Argentina: Workers Occupy RR Donnelley Factory After Illegal Closure

14.08.2014 Buenos Aires: Another multinational company from USA has left hundreds of people jobless in Argentina. RR Donnelley, headquartered in Chicago, IL has declared bankruptcy and closed its factory doors leaving over 400 families without work. The closure has been deemed illegal. Workers have set up roadblocks on Panamericana Highway, not far from Lear protests that are still ongoing. Donnelley workers occupied the factory yesterday, August 12th and put it into production.

August 5th, 2014 Buenos Aires Herald

Police deployed in Panamericana highway as picket halts traffic

05.08.2014 Workers of the Lear auto-parts company were blocking the Panamericana highway this morning near the Buenos Aires province locality of General Pacheco with police officers being deployed in the area to ease traffic in the road’s main track.

July 23, 2014 INFOBAE

A New Form of Picketing Baffles the Gendarmerie

28.07.2014 translated from spanish version of http://www.infobae.com/2014/07/23/1582671-nacio-una-nueva-modalidad-piquete-que-desconcerto-la-gendarmeria

July 17, 2014 Buenos Aires Herald

From Lear, Gestamp conflicts emerge left-wing, independent groups

18.07.2014 Around 650 workers at the car-parts company Lear are pressuring their bosses to respond to the dismissal of 100 of their colleagues. They have organized several demonstrations in the past two weeks, as well as a picket that was eventually countered by security forces last Tuesday. So far the firm has not allowed the shop stewards to enter the factory.

June 8, 2014 Revolutionary News

Argentina: Lear Roadblocks Face Violent Eviction by Gendarmerie

09.07.2014 June 8 2014 Buenos Aires: Today was a national day of solidarity with the struggle of Lear workers with roadblocks in roads and highways in various parts of the country. Actions were held in Cordoba, Mendoza, Neuquen, Tucuman, Rosario and Jujuy. The most important roadblocks were in Puente Pueyrredon connecting the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, and especially the roadblock on the Panamericana highway which links all of the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires with the city. Protesters blocking the Panamericana highway faced a violent repression by the Argentine gendarmerie.

JUNE 3, 2014 BUENOS AIRES HERALD

Gov’t optimistic about Gestamp conflict resolution, auto industry situation

03.06.2014 Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich referred to the conflict in Gestamp auto parts plant and expressed his optimism about the solution of the labour dispute that began last week after 69 workers were laid off. “The plant is fully operational with 400 workers. The production has been restored,” he said.

JUNE 2, 2014 BUENOS AIRES HERALD

Gestamp workers accuse the company of infringing mandatory conciliation

02.06.2014 Workers of auto parts company Gestamp continued today with the occupation of the plant in Escobar, in Buenos Aires province, accusing the company of infringing a compulsory conciliation ordered on Saturday by Buenos Aires Labour Minister Oscar Cuartango, and announced plans to take the protest to Buenos Aires province Ministry of Labour.

10/31/2013 Washington Post

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins, but not by enough: Argentina post-election report

31.10.2013 The Left showed a good electoral performance and succeeded in gaining three seats in the lower chamber.

10/31/2013 Wikipedia

Workers’ Left Front

31.10.2013 The Workers' Left Front (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores) is an alliance of three Trotsykist parties in Argentina formed to fight a number of elections in 2011, announced at a press conference in April that year. They are the Workers' Party (PO), the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS), and Socialist Left (IS).

10/29/2013 Pravda.ru

Kirchner maintains majority, but loses major Argentine cities

29.10.2013 The Left Front and Workers also won a place in the Chamber of Deputies for the province of Mendoza. The historical result of the alliance formed by the Labour Party, Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Left was repeated in the province of Buenos Aires and in Salta.

10/28/2013 Buenos Aires Herald

Workers’ Leftist Front takes three seats in Lower House

28.10.2013 The Workers’ Leftist Front (FIT) secured historic victories yesterday, winning its first three seats in the Lower House of Congress and securing spots for provincial lawmakers.

SOCIALISTWORKER.ORG July 5, 2013

All of Egypt is Tahrir

07.07.2013 Ahmed Shawki, editor of the International Socialist Review and an eyewitness to the revolution in February 2011, talked to Eric Ruder about what brought about

COUNTERPUNCH.ORG Weekend Edition July 5-7, 2013

How to Thwart Democracy? In Egypt the Military is Supreme

07.07.2013 The Generals have done it again! Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, was deposed one year after being democratically elected by the Egyptian people. For those opposed to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the move by the military is seen as supporting a popular uprising and a belated effort to revive or restore the Egyptian revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak more than two years ago. But for Morsi’s supporters or those who simply had any respect for democratic governance and the rule of law, the action by the army is nothing short of a brazen though soft military coup d’état. Which one is it? Here are the facts.

BBC 03/15/2013

BBC Interview with Myriam Bregman

16.03.2013 The lawyer who questioned Bergoglio about the fate of the “disappeared” (during Argentina’s “dirty war”, 1976-1983)

Interview with Hossam al Hamalawy, Egyptian journalist and activist

Egypt: Protests and repression in Tahrir Square (11/21/2011)

27.11.2011

COUNTERPUNCH.ORG - 11-13/03/2011

The Counter-Revolution: Fissures in the Arab Revolts

14.03.2011

GUARDIAN.COM.UK - 12/02/2011

Algerian protesters clash with police as Egypt fervour spreads

13.02.2011 • Officers ordered to enforce no-protest ban in central Algiers • Up to 5,000 protesters rally in Yemeni capital of Sana'a • Arab leaders make concessions to avoid repeat of Egypt

WASHINGTONPOST.COM - 01/02/2011

Egyptian opposition calls for massive protest; foreigners flee

01.02.2011

NYT.COM - 31/01/2011

Egypt’s Economy Is Near Paralysis

31.01.2011

NYT.COM - 29/01/2011

Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests

29.01.2011