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U.S.-NATO hands off Belarus!

August 29, 2020 Greg Butterfield

Six years after the U.S. government helped to engineer a right-wing takeover of Ukraine using mass protests, another former Soviet republic — Belarus — is now in the gunsights of Washington and the European […]

Borotba: Workers should put an end to crisis in Belarus

August 29, 2020 Borotba

Borotba (Struggle), a revolutionary Marxist organization banned by the U.S.-backed government of Ukraine, issued the following statement on Aug. 25. Borotba activists continue their work from exile, in the anti-fascist Donbass republics, and underground in […]

Turkey: People’s attorney Ebru Timtik dies on 238th day of hunger strike

August 28, 2020 Anti-Imperialist Front

Aug. 27 — Today, our comrade, a member of the People’s Law Office, Ebru Timtik, was martyred in the 238th day of a death fast hunger strike. She was assassinated by imperialism and fascism because […]

Bolivia mass mobilizations against U.S.-backed coup continue

August 22, 2020 Julia \”Pachamama\” Fernández

A 12-day national Bolivian blockade led by massive social movements, students, elders, unions and farmworkers ended on Aug. 13. It had paralyzed the entire country, resulting in food/fuel shortages and in the complete instability of […]

After tragic Beirut explosion: Imperialist vultures pounce on Lebanon

August 22, 2020 Greg Butterfield

A powerful explosion ripped through the port of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, on Aug. 4. At least 171 people have died and thousands were injured, including many Syrian and other non-Lebanese workers. Hundreds of thousands were […]

Bolivian movements and trade unions propose to hold elections on October 11

August 13, 2020 Peoples Dispatch

On August 12, Bolivian social movements and trade unions, which have been mobilizing against postponement of general elections for the past ten days, issued an official statement and proposed to hold elections on October 11. […]

Condemn assassination of Philippines peasant leader Randall Echanis

August 13, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

Following is a statement from the Socialist Unity Party: We of the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper in the United States are shocked and appalled by the cruel and cowardly murder of Randall […]

Philippines: Condemn the cold-blooded murder of Randall Echanis by Duterte’s death squads

August 11, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the cold-blooded murder of Randall Echanis, Chairperson of the Anakpawis party-list and peace consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). […]

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 […]

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 […]