Below is the edited text of speech given by SAM McGILL at 'End sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela' public meeting at Bolivar Hall in London 17 February 2023

This year marks 200 years since the inception of the ‘Monroe

This is the edited text of a speech given by SAM McGILL on the eve of Brazil’s crucial run-off presidential election between the left-wing candidate Luis Ignacio da Silva (Lula) and the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

What

The Mexican national water authority, Conagua, has declared a state of emergency in four states in northern Mexico. The country is currently going through its worst water crisis in 30 years and over half of the country is in drought. Many people are forced to rely

Who killed Berta Caceres?, Nina Lakhani, Verso Books, 2020, 336pp, £19 hardback.

Berta Caceres was a political activist who was murdered at her home in 2015 by gunmen paid by representatives of the Agua Zarca dam

Across Latin America, the working class, indigenous peoples and the rural poor are rising up, forcing the pace of political change on the continent. Over the past two years we have seen: sustained mobilisations in Chile for a new constitution; the defeat of the coup

The contemporary stagnation in both US and EU capital accumulation, further hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, has accelerated the aggressive and militaristic nature of state monopoly capitalism. Today it paints lurid pictures of Russian and Chinese ‘aggressions’ and

On Wednesday 3 March, the Revolutionary Communist Group hosted an informative online meeting ‘Latin America 2021: Resistance and Revolution’. Over 150 participants from Britain and many countries around the world heard from a brilliant line-up of speakers

Guyana is mired in a swirling political crisis. Weeks have passed since the 2 March elections with no winner declared. Amidst accusations of vote rigging, corruption, and the funding of US lobbying firms, US oil giant ExxonMobil has begun producing oil in the

Massive protests across Latin America, in Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Haiti and the electoral victory in Argentina are clear working class responses to the continued vindictive assaults on them by imperialism.

The US

The Revolutionary Communist Group co-ordinated with Latin American activists, socialists and solidarity groups to protest against Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) on 5 November. Almagro visited London to meet with regime

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! No. 109, Mid-September/Mid-November 1992

The Communist Party of Peru (PCP), widely known as the Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path, has been subjected to an international avalanche

On 3 February 2019 Nayib Bukele, an ex-member of the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), was elected president of El Salvador. The 37-year-old opportunist, formerly mayor of the capital San Salvador, stood as leader of the Grand Alliance

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!no. 16, February 1982

This eyewitness account of repression and revolution in Guatemala was given exclusively to FRFI by a journalist recently in Guatemala.

The Revolutionary Communist Group held a midday picket outside the offices of the Guardian and Observer newspapers on 21 December 2018. This was a protest against the blatantly hostile coverage of Venezuela, Nicaragua and, as always, Cuba,

US President Trump’s aggressive and racist attacks on the most recent caravan of migrants heading to the United States, shows the utter contempt that US imperialism has for the poor and the oppressed. In this latest case Trump simply concocted a stream of

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! no. 12, September 1981

El Salvador

In its revolutionary war against the

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! 267 December 2018/January 2019

On 1 November 2018, US National Security Adviser John Bolton declared that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! no. 9, March/April 1981

The wave of revolution engulfing Central America is an uprising

Cuba’s 60-year-old revolutionary democracy is at a historic milestone as it prepares to elect a leader on 19 April who will be part of a new generation taking over from those who originally took part in the 1959 revolution. For the people of socialist Cuba, the

(Alfredo Guevara, Director General of the ICAIC with Che)