Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, told the Hague Group conference that it “has the potential to signal not just a coalition, but a new moral centre in world politics”, reports Ben Radford.
Latin America & the Caribbean
United States President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods, in protest against what he described as a “Witch Hunt” against former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, reports Federico Fuentes.
In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Ben Radford sits down with Panamanian union leader José Cambra to talk about the mass opposition to the recent agreement signed between the Panamanian and United States governments to re-establish US military bases and personnel along the Panama Canal.
Green Left’s Ben Radford sat down with José Cambra, an executive committee member of the Panama Teachers’ Association, about the country-wide strike and the government’s heavy-handed response.
Two years after Peruvian revolutionary and ecosocialist Hugo Blanco’s death at 88, his daughter, María Blanco — an activist and organiser with grassroots feminist collective Género Rebelde — sat down with Ben Radford to talk about her father’s life and legacy.
Community members and tourists in Pisac, a small town in Peru’s southern region of Cusco, gathered in the main square to show solidarity with Palestinians, as Gaza’s death toll mounts, reports Ben Radford.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is under increasing pressure from trade unions and civil society to break ties with Israel, reports Federico Fuentes.
Workers across Colombia went on strike to defend President Gustavo Petro’s proposed labour reforms against right-wing opposition obstruction in Congress, reports Ben Radford.
Jim McIlroy pays tribute to José (Pepe) Mujica, the leftist guerrilla fighter and later president of Uruguay, who died of cancer at the age of 89.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents new books on the German peasants’ war, air, Amazonian struggles, climate history, class rule and Karl Marx’s later views on oppression and revolution.
In the context of the global growth of far-right and fascist groups, grassroots activists in Brazil are organising the 1st International Antifascist Conference in March next year, in Porto Alegre, reports Ben Radford.
Workers in Panama remain on strike, protesting the government’s recently passed pension reforms, submission to United States imperialism and plans to reactivate a destructive mining project in the country, reports Ben Radford.
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