In Ecuador, Indigenous-led National Strike Intensifies
Ten days into the strongest challenge yet to President Guillermo Lasso’s government, the protests only appear to be growing.
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Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade
The final declaration of the Workers Summit called for a robust internationalism to promote solidarity with the sovereign nations and peoples suffering from sanctions imposed by the US and its allies. Latin America and the Caribbean were proclaimed a zone of peace. Also: “People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles Ends with a Bold Plan for the Future”
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Ecuador: National Strike Continues – 2 Articles
Mobilizations will continue and key roads remain blocked as the indefinite Ecuador-wide protests against the neoliberal policies of Guillermo Lasso’s administration head into a fourth day.
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Honduras: Xiomara Castro’s Government, Advancing Along a Mined Road
Five months of the revolutionary government, with eyes on the re-foundation of Honduras and watching their backs.
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How Kazakhstan’s Mothers Formed a Protest Movement – and What They Want
The mothers were the first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history.
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Cuba Lives, Breathes, Resists – May Day, COVID, Guantánamo, & the Summit of the Americas
May Day 2022 was a chance for Cuba to welcome tens of thousands of international guests to uphold the vision of International Workers’ Day and demonstrate that global solidarity with Cuba lives. The author too visited Cuba. Her inspiring report.
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U.S. Govt’s Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
The Summit of the Americas, that began on June 6, has proved to be a major diplomatic failure for the US administration. In protest against Washington’s refusal to invite the Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, and Honduras boycotted the summit.
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Mapping U.S. Imperialism
U.S. imperialism is the greatest threat to life on the planet. The exact death toll of U.S. imperialism is both staggering and impossible to know. What we do know is that since World War 2, U.S. imperialism has killed at least 36 million people globally.
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A History of Naked Imperialism Continues as Biden Approves Somalia Redeployment
Biden has reversed Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US forces from Somalia and will redeploy Special Operations Forces. It is just the latest move in a long history of destructive US-UK meddling in the Horn of Africa.
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Slovenia: After Far-Right Defeat in Elections, Radical Left Faces New Challenges
Slovenia’s parliamentary elections saw the defeat of the far-right and a surprise victory for Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement, which was set up less than a year ago by green and liberal forces. A discussion on the significance of the election result with Miha Kordiš from the left party, Levica.
