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June 1, 2021

Our people can’t wait

Some people think that electing Democrats, especially elite figures from rich and powerful families with direct ties to the status quo of capitalism and imperialism, are going to push through the changes that we need. Given the scale of class inequality, the profound and radical changes needed, and the recent struggles nationally and internationally, is it possible to continue to place our hopes in the current two-party system or do we need to beyond for the vehicle(s) that we need to carry out the kinds of changes needed that much of the working class have been or are already fighting for?

May 13, 2021

by Zack Frailey Escobar

The Colombian Working Class Against Neoliberalism and Imperialism

In the aftermath of the pandemic, Colombians are striking and demonstrating against austerity and police repression in a historic rebellion. The uprising highlights the power workers hold – and if the rising is successful, it could spell the end of decades of right-wing rule.

May 12, 2021

by Susana Fuentes

Encapsulamiento: origen de la violencia del 8M en México

Tres días previos al 8M, el viernes cinco de marzo del 2021, los monumentos más
representativos de México amanecieron amurallados por vallas de acero de tres
metros de alto: el Monumento a la Revolución, el Ángel de la Independencia, el Palacio
de Bellas Artes, junto con el Palacio Nacional, residencia oficial del actual presidente
de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Instituciones y residencias privadas
siguieron el ejemplo gubernamental en los siguientes días: la residencia privada de
Andrés Roemer en la colonia Roma, escritor y ex-embajador de buena voluntad de la
UNESCO quien presenta 61 denuncias por acoso y abuso sexual, así como el hotel
Hilton y banco Banorte en la Avenida Juárez, tapizaron la ciudad de acero y madera.

May 10, 2021

by Susanna de Guio y Gianpaolo Contestabile

El estallido colombiano: segundo acto

37 asesinatos de manifestantes perpetrados por la policía, 234 casos de agresiones violentas, incluidos 26 con lesiones oculares, 15 casos de violencia sexual y de género, 66 agresiones a defensores de derechos humanos y periodistas y 1728 detenciones arbitrarias es el saldo alarmante de los nueve días de Paro Nacional convocado por los sindicatos colombianos, según reportan la campaña Defender la Libertad y TembloresONG.
La masacre que están perpetrando las fuerzas policiales en Colombia ya alcanzó la atención internacional, desde los medios independientes y las redes sociales se solicita la difusión de los cientos de abusos registrados, mientras que en distintas ciudades se denuncia la censura a través de la interrupción de la señal de internet. Además el martes 4 de mayo un portavoz de las Naciones Unidas expresó una fuerte condena con respecto a la conducta de las fuerzas públicas colombianas: “Estamos profundamente preocupados por cómo evolucionó la situación en Cali durante la noche, donde la policía abrió fuego contra los manifestantes y varias personas murieron o resultaron heridas”.

April 27, 2021

by Anonymous Tejana

Eyewitness to Kids in Cages

In the beginning of March, I traveled to my birthplace of Dallas, Tejas. I made the difficult decision to travel and visit family after two years. I have always possessed conflicting feelings about what returning “home” means to me. In a state that historically was part of México and tries to erase this fact. On land historically belonging to indigenous people that was stolen. I am reminded of the quote, “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.” Yet, the racist politicians in power fight to keep those who have been forced to migrate due to U.S. imperialist invention from seeking refuge. As immigrants and Xicanos being told and made to feel that we do not belong. A state that loves our “culture” but in the same vein demands that we only speak English.

April 22, 2021

by Edgard Sánchez

AMLO’s MORENA at a crossroads as Mexico heads towards midterm elections

As Mexico heads towards midterm elections, it’s a key moment to analyze the trajectory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his political party, the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena). While there was mass euphoria after his triumph against the traditional PRI-PAN dictatorship in 2018, three years into his mandate, the limits and betrayals of his political project are in full view.

April 13, 2021

by Zack Frailey Escobar

Bolivia: The golpistas must be punished

The return to power of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after the 2019 coup, has been followed by a swift effort to hold the golpistas accountable. In response, the US media has taken up the State Department’s line, shedding crocodile tears over alleged civil rights abuses. Ironically, these same voices utterly failed to condemn a right-wing coup which led to a year-long period of political violence that left at least 30 dead and thousands more injured or arrested. These disingenuous commentators are now wringing their hands over the arrest and prosecution of the guilty parties. Those of us concerned with genuine democracy in Latin America should ignore them, looking at similar machinations that previously occurred in Brazil.

April 6, 2021

by Heather Lea Ramírez

#WatchingForChange: Las Deportaciones Continúan Bajo el Mandato de Biden

“La Administración puede decidir no deportar a nadie, dejando de lado la Orden de Restricción Temporal (TRO). La moral, la humanidad y las obligaciones internacionales que exigen a la Administración que cumpla. De lo contrario, Estados Unidos está fletando aviones de la muerte”.

Han pasado menos de tres meses desde que el presidente Biden asumió el cargo. A pesar de la salida de Trump, muchas organizaciones y activistas por los derechos de los inmigrantes reconocen que la lucha está lejos de terminar. El primer día que tomó posesión de su cargo, Biden firmó una orden ejecutiva para una moratoria de deportaciones de 100 días, una pausa de deportaciones de ciertos individuos seleccionados.

March 29, 2021

by Michael Brown

Black Struggle is Class Struggle

Whether or not Amazon, a global behemoth and now trillion-dollar corporation, will be forced to eventually collectively bargain with a unionized workforce at its fulfillment center warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama hinges upon the votes of nearly 6,000 workers. Despite its characterization as a Red State in the Deep South, the workers in Alabama are at the forefront of a new effort to re-build the U.S. labor movement.

If successful, the union drive by mail-in vote concluding on March 29th would mark the first time an Amazon facility in the U.S. is successfully unionized. A pro-union vote would be a win for the entire of the working

March 8, 2021

by Simone Scaffidi and Gianpaolo Contestabile

Guatemala: We’re hurting for 56, we’re missing 41

March 8 is a key date for the feminist movement in different parts of the world. In Guatemala, in addition to the demands against machista violence and to expand reproductive rights, there is also the demand for justice for the 56 adolescents and girls of the massacre at Hogar Seguro. “On March 8, 2017, the State of Guatemala is going to commit a violent and feminicidal act against 56 girls who were seeking to escape from the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, where they were enduring abuse and demanding rights to recreation, food and education” explains Lorena Cabnal, defender of the Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario Territorial (Network of Ancestral Healers of Territorial Community Feminism).