PORTO RICO

Defeat to the colonial takeover imposed by the United States!

For the complete independence and national self-determination of Puerto Rico!

Ana Souza, Leon Carlos, Humberto Rodrigues 

Puerto Rico has a population of 3.7 million people. Over the past 20 years, the country’s (public) debt became gigantic, reaching a sum of $72 billions, the equivalent to its 103% Gross National Product (GNP). This situation is further aggravated by Puerto Rico’s colonial condition. It is the oldest USA colony. The region is formally called as the "associated free state" of America and sometimes it is even called as the “51st state”; however, it is in fact a 21th century U.S. colony.

PUERTO RICO IS NOT IN A DEBT CRISIS, BUT IN A COLONIAL CRISIS

Puerto Rico is neither an independent country nor receives the same handling as one of the imperial federation states. With its hands tight to the U.S. control, Puerto Rico lives one of its worst crises. Since it is not an independent country like Greece for example, the colony is unable to renegotiate the debt with either the international companies or even the IMF.

UK - REFERENDUM

Vote Yes: For the Socialist United States of Europe!

Gerry Downing

We should call for a Yes vote in the referendum because as socialists we must ask and answer the question, is it in the interests of the working class and oppressed in Britain and internationally for the UK to remain in the EU or to leave it? That is our sole criterion. We are for a Yes vote primarily because we recognise that socialism in a single country is impossible. Indeed capitalism has long ago become impossible to sustain and develop in a single country and socialism must be built on a far higher level of wealth and productivity. An exit from the EU would strengthen nationalism and patriotism not only in the British ruling class but also in a big section of the British working class.

But surely we must not attempt in any way to confuse the Socialist United States of Europe with the present imperialist cabal that is the European Union? The United States of America was established in the War of Independence and maintained in the Civil War in revolutionary struggles. France’s internal customs borders were demolished along with the ancien regime by revolution in 1789-94. However both Germany and Italy were unified from the top down basically by reactionary political movements after failed revolutions.

PUERTO RICO

¡Por el derecho a la independencia plena y

la autodeterminación nacional de Puerto Rico!

Puerto Rico pose una población de 3,7 millones de habitantes. En los últimos 20 años la deuda (publica) del país se disparó a 72 mil millones de dólares lo que equivale al 103% de su producto nacional bruto. Más la situación del país se ve agravada por su condición colonial. Puerto Rico es la más antigua colonia de EUA. Formalmente es llamado “Estado Libre Asociado “a los EUA y hasta de “51 Estado” más de hecho es una colonia del siglo 21.

PUERTO RICO NO TIENE UNA CRISIS DE ENDEUDAMIENTO,

MAS SI UNA CRISIS COLONIAL

Puerto Rico no es un país independiente y no tiene verdaderamente el mismo tratamiento de un estado de la federación imperialista. Esta situación está quebrando a la economía del país. Puerto Rico vive lo peor entre los dos mundos. Como no es un país independiente como es Grecia, no puede siquiera renegociar la deuda con los acreedores internacionales, siquiera con el FMI, por ejemplo.

UK - PLEBISCITE

Revolutionary Defeatism to the imperialist U.S.
and E.U., and to the British imperialist right!
For the Socialist United States of Europe!

Leon Carlos
Versión en español

The plebiscite on June 23 will decide whether the United Kingdom will remain or not in the European Union.

The arena is divided between imperialist U.S., France and Germany together with a side of imperialist Britain who want to stay in the European Union; as opposed to another sector of British imperialism who wants the UK to leave the EU.

The majority of imperialism, labour and conservatives are for the permanence of Great Britain in the European Union. The British imperialism sector which wants the UK to leave the EU has a nationalist rightwing echo and fascist tendencies.

U.S. - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Choosing the Commander in Chief who
will direct imperialism in World War III

Promising to get rid of George Bush Junior’s legacy, Obama was elected while surfing on a wave of optimism. But his "Yes we can" has left the working class and oppressed with "what have we done?" as Obama has cynically deepened imperialism’s agenda by continuing the Bush horror legacy in the Middle East, backstabbing the working class and oppressed by promulgating policies that have only exacerbated their impoverishment after the 2008 capitalist depression, and extending the U.S. influence further into Asia, Africa and rallied western European allies in imperialist encirclement at the Russian border, paving the way for a new war.

FRANCE - MASS PROTESTS

Protests against the El Kohmri law 1

Yao Wenwan

A massive rejection of this law from the entire worker’s population. This means a direct rejection of the policies of Valls (Prime Minister) and Hollande (President of the Republic). The right and the National Front have a lot of difficulties to capitalize this massive rejection of the working population against the Labour Act.

There is a union revival still insufficient but constantly coming from the most militant section of the working class, and it is rapidly a developing movement beginning in the recent past.

BRAZIL - COUP

A coup by imperialism against the workers and the tasks of the communists in the new cold war

Humberto Rodrigues
Versão em Português

The impeachment push to overthrow the government of the PT in Brazil has been orchestrated since 2013. It is a parliamentary coup d’etat to take out the PT government at any cost.

Corruption crimes of which the PT was accused have been proven to be practiced by all his tormentors and on a much larger scale. The bourgeois opposition lost the last four presidential elections in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.

THE NEW COLD WAR INTER-CAPITALIST

The crisis of 2008 in US and Europe opens up space for expansion of the influence of BRICS on the planet

Humberto Rodrigues

The 2008 capitalist crisis triggered a US economic slowdown and the European Union on the world market. It was then that a group of countries led by China and Russia, the BRICS, of which Brazil is part, occupied this space. The constitution of capitalist imperialism of the rival bloc was possible because right in front of Brazil, India and South Africa, China and Russia are nations that have become capitalist powers. China and Russia combine exceptionally in its constitution:

OCCUPY NOW! NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL UNDER WORKERS CONTROL!

Occupy Now!

Nationalise British Steel under workers control!

Socialist Fight Statement

Port Talbot, the Songting Steel factory in China or the two electric arc furnaces (EAF) at Sestao complex near Bilbao are closed or closing because of the global crisis of capitalism, not because of “Chinese Dumping or overcapacity”.

Solidarity with Chinese steel workers against the common enemy, global imperialist capitalism!

CUBA

The cuban exceptionalism

Liaison Committee for the Fourth International - LCFI

The Cuban revolution marked a turn in the history of the twentieth century in Latin America. In addition to defeating a pro-US dictatorship in Uncle Sam’s backyard, for the first time in the Western Hemisphere capitalism was expropriated.

This allowed a small island with less than a dozen million people to escape the fate of an agricultural colony subservient to the US to proudly show to its population and the world its unprecedented achievements like the elimination of hunger and poverty, an educational system. Its excellent health and medical advances are exported to the rest of oppressed humanity.