The decision of the British-ruled Falkland Islands to grant British oil companies the right to start drilling for oil off the South Atlantic colony has sparked fresh calls across South America for Britain to get out. Richard Brenner reports Read more...

Tim West reports on the historic victory at the Zanon factory in Argentina, and interviews workers and activists involved in the struggle Read more...

Time West, reports on the militant struggle taking place at Kraft foods in Argentina Read more...

President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner's claim in October that Argentina was "decoupled" from the global economy is looking ever more ridiculous. The car industry is already feeling the first effects of the international economic downturn. Read more...

Argentina elected a new president last month. Cristina Kirchner will succeed her husband Nestor next May. It was a surprise that Nestor stood way for his wife, but under the Argentinean constitution a president can only serve for two terms. Read more...

The outcome of the first round of the Argentine presidential elections last month is a calamity for the left and a boost for the previously discredited parties that bear responsibility for plunging the country into economic depression and political convulsions since December 2001. Read more...

Zanon is a ceramics factory in Neuquen, in the south-west of Argentina, which has been occupied for over a year by its workers. The Zanon workers continue to produce despite several attempts to evict them, which they have successfully prevented. Read more...

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...