A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia
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A New Progressive Movement Scores Landslide Local Victories in Colombia

Will Freeman Editorial note: In October 2019, Colombia held its first local and regional elections since the 2016 signing of the peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which ended a gruesome half century of civil war. The right wing suffered significant defeats in the local elections. Among the…

Haitians Commemorate Liberator Dessalines with Huge Mobilisations
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Haitians Commemorate Liberator Dessalines with Huge Mobilisations

Courtesy: Green Left Weekly Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Haiti on October 17 to commemorate the national revolutionary and liberator Jean-Jacques Dessalines and to demand the resignation of United States-backed president Jovenel Moïse. Several huge mobilisations occurred across the country demanding an end to Moïse’s anti-people, corrupt and neoliberal government….

Chile and Her History of Western Interference
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Chile and Her History of Western Interference

Peter Koenig Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country’s major cities, since the return to ‘democracy’ in 1990. A weeklong of fire, teargas and police brutality, left at least 20 people dead, thousands arrested and injured. More than 1.2 million people protested on October…

Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency
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Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency

Courtesy: Telesur On October 24, after counting 99.9% of votes, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Bolivia (TSE) declared Evo Morales as the official winner of the presidential elections held in the country on October 20. Morales, of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), received 47.07% of votes and a lead of 10.56% over the second runner,…

The Political Tide Sweeping South America Won’t Accept Predatory Capitalism
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The Political Tide Sweeping South America Won’t Accept Predatory Capitalism

Vijay Prashad The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it was drawn on the walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in a more sober register, it is mentioned in a seminar in Mexico City, Mexico. Elections and protests rattle the continent. The protest by…

Argentina Says: ‘Bye Macri!’

Argentina Says: ‘Bye Macri!’

Courtesy: People’s Dispatch Center-left candidate Alberto Fernández and his vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Frente de Todos (The Front for All) coalition defeated the neoliberal president Mauricio Macri in the general elections held in Argentina on October 27. After counting 97% of the votes, the Fernández ticket received 48.1% of the votes,…

Haste and Brinkmanship Inadvisable in Reaching a Naga Accord

Haste and Brinkmanship Inadvisable in Reaching a Naga Accord

Sandeep Pandey, Babloo Loitongbam & Meera Sanghamitra Thuingaleng Muivah, the supreme leader of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) says that Nagaland may be weaker in material sense but it is strong in politics. No wonder, the organisation which started off as an insurgent group was able to engage the Government of India in…