Crisis
LATIN AMERICA
Venezuela: Crisis Worsens After Controversial Election of the Constituent Assembly and Sanctions by the US
August 05, 2017 | Between the farce of Maduro's constituent assembly and the shallow cries for freedom and democracy by the right opposition–no respite for the Venezuelan (...)
GUEST POST
Power Cuts in the Gaza Strip, a Humanitarian Crisis
July 14, 2017 | As the Gaza Strip moves even more rapidly than predicted toward becoming uninhabitable, its two million residents face an escalating humanitarian crisis.
A Race Towards the Abyss: Labor and Capital Competition in a Globalized Market
May 24, 2017 | The internationalization of production has redefined the terms of global competition. Global Value Chains perpetuate the North-South divide and create a unified global labor (...)
GERMANY
Refugees: The End of the German Illusion
February 08, 2017 | German Chancellor Angela Merkel responds to Trump’s racism. Is she being cynical, hypocritical, or both?
ECONOMY
The Deutsche Bank Crisis and the Financial World War
October 18, 2016 | The Deutsche Bank crisis shows that the contradictions which led to the crisis of 2007/8 are not over, and instead have become interlinked with the geopolitical tensions of the great (...)
ECONOMY
Phase Two of the Economic Crisis
September 01, 2016 | The 10th international conference of the Trotskyist Fraction took place in Buenos Aires from August 7 to 14, with representatives from 14 countries. This article focuses on one major topic of (...)
CRISIS IN VENEZUELA
Venezuela at the Brink
July 16, 2016 | The Venezuelan crisis has sharpened dramatically in recent months, with skyrocketing inflation and widespread shortages of food and basic goods in poor and working class neighborhoods, which led (...)
DEBATES:
Lines of Debate: the Subaltern and the Proletariat of the World
May 16, 2016 | Reverberations of the international crisis have resurrected the idea of the working class as revolutionary political actor from the crypt. Today, with evidence of growing labor unrest in both (...)
INTERVIEW
Greece Strikes Again
November 25, 2015 | Left Voice interviewed Gianna Katsiampoura, a member of OKDE-Spartakos in Greece and a researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
FRANCE
The Paris Attacks and a Possible Anti-War Movement
November 23, 2015 | On top of the fear and emotion produced by the brutal attacks in Paris and near the Stadium of France on November 13, we are seeing a rollout of anti-terrorist operations in Saint-Denis and (...)
UNITED STATES
Puerto Rico’s Catastrophic Fiscal Adjustments
November 07, 2015 | Imperialism seeks to prevent another Greek scenario. In Congress, Obama requested legislative reforms to clear the way for Puerto Rico to undergo bankruptcy processes. The republicans, who (...)
CRISIS
Ford Workers from Brazil on Strike Against Mass Layoffs
September 14, 2015 | Ford Workers in Brazil go on strike against mass layoffs amidst Brazil's economic crisis. The government-led union accepts that workers pay for the crisis, negotiating only how much the workers (...)