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Long one of Latin America’s most conservative countries, Colombia is undergoing a sea change. The second general strike in as many years evolved rapidly into a nationwide urban insurrection. ‘La Resistencia’ has endured for a month in the teeth of ferocious repression (remember that Lenin (...)
The collective decision to stage a strike during the Covid-19 pandemic has a unique feature that cannot go unnoticed.
Tragic Action
The call for Colombians to go out and protest in the streets came on April 28th, 2021. After a year of strict confinement, isolation from family, the (...)
“Neoliberalism does not die without killing, but the more it kills, the more it dies. What is happening in Colombia is not a Colombian problem, it is our problem, that of the democrats of the world,” Boaventura Dos Santos.
The 28 April 2021 marked a new stage in the history of mobilization and (...)
The Duque government massacres against the Colombian people must be stopped!
After the spectacular uprisings in Ecuador and Chile in 2019, we are witnessing a huge rebellion of the Colombian people, who, after last Sunday’s partial victory - with the government’s withdrawal of its tax (...)
Coronavirus has changed economic relations in rural Colombia, pushing campesinos to question extractive economies and offering an alternative model of production.
Fabio Muñoz is pissed off. In the context of a national fear of coronavirus, he was called a hero on the radio, he says. And it (...)
Despite two successful strikes in as many years, working in Colombia’s public universities is tough. Last November, I wrote about a tide of social protest led by public school teachers and university students that became a nationwide general strike. The government and narco-paramilitaries (...)
On 21 November 2019 Colombia experienced a social explosion unprecedented in the history of the country since the middle of the last century. On that day, the National Strike Directorate (CNP, Comando Nacional de Paro) called for a protest march against the announcement of regressive economic (...)
Colombia’s national civic strike is paving the way for a rural-urban coalition of protesters and movements that together can take on President Duque’s right-wing government.
A specter is haunting Latin America — the specter of class struggle. From Haiti, Ecuador and Peru to Chile — until one (...)
Men in YouTube video lambast the Colombian president, Iván Duque, and his government for not keeping its end of the deal
Two former commanders of the demobilised Colombian rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Farc, have announced a that they are returning to war, nearly three (...)
Nearly two years after the signing of a historic peace agreement, violence in the country continues
At least 123 activists, community leaders and human rights defenders have been murdered in Colombia this year. Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images
Enrique Fernández cannot remember the (...)
With peace reached in Colombia after 53 years of conflict, demobilised guerilla insurgents of the FARC are directing their attention to non- violent activity: agitating political debate in the nation. Join us on a tour inside their own TV station, Nueva Colombia Noticias (New Colombia News) (...)
Colombia’s peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left. In November 2016 the Colombian Congress approved a peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, potentially ending a 50-year armed (...)
On October 2, 2016, Colombia’s referendum on the approval of the peace agreement between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP – Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Army of the People) resulted in a rejection of the (...)
MEDELLÍN, Colombia — The rules for domestic workers were unwritten but clear to everyone back in 1996, when María Roa joined the throngs of Colombian women who fled violence in rural areas and set out to rebuild their lives in the relative safety of big cities.
The shifts were long: 16-hour days, (...)
An Open Letter - Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern regarding lack of guarantees
To the President of Colombia
To the Governments of the European Union, the countries of Europe, and the United States
To Public Opinion
October 13th, 2015
Subject: Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern (...)
A LabourStart Campaign in partnership with Justice for Colombia, a British NGO that campaigns for human rights, workers’ rights and the search for peace with social justice in Colombia. JFC is currently part of an international coalition together with Colombian organizations campaigning for the (...)
Land is at the centre of the peace negotiations in Havana between Colombia’s Santos government and the FARC guerrilla movement. It is no accident that the first point on the agenda is recognizing the centrality of the land to the Colombian conflict. It should not be forgotten that the FARC arose (...)
This document was written to provide history on the struggle of Colombian GM workers at the Colmotres assembly plant in Bogota, Columbia. A number of injured workers, most of whom were injured on the job, have been fired from the plant. The ongoing occupation outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, (...)
THE GENERAL MOTORS subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer. To disappear medical records, falsify documents, and hide evidence of poor working conditions, Colmotores resorted to bribing judges, lawyers, (...)
Perhaps neither side is entering these negotiations with the loftiest of motives, but the outcome could still be positive for Colombians.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian government (...)
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