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British troops are dug in along Russia’s border in Estonia. A new German armored brigade has opened in Lithuania, next to Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. French warplanes are set to rehearse nuclear strikes alongside Poland’s. Britain, […]

“The strength of the working class is organization. Without the organization of the masses, the proletariat is nothing. Organized, it is everything.” — Vladimir Lenin  The Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) in Brazil was enacted […]

Christian Velasco Rojas, a leader of La Resistencia Bolivia and a prominent voice in the country’s anti-imperialist left, on May 31 denounced U.S. interference in Bolivia’s internal affairs and rejected the policy of surrendering Bolivia’s […]

Bolivia’s Congress has cleared the road for martial law. On May 24, the Senate voted to remove legal limits on emergency rule. The Chamber of Deputies followed two days later. President Rodrigo Paz signed the […]

On May 28, former Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma declared that the protests shaking Bolivia for the past month represent a popular rebellion against neoliberalism and a government that subordinates itself to the United States. […]

Shops looted, police stations ransacked, roads barricaded, buses damaged, lorries burnt. The artisanal miners of Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces — the cobalt and copper heartland of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) — are […]

China and Russia deepen cooperation, issue joint statement on multipolarity The May 20 meeting in Beijing between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin came only days after Donald Trump’s trip to China with a planeload of […]