit pay,” increase charter schools, and remove teachers who administrators decide are “doing a poor job.” These points just happen to be the three-pronged attack plan of the corporate interests for whom “educational reform” means union-busting. No to Teacher-Basher McCain and Education-for-War Obama (3 November 2008)

Mobilize Workers’ Action to Defend Bangsamoro Peoples’ Struggle!
Drive Out All U.S. Imperialist Troops and Agencies!
Philippine Government Launches New War on Muslim Groups
War officially came to southern Philippines again as the government of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo unilaterally put an end to eleven years of negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) September 3. A month early the government abruptly broke off talks with the MILF on the eve of signing an autonomy pact. There are numerous reports of U.S. Special Forces accompanying Philippines Army units on their deadly sweeps in the Bangsamoro (land of the Moro people) region. More than 100 people have been killed so far and half a million refugees have fled from the fighting. Bourgeois liberals and the petty-bourgeois left lamely call on the government to resume the “peace process,” which in any case was only intended to wear down the insurgents. Revolutionaries instead seek to mobilize Philippine workers to drive out all U.S. forces, whatever their legal status; to force the withdrawal of the AFP from the contested southern areas; and to defend the Bangsamoro people and their right to self-determination.. Philippine Government Launches New War on Muslim Groups (13 September 2008)

From the Previous Issue

The Internationalist No. 27
(May-June 2008)
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Historic ILWU Dock Workers’ Action Points the Way
May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports

On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn’t want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers’ Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an “illegal strike.” But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses’ mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers’ May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their “symbolic” action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party. May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports (3 May 2008)

Mumia Abu-Jamal, ILWU Strikes for Peace (1 May 2008)
Iraqi Dock Workers, Unions Salute ILWU May Day Port Shutdown (5 May 2008)
NYC May Day in Solidarity with the ILWU (7 May 2008)

Republicrat Obama vs. War Hawk McCain
The Buying of the Presidency 2008
U.S. Imperialism Seeks New Face on System of War and Racism
In the 2008 elections, the more far-sighted rulers of U.S. imperialism want to change the image of “America,” to replace that of the torture photos of Abu Ghraib. That’s why for the first time a black candidate has a very well-financed election machine and a real shot at the presidency. Disgust over the endless war in Iraq and concern over the economy are so intense that this election is the Democrats’ to lose. But they’ve pulled it off before, and one can’t underestimate the racism of U.S. bourgeois politics. The Bush loyalists want a certified war criminal, John McCain, to carry the Republican banner. But make no mistake, Barack Obama is no “antiwar” candidate. He has been drafted by the Democrats as the better war candidate. He summed up his strategy as “getting out of Iraq and on to the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” In fact, he also intends to leave U.S. troops in Iraq. With his talk of “change,” Obama's candidacy has generated enthusiasm, particularly among college students, black youth and many others fed up with eight years of the Bush government. But in claiming to “transcend race,” he ignores and even opposes struggles against against racism. The centuries-old oppression of black people can only be overcome by smashing the racist capitalist system, just as it will take workers revolution to put an end to the endless imperialist wars. The Buying of the Presidency 2008 (26 June 2008) -

For Revolutionary Defense of Cuba!
Free the Cuban Five!
On June 5, a federal appeals court upheld the convictions of the “Cuban Five”: René González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labaniño, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero. The Five heroically risked their lives to defend the Cuban Revolution against terror attacks launched from the U.S. Prosecutors presented evidence that the five had infiltrated counterrevolutionary terror groups in Miami. The government outrageously charged the defendants with “conspiracy” to commit espionage and murder, since there is not a shred of evidence that they commited any crime whatsoever. Several thousand Cubans have been killed in nearly five decades of invasions, bombings and assassinations by the U.S. and its gusano mercenaries. The authors of the notorious 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines passenger plane that killed all 73 aboard, Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, walk around Miami freely while the Cuban Five have been locked up for nearly a decade. We demand the Cuban Five be freed now, and return the U.S. naval base and torture center at Guantánamo to Cuba! Free the Cuban Five! (14 June 2008)

