[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – Unofficial translation]

Germany: 20,000 in Frankfurt against the European Central Bank

Thursday, May 24, 2012

20,000 people came to Germany's financial capital, Frankfurt, on May 19, to participate in a mass march against the European Central Bank (ECB) and the austerity policy that the ECB is imposing throughout Europe. In the days preceding the march, two thousand demonstrators had blocked banks and squares...

[From the Fracción Trotskista http://www.ft-ci.org/?lang=en – unofficial translation]

Economic Outlook
A specter is threatening Europe

By Paula Bach
Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Nobel Laureate in Economics and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicted the “Greek euro exit, very possibly next month.” If this prediction comes true, both Krugman and the publications Financial Times and Der Spiegel maintain that the panic would spread...

[From the Fracción Trotskista, http://www.ft-ci.org/?lang=en – unofficial translation]

Elections in Greece
Forceful repudiation of the pro-austerity parties

Thursday, May 10, 2012
By Alejandra Ríos

The outcome of the May 6 elections in Greece represented an historic disaster for PASOK (the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, a social-democratic tendency) and the (center-right) New Democracy, the parties responsible for imposing the austerity...

[From the Fracción Trotskista http://www.ft-ci.org/?lang=en – Unofficial translation]

France - Interview
The Socialist Party's victory in France

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The future of the relationship with Germany, the rise of the xenophobic right wing, the policy of the reformist Front of the Left and the campaign of the "far left"

On Sunday, May 6, the second round of the presidential elections was carried out. As our comrades...

[From the Fracción Trotskista http://www.ft-ci.org/?lang=en – Unofficial translation]

Chile: Free education is won with struggle, strikes, occupations and without bureaucracy
The student movement retakes the streets

By PTR-CcC (Partido de los Trabajadores Revolucionarios - Clase contra Clase), from Chile
Thursday, May 3, 2012

More than 100,000 students mobilized nationally on April 25. Only a few days after the announcement by Piñera’s...