I have begun work on a study guide to the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital. As such I will be in need of proof-readers to catch mistakes, correct incorrect segments, and suggest additions. If you are interested in offering your services (in any of the above mentioned categories) please contact me.

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

A long and massive protest against the most aberrant results of imperialist domination
Hunger strike in the Guantánamo prison

By Diego Dalai
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Since February 6, 2013, several prisoners of the emblematic US prison declared themselves on a hunger strike against the abuses by the authorities and the guards. The act that led to such a decision of the...

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

Paraguay: The victory of the right-winger Cartés

By Eduardo Molina
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The election of the businessman Cartés as the new President of Paraguay in some elections that legitimize the parliamentary coup that removed Lugo from office on June 22, represents a political victory for the most concentrated groups of the bourgeoisie and imperialism. After Maduro’s...

(From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – unofficial translation)

Venezuela: In view of Maduro’s close victory
We must not allow imperialism to capitalize on the crisis of chavismo

By the LTS, Venezuela

An unexpected and closed election result shook the country and has put the national situation in suspense. Nicolás Maduro hardly exceeded the candidate of the rightwing opposition, Capriles Radonski, by 272,865 votes, a very narrow margin, compared...

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When I became politically active in early 2003 I was a loyal Dutch SP follower.

The SP is a left-wing parliamentarian formation that started out as a Maoist grouplet in the 1960's but by 1991 formally renounced Marxism-Leninism and afterwards shifted rightwards towards coalitionism. Dutch politics consists of a complex parliamentary formation, given that our electoral system is fully proportionally representative where parliament has 150 seats and...