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All occupying foreign forces out of Syria! Defend Syria’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity

October 15, 2019 U.S. Peace Council
U.S. Peace Council statement on Turkish incursion into Syria The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the illegal incursion of the Turkish forces into Syria with the approval of the Trump Administration and in direct violation […]
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Success and joy as IMF agreement in Ecuador is revoked after days of resistance

October 14, 2019 Marco Teruggi
October 14 — Sunday night all of Ecuador turned into a celebration when authorities announced that Decree 883 that eliminated public oil subsidies would be revoked after eleven days of popular unrest. The information was […]
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Ecuador is a Time Bomb: How long will the crisis last?

October 14, 2019 Marco Teruggi
October 11 — The Lenin Moreno Administration informed they would not retract its economic adjustment measures. The indigenous movement said they will continue mobilizing. What will be the ending of this arm wrestle? In Quito, Sputnik […]
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Moreno declares curfew and militarization of Quito, Ecuador

October 13, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Repression against protesters continues and will likely intensify with the decree of the curfew and militarization in Quito On October 12 at 2:20pm, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declared that a curfew and complete militarization of […]
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Haiti gripped by protests

October 12, 2019 John Parker
  After 15 years of a military occupation of Haiti, the United Nations “peacekeeping” force will close operations on Oct.15.  Growing protests now gripping Haiti began last year in reaction to the announcement by President […]
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Defying repression, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in national strike

October 11, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
On October 9, the people of Ecuador took part in a massive national strike called by a number of organizations against the neoliberal reforms of President Lenin Moreno. Tens of thousands of workers, students, Indigenous people, […]
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Communist Party of Turkey: ‘Hands off Syria!’

October 10, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
Statement issued by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). HANDS OFF SYRIA! [Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party] AKP is committing a great crime for the last eight years. AKP disregards the sovereignty of another […]
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Ecuadorians mobilize against the ‘big package’ of Moreno and the IMF

October 9, 2019 Eduardo Tamayo G. and Helga Serrano Narváez
Those who believe that class struggle is a matter of the past are wrong.  The economic elites of Ecuador, through the government of Lenín Moreno, have declared economic war on the Ecuadorian people, with the […]
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Los crímenes de Biden — y de Trump — en Ucrania

October 9, 2019 Greg Butterfield
Mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump pronunciaba un belicoso discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas el 24 de septiembre atacando a Irán, Venezuela, China y a los trabajadores y oprimidos […]
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Washington protest says: Don’t support Colombia repression with tourism

October 3, 2019 Lev Koufax
On Sept. 27, activists demonstrated outside the Colombian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The picket line denounced the violent regime of President Iván Duque, supported by the U.S., and decades of reactionary policies by previous Colombian […]