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Fanmi Lavalas condemns the PHTK death squad government in Haiti

June 16, 2021 Haiti Action Committee

Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this statement from Fanmi Lavalas, the people’s party in Haiti. The statement was issued as a delegation from the Organization of American States (OAS) descended upon Haiti to […]

Pedro Castillo: The man from Peru made invisible

June 9, 2021 Marco Teruggi

Peru is experiencing a historic moment. Pedro Castillo, a man from the invisible country, rural, poor, with a white hat and a rising leadership, may become the next president. This is indicated by the numbers […]

AFRICOM military’s exercise: The art of creating new pretexts for propagating U.S. interests

June 7, 2021 Pavan Kulkarni

Phoenix Express 2021 (PE21), a 12-day U.S.-Africa Command (AFRICOM)-sponsored military exercise involving 13 states in the Mediterranean Sea, concluded on Friday, May 28. It had kicked off from the naval base in Tunis, Tunisia, on […]

Puerto Rico unions close ranks against LUMA Energy

June 4, 2021 Wilmarilis Sánchez-Romeu and Edwin Ocasio Feliciano

June 1 — Union organizations today warned Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and the Financial Oversight and Management Board that they will paralyze the country if the LUMA Energy contract that increases rates, allows the consortium to […]

Germany must pay reparations to Africa

June 3, 2021 Stephen Millies

May 31 — Members of the December 12th Movement held a news conference today in front of the German mission to the United Nations in New York City to demand reparations for Namibia. “From 1904 […]

‘No limits’: U.S.-Greek military ties threaten region

June 3, 2021 Panagiotis Papadomanolakis

Presentation at online forum “The New U.S. Aggression, Turkish-Greek Relations and the Popular Movement,” hosted by Coordination of Action and Dialogue between Communist Forces on May 9, 2021. This year’s commemoration of the Nazi’s defeat […]

Mali is just the latest: U.S. Africa Command trained troops behind at least seven coups in 13 years

May 29, 2021 Morgan Artyukhina

While the U.S. Army School of the Americas is infamous for training right-wing guerrilla forces across Latin America, less well-known are the Pentagon’s military training programs in Africa, including the Flintlock exercises for the G5 […]

Colombia’s blood on U.S. hands: National strike marches on

May 28, 2021 Greg Butterfield

May 27 — Jhon Erik Larrahondo, 21, of Cali. Alison Meléndez, 17, of Popayán. Camilo Arango, 19, of Tuluá. These are but a few of more than 60 victims confirmed dead of government terrorism against […]

The assassination of Colombian revolutionary Jesús Santrich

May 26, 2021 Greg Butterfield

When a respected revolutionary dies, the impact reverberates around the world. Or, as Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong said, “To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists […]

Belarus detains neo-Nazi, and imperialists howl

May 26, 2021 Greg Butterfield

On May 23, Roman Protasevich was detained by authorities in the eastern European country Belarus after the plane he was riding made an emergency landing in Minsk. Protasevich’s detention set off howls of protest from […]