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Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food shortages in 2020

February 27, 2021 Robin Scher
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries. Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to […]
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Arab states’ massive arms deals tribute to U.S., Western firms: Anti-war activist

February 25, 2021 Bill Dores
Saudi Arabia and its regional allies entered into massive weapons deals with the United States and European countries in order to pay their tribute to American and other Western financial institutions and corporations. In an […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]