Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CHEN Yea-Hung, LUNDBERG Dielle, STOKES Andrew, WRIGLEY-FIELD Elizabeth
Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official (...)
, by DUTRA Israel
More than 20 years later, the Peruvian people have set in motion a mass struggle against a government that wants to assert itself with dictatorial elements.
At this very moment there is a very hard struggle going on in Peru. On one hand, a popular uprising, whose high point was the general (...)
, by Oakland Socialist
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less clear issues.
Benjamin
Benjamin started off by saying how much she respected Bill Fletcher, (...)
, by FIDLER Richard
On January 11, I forwarded to the Socialist Project discussion list an interview with a Polish socialist Zofia Malisz: “Razem: Building a left alternative in Poland.” She explained that when Russia invaded Ukraine her movement, Razem, had “absolutely no doubts that this invasion represented an (...)
, by SONNENBERG Martha
“…new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organization fetters them and keeps them down.” Karl Marx
The recent shooting at a LGBTQ bar in Colorado once again brought to light the hate crimes that the LGBTQ community endures. Homophobia is certainly not (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan, SHALOM Stephen R.
As the left did in nearly all earlier cases of struggles for colonial liberation, so in this one too it should stand with the liberation movement.
The U.S. war against Vietnam provides a rather close analogy to the Russian war against Ukraine. An analogy, of course, is not an equivalence. (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Protestors on both sides of the abortion issue filled streets of major American cities in January as the anti-abortion movement held its annual March for Life demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and other cities, and the Women’s March, that began with Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, (...)
, by SZWARC Lucila
Both the passage and overturning of Roe v. Wade marked historic moments not only for the United States, but also for the rest of the world. With people in the United States stripped of their constitutional right to abortion, now more than ever we must be on high alert and activate our (...)
, by SCHREIBER Melody
Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective
In the fourth year of the pandemic, Covid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Seven thousand nurses struck two of New York City’s largest private hospitals, Montefiore and Mt. Sinai on January 9. Saying that they were “exhausted and burnt out” because of staffing shortages, and with their contract expired on December 31, the nurses maintained huge, spirited picket lines in (...)
, by LEITE José Correa
A decisive democratic struggle has opened against impunity, violence, disregard for life, the multiplication of private militias and the militarization of society. The focus of this struggle is the criminal accountability of [former President Jair] Bolsonaro and his associates for the coup they (...)
, by BAKER John Carl
Ukraine aid, like the war itself, is a point of contention on the international left. Supporters see aid as essential for Ukraine’s defense against an imperialist invader. Skeptics regard it as a giveaway to the war industry at best, a fig leaf for the US empire at worst. The dilemma is that (...)
, by SOLÓN Pablo
A controversial, high-profile detention reveals deep divides within the MAS and an uncertain path forward amid an ongoing conservative backlash.
On December 28, Bolivian authorities violently detained the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, because he did not appear to testify in (...)
, by DUTRA Israel
The actions of 8 January 2023 mimic those of the horde of US neo-fascists two years later, almost like the same script. The invasion of thousands of Bolsonarists into the premises of the National Congress, the Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto Palace, broadcast live on national TV network, (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The far right has for the first time in a hundred years established itself as a force in the U.S. Congress. A group of just ten percent of the Republicans in Congress now has the power to disrupt and paralyze the lower house. The last time a group with links to violent organizations and (...)
, by HYLTON Forrest
To the extent that history repeats itself, it does so in spiral fashion, rather than exactly, and more often as tragedy than farce. Yesterday in Brasília, when a bolsonarista mob briefly invaded the Praça dos Três Poderes and vandalised Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace (...)
, by PSOL
The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.
Bolsonarism continues to act with impunity, promoting this Sunday a kind of “Capitol invasion ” in Brazilian way. The leniency of the security forces of the Federal (...)
, by CSP-Conlutas, International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
The International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles supports and shares this statement of the CSP Conlutas.
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We repudiate the connivance of the federal district government and the police forces with the coup actions
On January 8th, in Brasilia, thousands of (...)
, by HERNANDZEZ AYALA José Luis
On Saturday 28 January 2023, a new political organisation of the Mexican socialist left will emerge, a product of the unification of the membership of the Organización Nacional del Poder Popular (ONPP/National Organisation Peoples Power) and of the Coordinadora Socialista Revolucionaria (CSR). (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The United States faces a complicated immigration crisis. The current crisis revolves around Title 42, a regulation invoked by former president Donald Trump to expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. While President Joe Biden has recently attempted to ended Title 42 expulsions, the rightwing (...)
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