Indian power sector workers to hold protest day against privatization
Electricity employees and engineers across India will observe a National Protest Day on June 1, to oppose the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Indian trade unions protest attack on workers’ rights
Ten central trade unions in India issued a nationwide protest call against the changes being made to labour laws.
Under COVID-19 stress, healthcare crumbles in neoliberal Ecuador
In the city of Guayaquil in Guayas, dead bodies, most likely victims of the pandemic, are piling up on streets as funeral services fail to collect them on time, forcing families to abandon them.
Dead bodies on the streets of Ecuador expose failure of the government amid pandemic
Lenín Moreno’s neoliberal policies, with cuts to health and prioritization of foreign debt, have caused a collapse in the healthcare system
The Cost of This Pandemic Must Not Bankrupt the People
Vijay Prashad and Manuel Bertoldi discuss the pressing need for states to take humanitarian measures in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic and crisis
Neoliberalism returns to Uruguay with the new right-wing president
New Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, within 11 days of assuming office, has announced a hike in the rates of basic public services
Chilean left-wing political parties initiate a campaign for new constitution
Members of the political parties will campaign to urge people to vote for a new Constitution and a Constitutional Convention, highlighting the need to end the current constitution drafted during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet
Massive protests at Viña del Mar Festival in Chile
Chilean protesters took over 61st Viña del Mar International Song Festival to protest against the right-wing government and its neoliberal economic policies
Death of football fan and activist in Chile reignites protests
Jorge Mora, a football fan and a social activist, was run over by a national police truck outside a football stadium in Santiago
WEF and the crumbling blocks of capitalism
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) summit is a gathering of the world’s richest and most powerful elites at a Swiss alpine resort, with the aim to further the tentacles of global capital and protect the interests of the rich.
Colombians return to the streets en masse in national strike
Thousands mobilized on Tuesday, January 21 across Colombia to mark a return to the mobilizations against the government of Iván Duque
Socialist Party of Zambia presidential candidate Dr. Fred M’membe calls for a clear and radical socialist program
The presidential candidate held a rally in the Matero neighborhood of Lusaka where he addressed thousands of supporters and members of the Socialist Party of Zambia
- Black Lives Matter, rights groups sue US president for violence against protesters
- Teachers in Greece gear up for another mobilization against controversial bill on education
- Uruguayan workers strike and mobilize against neoliberal legislation
- Turkish parliament expels three opposition MPs convicted for dissident acts
- Israel demolishes dozens of Palestinian homes in occupied West Bank
