We publish here an article by Jorge Martin, written at the end of 2014, which analyses the latest developments in the case of the disappeared Ayotzinapa students. Over three months after the police attack on teacher training students in Guerrero, Mexico, details have emerged that cast even more doubts on the official version of events and the level of complicity of the state in the affair.

The United States has admitted that its attempt to bully Cuba into submission had failed. This should be seen as a victory for the Cuban Revolution and its resilience against the relentless onslaught of the most powerful imperialist power. However, US imperialism has not given up on its aims: the restoration of the rule of private property and the destruction of the gains of the revolution; it has just changed the means to achieve the same result.

A grassroots upsurge has swept the US over the past few weeks, its sudden eruption marked by huge marches last weekend on the East Coast and by smaller, broadly based protests across the length and breadth of the country. These protests have popped the lid off a widespread, simmering popular discontent in the USA and given it focus.