teleSUR “The big powers come to govern the country (…) they want to take away our Argentine flag and they want to impose on us a colonization flag”. Milagro Sala On the 1,000th day of Milagro Sala’s detention, unions, political parties and social organizations marched to demand her freedom. To understand her situation on an…
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Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues its Struggle: Interview with Mqapheli George Bonono
Zoe PC On Monday, thousands of members of the organization Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, along with their allies from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and other movements, marched in Durban against state repression and attacks that they have suffered as a movement. Peoples Dispatch had the opportunity to speak with…
Colombian Social Organizations Send an Open Letter to Iván Duque
Colombia Informa Various social organizations gathered in the Popular Assembly wrote a letter to the government of Iván Duque. They demand measures to protect social leaders, to stop criminalization of social justice movements and to allocate more resources towards education. More than 1300 leaders of social organizations gathered in Bogotá expressed their concern about the…
Internationalist Seminar Concluded in Bogotá
Colombia Informa Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle”, concludes: “Construction of Popular Power, in the dispute for the hegemony that allows us the emancipation of all forms of domination and the construction of a just society, in unity, in harmony with mother Earth”. From October 6-11, the Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle” was held…
Colombian Social Movements Converge in Bogotá to Build Common Struggles
Peoples Dispatch Photo: Colombia Informa The Popular and People’s Legislative Assembly began Tuesday in Colombia’s capital for the construction of a common struggle On October 9, 2018, more than 1,500 people gathered at the Claretiano School in Bosa, in the south of Bogota, Colombia, to begin the Popular and People’s Legislative Assembly. This assembly is…
Colombia’s Peace Crumbles as Social Leaders Killed With Impunity
Valerie Carmel “In a country subsumed in terror and violence, it is easier to subdue the population and enslave them to work in favor of big capital.” (Camilo Bonilla, 2018) Two years after Colombia signed the final peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) the war against Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and Campesino communities,…
Revoking the Registration of Mediterranean Migrant Rescue Ship Places Thousands of Lives in Peril
The ship was leased by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins Sans Frontières and was instrumental in saving the lives of around 10,000 refugees stranded at sea Anthony Jean | SOS Méditerranée On September 23, Panama government revoked the registration of the private migrant rescue vessel Aquarius 2 allegedly under pressure from the Italian government. The ship…
New Guard Fascists: What Syria Continues to Teach Us
Danny Haiphong Image: Operation Dawn of Idlib: Units of the Syrian 1st Armored Division en route North Leftists should turn their attention to the New Guard Fascists — the enemies of the people at the top of the class structure and the armed body, the state, that protects the class structure. “New guard fascism controls…
“The IACHR and the Special Monitoring Mechanism for Nicaragua said they found no signs of torture in the Office of Judicial Assistance facility. Nor have we”
Tortilla Con Sal Interview with Lic. Corina Centeno Rocha, Procurator of the Legal Office for the Defense of Human Rights Tortilla con Sal: What has been the work of the Legal Office for the Defense of Human Rights in Nicaragua in the context of the failed coup attempt between April 18th and early July this…
Uganda: Profiling US Meddling Across Africa
Tony Cartalucci While China builds roads, rail, pipelines, airports, seaports, and factories across Africa, the United States finds itself resigned to selling weapons and stirring up conflicts between and within African states to disrupt the rise of the continent independent of Western hegemony. Part of stirring up conflict involves political subversion. In Uganda, the US…
Production and Conflict in El Maizal Commune
Ricardo Vaz In this article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at the relation between the commune and state companies, and explore the contradictions that emerge as the communal project moves forward. El Maizal Commune spreads over the states of Lara and Portuguesa,…
France 24 Interview with President Daniel Ortega
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