The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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A year of neoliberal devastation under Milei in Argentina
BERT SCHOUWENBURG details how the libertarian, radical-right president’s shock doctrine has pushed millions into poverty while dismantling the state and aligning with US imperialism and Israeli slaughter
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks before President-elect Donald Trump during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.
HENRY FOWLER, General Strike 100 national co-ordinator, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations, joining the National Day of Celebration in Barnsley. The event was organised by Unite for a Workers Economy (Unite the Union), the Durham Miners Association, and the National Union of Mineworkers
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
LIKE many of Buenos Aires’s inhabitants, Fabian, the concierge in my apartment block, is of Paraguayan descent.
On the morning of November 20 last year, I asked him what he thought of Javier Milei’s landslide victory that had seen him elected president the night before. “Argentinians,” he said, “Simply never learn.”
A year on, the most right-wing president in modern Argentine history has lived up to his promise to transform the country by effectively dismantling the state and replacing it with private enterprise.
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