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

A shameful sentence against the Pussy Riot feminist activists in Russia

By Celeste Murillo
Saturday, August 18, 2012

On February 21, this year, the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot carried out an action repudiating the Orthodox Church and recently re-elected President Vladimir Putin. The feminist activists entered Moscow’s main cathedral, and, in a completely peaceful action,...

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

Statement of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas

The government of the African National Congress massacres 34 workers in South Africa


By PTS, Argentina
Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas expresses its most emphatic condemnation of the massacre of 34 mineworkers in South Africa, perpetrated by the police, in the context of a strike...

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

Chile: For a plan of struggle to stop the Hinzpeter Law
Repression is not making us surrender

By: PTR–CcC (Partido de los Trabajadores Revolucionarios - Clase contra Clase), from Chile
Thursday, August 16, 2012

With a mobilization that brought together thousands nationally, August 8 was marked by the intransigence of Piñera’s government and police repression dictated from...

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

The grotesque face of racism and xenophobia
Pursuit and massive deportations of immigrants in Greece

By PTS, Argentina
Thursday, August 9, 2012

By Isabel Infanta

Last weekend, the Greek government sent the police on an enormous operation of raids against immigrants in the central areas of Athens, poor neighborhoods and brothels, in a real pursuit that involved around...

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

Syria
Fighting continues; the political crisis increases

By PTS, Argentina
Thursday, August 9, 2012

By Diego Dalai

On August 8, after days of being bombed, the Saladin neighborhood, a stronghold of the rebels, suffered the full-scale offensive of the army that in the preceding days had concentrated 20,000 troops in the outskirts of Aleppo. The...