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Condemn the U.S.-Duterte regime’s fascist attack in Cebu Bakwit School! Free the detained Lumad students, teachers and elders now!

February 18, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

Revolutionary forces, especially from Lumad and peasant organizations, in Southern Mindanao strongly denounce the brazen and violent assault in the Lumad bakwit school inside the University of San Carlos Talamban campus in Cebu City by […]

Lawfare threatens to derail presidential election In Ecuador

February 17, 2021 William Camacaro and Frederick Mills

On February 7, the progressive presidential candidate for the Union of Hope Alliance (UNES) party, Andrés Arauz, won first place in Ecuador’s presidential election; this is uncontested. Arauz garnered 32.71% of the vote; right-wing former […]

Ecuador: In defense of democracy, we call for electoral vigilance

February 7, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

The Network in Defense of Humanity celebrates the growing electoral strength of progressivism in Ecuador, led by Andrés Arauz and Carlos Rabascall, a force that puts on stage its victory in the contest of February […]

2021 02 01 General strike from Delmas Nazon bridge by Dieu Nalio Chery AP

President vows to cling to power as Haiti is ‘on the verge of explosion’

February 4, 2021 Kim Ives

The usually clogged and bustling streets were empty in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as other cities like Cap Haïtien in the North and Les Cayes in the South, as a general strike called by […]

Ukraine: Workers protest utility price hikes demanded by U.S., IMF

February 3, 2021 Greg Butterfield

On New Year’s Day, the price of electricity, gas and oil for heating, and other utilities doubled for most households in Ukraine. The surprise price-hike was announced by President Vladimir Zelensky’s government under orders of […]

MST letter to the Brazilian people: For urgent changes! In defense of life and hope!

February 2, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha

From the MST web site Anchored by the mistica of rebellion and imbued with peasant culture, the National Coordination of the MST, within the framework of our 37 years, met virtually from January 28 to […]

Open letter from Honduran activist to Biden

January 25, 2021 Lucy Pagoada-Quesada

January 20, 2021 New York To President Joe Biden: You were vice president in 2009, when the government of your party led by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported the military […]

U.S.-Africom out! Justice and reparations for Somalia!

January 21, 2021 Carl Muhammad

Remarks by the Socialist Unity Party at a Jan. 16 protest in San Diego against the ongoing U.S. Africa Command (Africom) military intervention in Somalia. Despite an announced Jan. 15 withdrawal of several hundred U.S. […]

Turkey: Freedom for people’s lawyer Aytaç Ünsal

December 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Struggle-La Lucha is sharing this urgent bulletin on the case of political prisoner Aytaç Ünsal in Turkey, who won his release in September after a 213-day hunger strike. His fellow lawyer, Ebru Timtik, died after […]

Indian workers and farmers unite for historic strike, besiege far-right gov’t

December 2, 2020 Greg Butterfield

Nov. 30 — A political and class struggle of historic proportions is taking place in India, the world’s second most populous country. U.S. corporate media have treated it as invisible. For the second time in […]