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Turkey: Hunger striking lawyers defy Erdoğan’s repression

August 11, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Aug. 10 — The lives of political prisoners and people’s lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal hang in the balance as the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, a member of the U.S.-dominated […]
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U.S. crimes against humanity at home and abroad

August 10, 2020 Alicia Jrapko and Bill Hackwell
This month marks the second year since former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced to the world a campaign promoted by a group of Latin American writers and academics to declare August 9 as International […]
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EE.UU: Crímenes contra la Humanidad en casa y en el extranjero

August 10, 2020 Alicia Jrapko y Bill Hackwell
8 de Agosto, 2020 Desde el año 2017 se lleva a cabo una campaña mundial promovida por un grupo de escritores y académicos latinoamericanos para declarar el 9 de agosto como Día Internacional de los […]
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Beirut explosion: Lebanese Communist Party requests a prompt investigation

August 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
August 5 — A massive explosion rocked Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, on Tuesday, killing dozens of people, injuring thousands and blowing out windows in buildings across the city. According to reports, the was felt in […]
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Bolivia: Roadblocks against the dictatorship setting up around the country

August 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
The indefinite general strike with roadblocks called by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the Unity Pact, which brings together the country’s social movements, is massing on the roads from La Paz to Cochabamba to […]
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‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

July 29, 2020 Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano
What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second US “government stimulus package is not in […]
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Bolivians reject postponement of elections with massive mobilizations

July 29, 2020 Peoples Dispatch
Organizations and trade unions from diverse sectors in Bolivia joined the call to mobilize today, on July 28, against the postponement of the general elections in Bolivia. The call for nationwide mobilizations was given by […]
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Fidel Agcaoili, lifelong fighter for liberation

July 24, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Fidel Agcaoili, chief negotiator of the Peace Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, has passed on in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In a statement emailed to the media, the NDFP announced that he […]
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Philippine communists: Fight against Duterte’s terrorism entails greater sacrifice, courage and wisdom

July 19, 2020 Communist Party of the Philippines
July 18 — Today, the Filipino people enter a new stage of resistance against President Rodrigo Duterte’s tyrannical regime as his draconian terror law goes into effect. As it is set to use the new […]
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Global protests erupt in response to Philippines ‘terror law’

July 18, 2020 Bayani
On July 3, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law what he calls the “Anti-Terrorism Act,” now the Anti-Terrorism Law. Despite international criticism from human-rights watchdogs, legal professionals and grassroots organizations, the Anti-Terrorism Law will […]