-
Declaración de PCR Brasil sobre los acontecimientos en ese país.
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, mostly young people, are in the streets to demand the reduction of the absurd buses fares and a free pass. Public transport in our country is of poor quality, though it is one of the most expensive in the world. So 37 million Brazilians are forced to walk because they…
-
Las Primeras Naciones de Manitoba entregan avisos de desalojo a empresas mineras.
Two Manitoba First Nations are serving eviction notices to mining companies they say are operating illegally on their land. A delegation from Red Sucker Lake First Nation descended on the work camp of Mega Precious Metals Inc., a mineral exploration company, to stop working and vacate the land immediately. Mathias Colomb First Nation (MCCN) issued a similar…
-
Los flujos financieros ilícitos han convertido a África en "un acreedor neto del mundo".‘
by Mark Tran Report challenges traditional thinking that the west is pouring money into Africa through aid without receiving much in return Africa lost up to $1.4tn in illicit financial flows in 1980-2009, far exceeding money coming in over the same period and seriously undermining the continent’s development, a report said on Wednesday. Illicit financial flows…
-
El maravilloso mundo estadounidense de informantes y agentes provocadores
by Todd Gitlin and Tom Engelhardt Back in the early 1970s, I worked for Pacific News Service (PNS), a small antiwar media outfit that operated out of the Bay Area Institute (BAI), a progressive think tank in San Francisco. The first story I ever wrote for PNS came about because an upset U.S. Air Force…
-
Inversores chinos buscan cerrar acuerdos inmobiliarios en Estados Unidos.
By JULIE CRESWELL First, it was the Japanese. Moneymen from Tokyo blew into the United States to buy famous pieces of the American landscape, from Rockefeller Center in New York to the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. Now, about a quarter-century later, another set of deep-pocketed foreign buyers is pushing ever deeper into United States…
-
Las protestas masivas en Brasil y la crisis del liderazgo revolucionario.
Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger for the escalating protests was an increase in bus fares, which was subsequently rolled back…
-
Estados Unidos tiene derecho a armar a los rebeldes sirios, afirma el presidente israelí.
By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters before his 90th birthday, Peres dismissed the idea that Israel could launch a unilateral…
-
Filadelfia cierra 23 escuelas y se está construyendo una nueva prisión de 1400 millones de dólares.
By Michael Allen Philadelphia officials are closing almost two dozen schools and decimating the budgets of the remaining schools under a so-called “doomsday” education plan. However, amid all these cuts for education, the state of Pennsylvania is building a new $400 million prison for Philadelphia. Pennsylvania’s School Reform Commission voted on March 7 to close 23…
-
Declaración de Eduardo Artes, Primer Secretario del Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) sobre las manifestaciones en Brasil.
DISCONTENT IN BRAZIL Eduardo Artes First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) June 21, 2013 General Aspects The media shows us large demonstrations, bonfires and confrontations in Brazil. These are caused by the popular discontent; rejecting announced increases in public transport fares — the effects of capitalist politics in its neoliberal…
-
Casi 300 trabajadores de Nike fueron despedidos tras las huelgas en Camboya.
PHNOM PENH, June 11 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for U.S sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal notices. Low-cost labour has attracted Western brands to the Southeast Asian country and garments now account…
El Fénix Rojo
Noticias reales para los trabajadores, por los trabajadores.