“Workers Vanguard” Brings Up the Rear
The Opportunist Left and the Port Strike Against the War: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
On May Day, ports up and down the Pacific Coast were shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to demand an end to “this bloody war and occupation for imperial domination.” It is the first time ever that an American union has taken industrial action against a U.S. war. News of the ILWU’s strike against the war has reverberated among labor militants internationally. While the maritime employers threatened legal action and trade papers denounce reds under the beds, most of the left was notably silent. The reason: they are part and parcel of the popular-front antiwar movement, whose purpose is to pressure the Democrats, and militant labor action gets in the way. The Spartacist League for many years called for workers strikes against the war, as well as “hot-cargoing” war materiel. However, as part of its turn from revolutionary Trotskyism to centrist opportunism, the SL abandoned these key programmatic positions, along with its prior calls to defeat U.S. imperialism. Meanwhile, it smears the Internationalist Group for upholding the Trotskyist program of workers action against imperialist war. The Opportunist Left and the Port Strike Against the War: The Sound of One Hand Clapping (15 May 2008)

Strike Challenged Slave Labor Law,
Despite Setbacks They’re Still Ready to Fight
Puerto Rican Teachers: Unbought and Unbowed
The two-week strike by Puerto Rican teachers was a historic event, in open defiance of Law 45, a ruthless piece of anti-union legislation that outlaws strikes, work stoppages or even voting for such labor action. From the beginning of the walkout on February 20 to the decision to return to the classrooms, approved by a giant assembly on March 5, the action by the Federation of Puerto Rican Teachers (FMPR) threw the island into turmoil. In daring to break the prohibition decreed by the colonial capitalist rulers, the FMPR blazed the way for all Puerto Rican workers. The strikers confronted an unholy alliance of enemies which extended from a governor under investigation for corruption and his arrogant secretary of education to the “dues-sucking” union leaders of the SEIU, who shamefully took the side of the employer. The return to work was not a debilitating defeat, yet the outcome of the strike was a setback. Many teachers were not prepared for a lengthy strike, and while defying Law 45, overall the FMPR continued to play by the bosses’ rules. Above all, the teachers had to face state repression alone, while FMPR leaders’ comrades in the Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores failed to bring out other key unions. The fact that the strike could not prevail confirms Trotsky’s declaration that reformist unionism is no longer possible, that unions can either be instruments of imperialist capitalism, or instruments of the revolutionary movement of the proletariat. Puerto Rican Teachers: Unbought and Unbowed (25 June 2008)

Solidarity in New York with Puerto Rican Strikers (25 June 2008)

Hard Class Battle Coming
Puerto Rico: All Out to Defend the Teachers’ Struggle!
We are on the threshold of a major class battle in Puerto Rico. Every day new preparations are announced for the coming strike of the Puerto Rican Teachers Federation (FMPR). With 42,000 members, a majority of them women, the FMPR represents almost all of Puerto Rico’s teachers and is by far the largest union on the island. The Shock Force of the Puerto Rican Police and National Guard are being readied to go after the strikers. The struggle of the Puerto Rican teachers affects everybody. The working class as a whole, students and parents, teachers and defenders of workers’ rights around the world must come out in defense of the FMPR! If there are mass arrests, the response must be massive blockades and spreading the struggle to the point of shutting the island down. In order to win this strike, it is necessary to prepare for a struggle not only of the teachers but within the whole workers movement against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy that sabotages the workers’ struggle. Above all, it is necessary to fight against illusions in and ties with bourgeois parties and politicians. It’s high time to begin building a revolutionary internationalist workers party. Puerto Rico: All Out to Defend the Teachers’ Struggle! (14 February 2008)

En español: Puerto Rico: ¡Todos a la calle en defensa del magisterio en lucha

Report from San Juan

Tens of Thousands March in Puerto Rico on Eve of Teachers Strike

“La huelga va, la huelga va” (the strike is on the way), sang thousands of teachers as they marched through the streets of Puerto Rico’s capital today in preparation for the massive strike that is shaping up as a major class battle. Victory to the Puerto Rican teachers! Tens of Thousands March in Puerto Rico on Eve of Teachers Strike (18 February 2008)

En español: Decenas de miles marchan en Puerto Rico en vísperas de la huelga magisterial

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Now!

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Federal Court Reaffirms Frame-Up Conviction, Orders Life Behind Bars or Racist Legal Lynching
Ruling Against Mumia Shows:
No Justice in the Capitalist Courts
Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!
On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now! Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! (28 March 2008)

En español: ¡Movilizar a la clase obrera para liberar a Mumia Abu-Jamal!

Police Takeover Fails – Miners Resist