Around the world – Page 43 – Struggle

Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

July 31, 2022 Sharon Black

The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim […]

Chile’s lithium provides profit to the billionaires but exhausts the land and the people

July 30, 2022 Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva

The Atacama salt flat in northern Chile, which stretches 1,200 square miles, is the largest source of lithium in the world. We are standing on a bluff, looking over la gran fosa, the great pit that […]

Panama: The structural causes of the social explosion

July 29, 2022 Olmedo Beluche

In the last 20 years, Panama has shown macroeconomic figures that the neoliberals love, in particular a sustained growth of the GDP based on private accumulation as a result of the reversion of the canal […]

Philippines: Never again to martial law!

July 26, 2022 Stephen Millies

New York ― A terrible heat wave didn’t stop a hundred people from demonstrating in front of the Philippines mission to the U.N. on July 24. Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and their supporters were protesting the newly […]

Philippines: Reject the Marcos-Duterte regime!

July 26, 2022 Nina Macapinlac

The July 24 rally in front of the Philippines mission to the U.N. in New York was closed by Nina Macapinlac representing Bayan USA. Following is a full transcript: Warm & militant greetings! My name […]

Panamanian trade unions condemn violent repression of protesters

July 24, 2022 Peoples Dispatch

The struggle continues in Panama as the government of Laurentino Cortizo has resorted to violent repression in an attempt to quell mass protests against his government policies. While the organizations behind the protests have called […]

The assassination of Shinzo Abe and Japan’s military expansion

July 18, 2022 Gary Wilson

The assassination of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, on July 8 maybe stirred some memories of the period of government by assassination in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a […]

Exporting blood and Benjamins: U.S. capitalism is the real Dracula

July 15, 2022 Stephen Millies

Malcolm X declared, “you show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” U.S. capitalists are the biggest bloodsuckers on the planet. In 2017, human blood and plasma were the tenth largest U.S. export items, […]

Ecuador: An agreement reached and a crisis that continues

July 10, 2022 Marco Teruggi

July 7 — On Thursday afternoon the Indigenous uprising in Ecuador ended. The trucks loaded with people began to leave Quito in caravans and under applause to their respective communities. They did it after 18 […]

Solidarity with Ecuador strike in Washington, D.C.

July 1, 2022 Cheryl LaBash

Ecuadorians and supporters demonstrated solidarity with the ongoing national strike at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on June 26. A banner in Spanish read, “No to poverty, unemployment, violence, Lasso” — referring to current […]