Around the world – Page 30 – Struggle

Maduro’s historic meeting with Lula in Brazil is a step forward for all of Latin America

June 1, 2023 Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell

Yesterday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shook hands again after eight years since they last met. Maduro traveled to Brasilia after almost a decade; the last time was to […]

Approval of U.S. troops to train Peruvian armed forces proves U.S. behind coup

May 28, 2023 Clau O\’Brien Moscoso

U.S. SOUTHCOM is strengthening ties with Peru’s coup government by training that country’s military and police force. National Strike, Day 140 Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the […]

What led to Imran Khan’s arrest and the political crisis in Pakistan?

May 26, 2023 Peoples Dispatch

Taimur Rahman of the Mazdoor Kisan Party explains the current political crisis in Pakistan, where mass protests have broken out following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. He talks about why Imran Khan […]

Nkosi Mandela speaks on apartheid and the Nakba

May 25, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein

Upholding the legacy of Malcolm X and commemorating the Palestinian Nakba, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela — grandson of Nelson Mandela — spoke to a gathering at San Francisco State University on May 19. Mandela was […]

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After years of attacking protesters, Sudan’s army and paramilitary RSF turn on each other

May 6, 2023 Pavan Kulkarni and Prasanth Radhakrishnan

More than 500 people have been killed and 4,000 injured since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15. Groups such as the Sudan […]

Britain’s royal rip-off

May 6, 2023 Michael Roberts

Today in Britain, King Charles III will be crowned in a ‘coronation’. All the other remaining monarchies in Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) don’t bother with a coronation, but the British monarchy has had a […]

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Ben Dupuy, the revolutionary whose vision and organizations radicalized and formed a generation in Haiti

May 6, 2023 Kim Ives

The second of two parts. (Part 1) Haiti’s Sep. 30, 1991 coup d’état was a challenge that tested and strengthened the organizations in Ben Dupuy’s revolutionary network. Ambassador-at-Large Dupuy was returning from an outreach trip […]

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Ben Dupuy, quintessential Haitian revolutionary leader, dead at 91

April 28, 2023 Kim Ives

Benjamin Dupuy, arguably Haiti’s greatest communist leader and ideologue from the 1970s to the 2010s, passed away in a Miami Beach nursing home on Apr. 23 at the age of 91. He had been extremely […]

French workers take to the streets as Macron’s pension reform becomes law

April 17, 2023 Peoples Dispatch

Spontaneous protests broke out in France on April 14, Friday, after the country’s Constitutional Council ratified the increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64, the most controversial aspect of the pension reforms pushed […]

U.S. out of the Philippines!

April 15, 2023 Stephen Millies

New York City’s Times Square was packed on April 10 with a protest against the U.S. military’s latest incursion on Philippine sovereignty. The Pentagon has sent over 12,000 troops to the Philippines for the […]