Argentina is going through its worst ever economic crisis – and the working class is bearing the brunt of it. The economy has shrunk by a fifth, while inflation is running at 40 per cent. The real value of wages has slumped 70 per cent this year and 450,000 jobs have been lost. Read more...

On 19/20 December last year Argentina erupted after two years of economic, social and political crisis. Deepening recession after 1998 saw the country gradually engulfed by road blockades by the unemployed (piqueteros), eight general strikes, local uprisings, plus significant gains for the left in the November elections. Read more...

Peter Main reports on a growing revolt against capitalist restoration which threatens market reforms Read more...

Neuquén is in the vanguard of the struggle against unemployment. It is a small city with around 200,000 people in the west of the country. The protest against the social crisis has reached a qualitatively higher level there than in the rest of Argentina. At first glance, there was nothing unconventional about the city – except the numerous placards and signs fixed on the lamp posts calling for solidarity with the strike of the ceramic workers at Zanon. Read more...

An interview conducted with a militant from the PTS in Argentina who visited Europe on a speakers tour after the revolutionary days of 2002. Read more...

The "war on terrorism" is used as a pretext to attack west coast dock workers, writes Lesley Day Read more...

Chinese authorities have released Zhang Jingsheng and Li Wangyang, trade union organisers in Hunan province, who were jailed for their part in the 1989 workers' protests against the Tiananmen Massacre. Read more...

Trade unions in Fiji staged a one day strike and demonstration on 22 May against the coup attempt by Fijian nationalist George Speight. Read more...