Marco Teruggi There are celebrations in Ecuador. They began Sunday night when the national government and the Indigenous movement centrally grouped in the Coordinadora de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (Conaie) announced that they had reached an agreement on Decree 883, which removed gasoline subsidies. The response was twofold. On the one hand, the streets were…
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The Battle of Ecuador is Latin America’s Fight for Sovereignty, Democracy and Prosperity
The state of emergency, transfer of the government to the city of Guayaquil, military deployment, absurd accusations of interference by Venezuela, curfew and assassinations at the hands of the security forces. Workers, women, students, teachers, professionals, peasants and indigenous people, the drones, as Moreno defined them, corner a government that is implementing measures defined by…
The Win-Win Situation Hidden Behind the Amazonia Fires
Real World Radio “How agribusiness and financial markets profit from the devastation of the world´s largest tropical forest”. In this first part of a series of two audio-visual reports, Friends of the Earth Brazil unravels the forces behind the crimes that take place in Brazilian forests. In its second part, the organization analyzes, together with…
Social Reproduction: A Theoretical Framework with Organizing Potential
Hannah Dickinson Bioretention Gardens in Detroit. Source: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. The following article first appeared in Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. Cooking meals, accessing healthcare, doing the laundry, caring for children and the elderly, and taking out the trash are daily activities. We rarely think of…
Venezuela’s Altos de Lídice Commune
“We need to transcend to the communal government…to the structures of communal power, popular power, self-government, communal auditing, and general self-management.” Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías Álo Presidente Teórico N. 1 June 11, 2009 The Altos de Lídice Commune is an urban commune located in western Caracas. Formed less than two years ago, the commune emerged…
OFRANEH Declaration on the Extermination of the Leaders and Members of the Garifuna Communities
We, the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH), express our deep concern about the escalation of violent deaths and the extermination of the inhabitants of the Garifuna communities, mainly women, without any investigation by the authorities into these murders. So far in the months of September and October, six (6) Garifuna women have been violently murdered…
The Turkish Attack on Rojava: Iran is No Longer the Target of the United States in Syria
Elijah J. Magnier Although the Turkish attack on the Syrian Kurds in Northeast Syria (NES) only involves the conquest of a 32 km buffer zone on the border, the Ankara offensive could achieve quite different goals provided that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan respects the agreements made with Russia and the United States that allowed…
The Two Phases of the Destabilizing Offensive Against Evo Morales
Hugo Moldiz Mercado An offensive in two phases, to be developed before and after the October 20 elections in Bolivia, is part of the destabilization strategy that the opposition bloc is deploying against Evo Morales and the continuity of the Process of Change. It is entering the final two weeks until an election of great…
ALBA Movimientos Declaration: Stop the Genocide of the Kurdish People
Again the despot of Turkey, Recip Erdogan attacks the Kurdish people again under the account of fight against “terrorists”. This time under the protection of the USA, which by Trump’s decision abandons the battle against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The main terrorist is Erdogan himself with his neo-Otomomanist dictatorship and the main threat to peace…
Evo Morales: “What We Have Done is Re-found Bolivia, End the Colonial State and Create a Plurinational State”.
Cris González Days before the October 20th presidential elections, President Evo Morales gave an exclusive interview to Correo del Alba, where he takes stock of the Process of Change and delves into Bolivia’s medium-term future in the face of the bicentennial. How would you define Bolivia before the Process of Change? As a country without…
The Crisis of Rentier Capitalism in Venezuela
Cira Pascual Marquina Oscar Figuera is secretary-general of the Venezuelan Communist Party (henceforth PCV or Communist Party). As a 17-year-old metal worker in Aragua state, he began union organizing with the Venezuelan Worker’s Unitary Central (CUTV, the PCV’s union). In 1986 he became Secretary-General of the PCV union. Figuera was elected to Venezuela’s National Assembly…
Under Capitalism, Even Water is a Tool of Oppression
* Meg Hill A man sells bottled water in Lagos, Nigeria PHOTO: Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye All life depends on water. It covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, makes up 60 percent of our bodies and literally falls from the sky. It’s abundant and indispensable. But under capitalism, even water is a tool of social domination….
