Press Statement Concerning the Youth Movement in the Capital, Tripoli. The city of Tripoli is witnessing these days a popular youth movement to denounce the poor living conditions the citizen suffers from power cuts, lack of liquidity, spread of disease, crime and mercenaries in the streets of the capital, foreign interference in Libyan affairs, and…
Category: REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
Mutual Aid and Survival as Resistance in Puerto Rico
Isa Rodríguez Soto Faced with an onslaught of disasters, government mismanagement of life-threatening crises, and the injustices of colonialism, Puerto Rican communities have bet on their own survival. Their mutual aid efforts testify to both the power of grassroots organizing and the scale of state neglect. I grew up hearing a common saying in Puerto…
A Century After U.S. Military Intervention in Ceiba and the Return of Territorial Concessions
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils Roatán Próspera housing complex for Honduras On August 17, it was a century since the arrival of the USS Sacramento to the port of La Ceiba, with the purpose of protecting the interests of the brothers of “Sicilian” Vaccaro and his banana company the Standard Fruit Company, which was confronting a…
Brazil: Life Lessons and Resistance of the MST
Carlos Aznarez Recently the Brazilian regime, through the action of its repressive forces, invaded and destroyed a part of the camp that the Landless Movement of Brazil had been maintaining for 20 years in Quilombo Grande do Campo, in Mina Gerais. It is not surprising that this should happen, since the MST is in the…
Chiapas on Fire
Luis Hernández Navarro 2001, Zapatista leadership, Photo: Bill Hackwell Chiapas is on fire. The bosses of the paramilitary forces have turned them loose and they have become bold enough to act in their typical way. They are attacking rebel communities with firearms and are even showing up armed and in uniform, to disarm government police…
Challenges for Social Movements in Abya Yala After the Pandemic
Ollantay Itzamná Woman from Cotopaxi, Ecuador. Social protest. 2019. Internet In the post-pandemic period, the dispute for the control of the State (as a guarantor of rights) should be an essential bet for the social movements. That is, social movements are called to move from being social subjects to socio-political subjects. The three decades prior…
Mapuche People, Racism is Not Gratuitous
Marcos Roitman Rosenmann To the Mapuche people and political prisoners With the exception of the period of Popular Unity (1970-1973), the Chilean state has exercised violence, murder and lies against Wallmapu. The Mapuche people have resisted and continue to resist. Hatred and racism take on new forms and are recreated by governments of different colors….
Libyan People’s National Movement on Statements Made by Libyan Political Parties
The Libyan National People’s Movement followed with interest the statements issued by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Presidential Council related to the ceasefire, and the movement renewed its firm position on the need to reach a peaceful national solution to the crisis mainly resulting from foreign interference, and…
Caribbean Food Sovereignty During Covid-19
Kasmine D. ForbesCassava production in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT). Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, disruptions to global food and agriculture prompted Caribbean nation-states to increase local food production to enhance regional food security. In the wake of such efforts, the Caribbean Agricultural Research Institute (CARDI) unveiled a comprehensive plan to support these small…
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism. “The resolution to racial capitalism is antiracist socialism.” In recent years, “racial capitalism” has ascended across the humanities and social sciences. It has arisen as a conceptual framework to understand the mutually constitutive nature of racialization and capitalist exploitation, inter alia, on a…
Venezuela: The Real Enemy
Pascualina Curcio We became an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. imperialism in 1999. From that moment on, our enemy declared war, not a conventional war, but war nonetheless. At the beginning they covered their faces with the masks of the Meritocrats of PDVSA, Fedecamaras, the CTV and the political forces of the opposition. Today,…
Adriana Guzmán: We Will Never Be Your Domestics Again
An episode of the documentary “Historias debidas”, on the plurinacional news portal, recounts the journey of the plurinacional feminist delegation through Bolivia after the coup. This is a conversation with Adriana Guzmán about intransigence and resistance. Stories that must be told The media are de facto accomplices of the government, they functionalize the Catholic and…
