Today is the 35th anniversary of the military coup in Chile that
overthrew the Allende government, putting an end to the revolutionary
process that started in 1970. Here we republish two articles that analyse
the tragic history of the Chilean revolution and counter-revolution and a brief
commentary on the death of the ex-dictator, Augusto Pinochet.

Dutch translation of USA: Socialism – Change We Can Actually Believe In (usa-socialism-change-we-can-actually-believe-in.htm) (September 1, 2008)

During a decade when border issues between the U.S. and Mexico have intensified and the Democrats and Republicans have gone on the attack against immigrants, Socialist Party vice-presidential candidate Stewart A. Alexander is proposing a common U.S.-Mexican currency and establishing a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) for working people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

This statement was
unanimously passed at the World Congress of the International Marxist Tendency.
All efforts must be made to stop the oligarchy's plans to remove Morales, which
they see as a step in the direction of re-establishing their control over the
situation.

On hearing of the nationalisation
of Banco de Venezuela the World Congress of the International Marxist Tendency,
which was sitting at the time, immediately discussed this important measure
taken by the Venezuelan government and passed unanimously this resolution of
support.

Systematic harassment has been carried out
by the authorities in Mexico against Nahúm Pérez Monroy and other student activists of CLEP-CEDEP. Support
the fightback against these repressive methods.

In a television programme broadcasted to
the whole of the country on July 31st, President Chávez announced the nationalisation
of Banco de Venezuela, the Venezuelan bank owned by the Spanish banking
multinational Grupo Santander.

Twenty-one students have been arrested in five cities across Iran. The
following is a translation of a newsletter issued in Shiraz and later posted on
the blog of the revolutionary students of Kermanshah.

Num momento em que toda a esquerda e os que se reivindicam do socialismo
estão rachando e se dividindo, os revolucionários de fato se unem!

Systematic harassment has been carried out
by the authorities in Mexico against student activists of CLEP-CEDEP. Support
the fightback against these repressive methods.