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On this International Womens Day, we would like to share this message from the women form CODEP-APPO, Oaxaca Mexico. ¡Viva la lucha de las mujeres!
In the struggles that have transformed our communities and that have been vital for the development and the improvement of humanity, the participation and leading role of women has been of [...]

On the night of October 11, six thousand soldiers and militarized police took over the offices of Luz y Fuerza del Centro, the State owned corporation that provides power to Mexico City and some states in Central Mexico; the entity was liquidated by an executive order issued by Mexico′s president Felipe Calderón. Since then, the [...]

Calderon Uses 6,000 Federal Agents to Fire Over 44,000 Luz y Fuerza Workers
From NarcoNews

FMexican Electrical Workers Union members protest the summary firing of 44,000 members. Photo: La Jornada
In the middle of the night last Saturday, President Felipe Calderon sent six thousand soldiers and militarized Federal Police to take over state power company Luz y [...]

Report from Honduras: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya Returns to Honduras in Defiance of Coup Government
We go live to the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where Manuel Zelaya has sought refuge. After Zelayas dramatic return, the coup government ordered a curfew, but thousands of Zelaya supporters defied the ban and rallied outside the [...]

By James Petras
The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an [...]

On the 20th of April, 10 years ago, black and red flags placed by students covered the doors of the most prestigious University in the Hispanic world and the biggest in Latin America, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM by its Spanish acronym). In Mexico the black and red flag is a symbol of strike action. Students from high school and university formed a movement and occupied the university for nearly a year to defend free education against the neoliberal strategies the government (and the authorities of the University) tried to implement, as part of the agenda of the IMF and its plan of privatisations.

On January 1, Cuba’s working people celebrated 50 years of freedom from imperialist rule. The Cuban Revolution, a socialist revolution that has made big advances in achieving environmental sustainability, has also been largely untouched by the economic crisis sweeping the capitalist world owing to its planned, nationalised economy and its strong ties to its new [...]

Talk by Jo Williams who led the Education exchange tour to Venezuela in February 2009. It was presented to the Feb 21, 2009 Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Forum in Melbourne.

Written by Michael Fox
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
In the dying days of Brazil’s military dictatorship, in late January 1984, a group of nearly a hundred “landless” farmers from across Brazil met in Cascavel, Paran· to debate the founding of a movement for agrarian reform which would unite landless campesinos and farm workers from around the country. [...]