Mauricio Saavedra
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Trotskyist, World Socialist Web Site reporter covering Latin American politics
Santiago, Chile
Joined April 2020
En la carrera presidencial chilena de 2025, Jeannette Jara, miembro del Partido Comunista y candidata presidencial de la alianza 'Unidad por Chile', lidera las encuestas. Las elecciones de noviembre plantean la posibilidad de que, por primera vez en sus 103 años de historia, el
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Jara del PC encabeza una alianza de derecha que profundizará el programa de austeridad fiscal pro mercado y autoritarismo de estado policial que ha caracterizado al gobierno de Gabriel Boric.
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Camarada David Neita, presente. Ahora y siempre David Neita: January 5, 1948 – October 30, 2025
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David Neita, who played a leading role in the Workers League (predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party) during the 1970s, died on October 30 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
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Good 2014 article on the role of Lula's party the PT and their protection of the military apparatus responsible for heinous crimes against the people. It reveals the long arm of the CIA in these crimes and that of the Brazilian businessmen, both intimately involved in torture and
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Even as she broke into tears at a ceremony accepting the report, President Rousseff reiterated her government’s support for an amnesty for military killers and torturers.
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US hands off Latin America! Halt Trump’s killing spree! "Workers on both sides of the Rio Grande must grasp the reality that they are the real target of imperialism and must join hands across national borders in a unified struggle against imperialist war and to put an end to the
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A pair of US missile strikes over the weekend brought the toll from the Trump administration’s criminal military campaign off South America’s coasts to at least 76.
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<em>The Disappearance of Josef Mengele</em>: An outstanding film about the Nazi war criminal in exile
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The film by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, currently showing in German cinemas, is an outstanding work that nevertheless leaves viewers with a feeling of perplexity.
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Extraordinary tribute of an extraordinary Trotskyist fighter
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Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los...
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"We call on readers of the World Socialist Web Site and all defenders of democratic rights to oppose this unacceptable intervention and share our statement as widely as possible"-Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program https://t.co/FcWcuvz028
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The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Office demanding that it change its program. It...
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Alan Gelfand was a courageous Trotskyist that allied with the International Committee of the Fourth International to expose the massive infiltration of the American SWP by Washington's agents as part of COINTELPRO. The SWP was in the late 30s also infiltrated by agents working
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Alan Gelfand, whose lawsuit against the US government led to the exposure of high-level agents of the FBI and Soviet secret police in the Socialist Workers Party, died Wednesday, October 29, in Los...
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Attend "Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructurin... https://t.co/RUIhF6LyVn via @YouTube
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Elon Musk’s $1 trillion payout and the case for expropriation
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The awarding of Musk’s pay package is, at the same time, a declaration of intent by the ruling class to massively impoverish the working class through layoffs, austerity and the destruction of social...
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Astrophysicist Carl Sagan (1934) – Maintained confidence in the power of reason, the ability of man to grasp objective truth. Sagan smuggled Trotsky’s works into the USSR in the 1980s, seeing it as a weapon against Stalin’s falsifications and attacks on reason and progress.
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More than a diplomatic provocation, the letter issued Wednesday is one of several indications of Washington’s direct participation in the preparation of the massacre in Rio de Janeiro and in using it to further an ongoing fascist conspiracy in Brazil. On Monday, the PT leader in
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The letter, which provocatively clashed with Lula’s federal government, represents a new intervention in Brazil’s internal affairs.
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American support for Israel, speaker, Peter Schwarz, a member of the WSWS international editorial board, explained, has nothing to do with sympathy for the Jews or reparations for the Holocaust. “The US arms Israel—Republicans and Democrats are at one on this—because they need
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The event was the only one at the fair that addressed the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the danger of a third world war.
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Oxfam's latest report on the US notes that the “past year has been indelibly shaped by concentrated wealth and power.” It cites data showing that in the past 12 months alone, the 10 richest US billionaires got approximately $700 billion richer. Over this period, their wealth grew
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The domination of the United States by a parasitic oligarchy, whose seat of power is in the White House, is on display for everyone to see.
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The recklessness of the operation, conducted during morning traffic, beside a school, demonstrates the murderous character of ICE and the fascistic methods of the Trump administration. Parias was denied access to his attorney for more than 24 hour and remains in Los Angeles
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ICE agents fired 11 shots at Carlitos Ricardo Parias on October 21 for exposing the daily repression of immigrants in Los Angeles
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The DOL report, released only after a judge ordered Biden & Trump admins to reply, justifies every abuse committed by the UAW bureaucracy. An election where 91% of 1.1 million members were effectively excluded by the UAW did not overturn the DOL’s conclusion that “no violations
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The department dismissed the complaint of Will Lehman, a socialist Mack Trucks worker and candidate for UAW president in 2022, documenting mass disenfranchisement in the government-supervised...
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The global markets and corporate elites collectively breathed a sigh of relief that the summit had averted an immediate rupture between the world’s two largest economies. But no one is under any illusion that the truce is anything but temporary and could blow up at any time. The
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Trump’s brandishing of the nuclear threat immediately prior to meeting Xi is the sharpest warning that the US is preparing for all-out war against China.
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In the months since the PM and ASIO claimed that Iran had been involved in antisemitic incidents in Australia, what has emerged points to a politically motivated campaign sponsored by Mossad, an agency notorious for misinformation, dirty tricks, assassination & sabotage.
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The NSW Police have admitted that they have no evidence whatsoever of Iranian involvement, months after it was trumpeted as fact by the federal Labor government and ASIO.
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The exposure and discrediting of the New York Times is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness. The Times, the “paper of record,” plays a significant role in shaping public opinion in the US. It
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The exposure and discrediting of the Times is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness.
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Terrible discovery that Australian rainforests are becoming a net source of carbon emissions
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Based on a half century of data, new research shows that woody biomass, a major component of tropical rainforest ecosystems, has become a net emitter of carbon dioxide.
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While the outcome is being touted in the media as an endorsement of Milei’s economic agenda of harsh austerity—symbolized by his wielding a chainsaw—the mid-terms saw the lowest turnout (67 percent) since the fall of the dictatorship in 1983.
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While the outcome is touted by the media as a popular endorsement of Milei’s economic austerity agenda, the mid-terms saw the lowest turnout since the end of the dictatorship in 1983.
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