Some 60,000 died, huge numbers were tortured and driven into exile, the parties of the left were banned and driven underground. Mike Macnair asks if any strategic lessons were learnt
Rubiales is being subjected to a ferocious witch-hunt by the media, in a campaign Spain’s politicians are only too happy to see drown out the major political issues confronting the working class.
Chile has launched the first-ever government project to determine the fate of more than a thousand people who disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who grabbed power in a coup 50 years ago.
That conditions across Syria are dire is indisputable, but primary responsibility for this rests with US imperialism and its European counterparts. Syrian workers must mount an independent struggle against their own ruling class and imperialism.