Americas
International support grows for Brazil’s socialist alternative
During the presidency of Lula da Silva Brazil’s governing Workers’ Party has turned from a radical alternative into a safe pair of hands for capitalism. Now support is growing for a socialist alternative in the coming presidential elections.
Brazil is not just one of the world’s most unequal and fast-growing economies. It’s also a country […]
The Mass Arrests, the Security State and the Toronto G20 Summit
The massive police presence in Toronto over this week has been officially justified on the basis of protecting the leaders of the G8 and G20 countries meeting in Huntsville and Toronto. We were told that the creation of the fenced-in fortress, the massive mobilization of police (estimates ranging from 10-20,000) from across Canada, and even […]
28Jun2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
ALBA countries must support Tamils not Sri Lanka’s War Criminal Government
Eva Golinger is known for her counter-intelligence analysis in the service of Venezuela’s peaceful revolution against the local oligarchy and the United States Empire. She is a noted author (“The Chavez Code: Cracking US intervention in Venezuela”). A dual citizen of the US and Venezuela, she is an attorney, and a personal friend of President […]
2Jun2010 | Admin. | 6 comments | Continued
Venezuela - where is the Bolivarian revolution going?
London Socialist Resistance is hosting a meeting with the journalist Iain Bruce who is just back from Caracas and will report on the challenges facing the revolutionary process and the left.
It’s on Tuesday 13 April at 7.30pm in the Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, W1 (Warren St tube).
The need for solidarity with Venezuela and […]
Latin America: Business as Usual in Washington
Tony O’Sullivan wrote this article for the Birmingham Socialist Bulletin
Over the last few years Latin America has taken great strides forward. A succession of governments have been elected on a platform of re-distributing wealth and raising living standards by using the continents resources for the benefit of the majority. But these are relatively recent developments. […]
25Feb2010 | Administrator | 0 comments | Continued
United States: Politics of Inverted Fear
A Letter from the Editors of the United States socialist magazine Solidarity.
THE PERVASIVE SENSE of insecurity and menace in our society today is not unfounded. Far from it — but the reality of the crisis we face is turned upside down by a manipulated and cynical discourse.
Let’s pose a simple question. There are now […]
Cuba & ALBA Let Down Sri Lanka Tamils
“Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies… Our country is really the whole world, and all the revolutionaries of the world are our brothers,” President Fidel Castro. (1) “The revolutionary [is] the ideological motor force […]
17Nov2009 | Ron Ridenour | 1 comment | Continued
Aztec Civilisation meets the Spanish Empire
A. Kennedy reviews the Moctezuma exhibition at the British Museum.
Moctezuma was the ruler who allowed the Spanish, led by an adventurer called Hernan Cortes, to seize the Aztecs’ Central American empire in 1519-21. The way was thus opened (as historians like to say) for the subsequent destruction of the Inca empire in Peru […]
PROTEST AT THE US EMBASSY! Reinstate President Zelaya Now!
Defend human rights in Honduras! - statement by the Emergency Committee Against the Coup in Honduras
Wednesday November 4, 5.30-7.30pm
At the US Embassy, 24 Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1A.
(For a map click here)
A deal was reached last week in Honduras that should see the return of President Zelaya to office. But so far this has not […]
G20: USA restructures the management of Global Capitalism
The recent meeting of the G20 leaders in Pittsburgh has seen the USA radically restructure the management of global capitalism’s finance and economic systems. The G20 came in to existence in the late 1990’s as a response to the first globalised financial crisis – the Asian crisis.
While the world economy has been globalised for decades […]
Stella D’Oro: Last ditch effort to save good union jobs
Three months ago, we told you about unionized bakery workers at Stella D’Oro in
New York City who’d been on strike for ten months. We asked you to send
messages of protest to the private equity company that had purchased their
factory and you did so in your thousands.
In July, those workers ended their strike and returned to […]
From the other side of the world, Hugo Blanco thanks the Vestas workers
Recently, in Peru, indigenous ecologists were massacred by the government, which was acting in support of large multinational companies devastating the Amazon rain forest. This has shaken us and made us more aware of any act of environmental destruction.
We are in solidarity with those, in whatever part of the world, who defend the wellbeing of the planet. For that reason we totally support the […]
ENA chant offensive slogan and ''EEDL'' while marching through peaceful independent shop area of Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7n-tP_4hM 
