Chanting “resign now” to Bolivia’s interim, self-declared president Jeanine Añez, protesters across the Latin American country on Friday made their displeasure with the overthrow of the government by right-wing Christian extremists last Sunday known. Thousands […]
Protests against the civic-military coup have been growing in strength across the country and security forces have responded with brutal repression Bolivian security forces killed as many as five protesters on November 15 near the […]
On this occasion they were peasants with red ponchos, men and women with hats, coming from afar, from the highlands. Then they joined those from the city of Alto, those who could get there, others […]
The Counter-Coup from El Alto Forced Jeanine Áñez’s Self-proclamation During the colonial era, Cerro Rico de Potosí in Bolivia was the focus of Europe’s looting of gigantic quantities of silver ore. At the beginning of […]
The Cuban government on Friday demanded the release of four health workers unjustly detained in Bolivia, and announced the immediate withdrawal of members of its medical mission in the Andean country. A statement from the […]
En las últimas horas distintas autoridades actuantes en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia han presentado la idea de que colaboradores cubanos alientan las protestas que se están produciendo en Bolivia, a lo que se une […]
“Welcome to the dictatorship,” said one woman as she ran from tear gas, motorcycles, pickup trucks with arrested youth, and military tanks. The scene was in the center of the city of La Paz, in […]
Repression increases in Bolivia against Evo Morales’ supporters La Paz, Nov. 13 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian police today violently prevented Senator Adriana Salvatierra from entering Parliament as evidence of increased repression against Evo Morales’ supporters. The […]
As news spread of the Nov. 10 right-wing coup against President Evo Morales, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and Indigenous communities of Bolivia, anti-imperialists and progressive forces worldwide prepared to take action. In the U.S., […]
Bolivian people have taken to the streets to resist the civic-military coup d’état carried out against President Evo Morales and Vice-President Alvaro García Linera which culminated in their forced resignation on Sunday November 10. Due […]
The center of La Paz has been transformed into a scenario of barricades, queues to purchase in the few businesses that are open, transportation halted, neighbours stationed on corners crossed by barbed wires and […]
November 12, 2019 Faced with a media siege that confronts the truth in our country, the Movement Towards Socialism sends this communiqué to the Bolivian people and the international community that since November 10, 2019, […]
12 noviembre, 2019 Ante el cerco mediático que enfrenta la verdad en nuestro país, el Movimiento al Socialismo comunica al pueblo boliviano y la comunidad internacional que desde anoche 10 de noviembre de 2019 se […]
The Sunday military coup in Bolivia has put in place a government which appears likely to reverse a decision by just-resigned President Evo Morales to cancel an agreement with a German company for developing lithium […]
Nov. 7 — For the 28th year in a row, an almost unanimous United Nations General Assembly demanded an end to the United States economic blockade of Cuba. Over 7 billion people live in the […]
On Nov. 9, some 20 protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office in Bel Air, Md., to demand truth and justice for Marlyn Barnes and all prisoners. Barnes, an African American […]
New York, Nov. 6 — Housing activists gathered on the steps of City Hall today and said no to the privatization of the largest public housing system in the U.S. Developers want to kick out […]
After 11 days on strike, delegates of Chicago Teachers Union have suspended the Chicago teachers’ walkout and members are headed back to their classrooms. A tentative agreement has been reached with Chicago Public Schools that […]
An Oct. 4 tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey regarding the Hong Kong protests started a series of events that have continued to play out in the mainstream media over the last several […]
New York, Oct. 30 — Ten thousand transit workers jammed Manhattan’s lower tip tonight to say “No!” to the Mass Transit Administration’s giveback demands. MTA chairman Pat Foye — also known as “Pat Fraud” — […]
New York, Oct. 29 — Hundreds of people jammed a union meeting hall tonight at the AFSCME District 37 headquarters in lower Manhattan to demand a halt to evictions. The People’s Tribunal on Evictions heard […]
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 7 By 1970, people of color were already close to half of Chicago’s population. The Daley machine — which still had white ward bosses on the […]
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 6 By 1960, Chicago’s Black community reached 813,000 people, nearly a quarter of the city’s total population. The Great Migration of African Americans continued until the […]
Mayor Richard Daley stands at the microphone during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 5 In the spring of 1937 the Congress of Industrial Organizations—the […]
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