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Lula is Free
Lula vowed to fight to establish his innocence and excoriated what he called the “rotten side of the judicial system” for “working to criminalize the left.”…
Mumbai CHWs Win Right to Social Security
“How could they not be considered employees with the amount and extent of work that they are expected…
The International Women’s Strike: German Experience
On March 8, 2019, an international strike of women and people suffering the consequences of patriarchal structures around the world was…
Against the neoliberal education system: Indefinite strike of education workers in Chile
Galia Aguilera, 35, is a history teacher of basic education (4 to 13 years) active in the group of…
Brazil: Temer authorizes armed forces to clear roads
As a nationwide trucker strike enters its fifth day in Brazil, impacting several industries across the country, president Michel Temer announced today (25) on live television that he will use the Army, the Air Forces, the Navy, and the Federal Highway Police…
Brazil awash with corruption
On 24 January 2018 the court of appeal in Brazil confirmed a 10-year sentence handed down to former Brazil president Lula da Silva in July 2017. ‘Lula’, as he is popularly know in Brazil and around the world, is appealing…
Cut-Brazil leads feminist struggles
In 2012, measures were taken to ensure that female trade unionists would achieve parity in the biggest trade union in Brazil and Latin America, the CUT (Central Única de Trabajadores), in a country where…
Standing Rock resists big oil
Early yesterday [10 February 2017], work restarted on the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This happened less than a day after the Trump administration granted a final easement to allow the project to go ahead over the disputed land…
Cape Town in solidarity with US women
Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered at the South African Museum in Cape Town on 21 January 2017. They marched through the Company’s Garden to the front entrance to Parliament holding…
