How Movements can Maintain Their Radical Vision While Winning Practical Reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
The Fight for Labor Rights in Mexico
Activists are beginning to undo the damage done by NAFTA. The recent win of an insurgent union to represent workers at the Tridonex auto parts plant in the city of Matamoros, Mexico was a blow to the long unholy alliance between corporations and subservient unions in Mexico.
Why the Popular Movement in Argentina Against the Debt and the IMF Is Important
The “financial vultures” who are tightening the noose of indebtedness in order to gain still greater advantages at a historic moment when humanity is suffering sanitary, humanitarian and ecological disasters, must be denounced.
A Milestone: Venezuela’s Communard Union Stages Its Foundational Congress
Despite facing many challenges, commune-building goes forward in Venezuela, driven by grassroots bases whose commitment comes from their political consciousness. Now, attempts are being made to build unity and coordinate these efforts – the most important being the Communard Union.
‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel
Cuba continues to face great challenges. Yet it’s clear that President Díaz-Canel is leading a profound renewal of the Cuban Revolution in a process that seeks to face these challenges by empowering local leaders and citizens to become democratic problem-solvers within their communities.
How Did Amazon Workers Win So Big?
America’s wealthiest, most powerful, and fiercest anti-union corporation — with the second-largest workforce in the nation (union-busting Walmart being the largest) — lost out to a group of warehouse workers who voted to form a union, by a remarkable 2,654 to 2,131 on April 1.
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Two-Day Bharat Bandh Against ‘Govt’s Anti-People Policies’
The ‘Bharat Bandh’ strike was called for by ten central trade unions against the “anti-worker, anti-farmer, anti-people and anti-national policies” of the Union government. Their demands included scrapping of the new labour codes, no privatisation, increased allocation of wages under MNREGA, among others.
Who Are These Age-Old Female Figures?
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge.
Muslim Women and Shaheen Bagh – Role Models in Long and Untiring Protest
Thanks to the Shaheen Bagh women, my daughters, and a million others, have real life role models.
With an Opposition Inactive for 5 Years, It Was the Farmers’ Protests That Swung West UP
Uttar Pradesh didn’t even have an opposition until now. Today, at least, there is a strong opposition, albeit one that the people have created on their own.