Newsletter April 14th, 2013
Thatcher has died / The new Pope and the Argentine Junta / Floods in Argentina / Cyprus bailout... and more
14/04/2013
Margaret Thatcher has died
Goodbye, the working class and the oppressed of the world are not going to miss you
When the news item became known, in Brixton (a neighborhood in South London), in Glasgow (Scotland), and certainly in more than one miners’ town, many people went out to the street by way of celebration.
Bergoglio was elected Pope
The crisis of the Catholic Church
The Conclave (a closed meeting, from the Latin for “with a key”) of 115 Cardinals, that has just voted for a new Pope, was much quicker than was estimated and, surprisingly, elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, from Argentina, from now on, Francis I.
Argentina
The storm is natural; the deaths and the disaster are not
The history of Argentina in the years of rule by the Kirchners could well be told through the social crimes that took place under their governments. Cromañon at the end of 2004, the Massacre at Once in February, last year, or those dead because of the storm, in Holy Week, exactly a year ago.
Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS, made a statement after floods
Floods in Buenos Aires: 48 fatalities: ‘A new social crime against the people’Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS (Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas), made a statement after floods caused chaos in parts of Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province.
Kirchnerism begins to lose its grip on the workers’ movement
With the government priding itself that the only opposition to its policies was coming from the right, the first national workers’ strike against the Kirchner government took place on November 20th. The last general strike in Argentina was on December 13th, 2001, a week before the government of Fernando de la Rúa fell during the uprising.
Economic crisis
German imperialism has imposed humiliating conditions on Cyprus
Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with the IMF and the European Central Bank, has succeeded, under extreme circumstances, in imposing draconian and humiliating economic conditions on Cyprus.
A new phase in the crisis of the euro
The decision of the European Union (EU) and the Cypriot government to confiscate part of the deposits of small savers indicates a stepping up by the creditor countries to avoid, at all costs, the devaluation of the mountain of debt...