The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government on October 22, reports Ben Radford.
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Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that gives a green light to the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources, reports Susan Price.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.
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Bolivia suffered its worst-ever bushfire season last year. Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide, a new short documentary, focuses on the worst-affected Santa Cruz department, the heart of Bolivia’s agro-industrial frontier. Ben Radford reviews the film.
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Ecuadorians are resoundingly resisting the Daniel Noboa government’s neoliberal policies, despite heavy police and military repression, reports Ben Radford.
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A preparatory meeting for the First International Antifascist Conference, which will take place in Brazil next March, was hosted in Porto Alegre, reports Tatiana Py Dutra.
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Deepak Joshi argues that while structural racism must be challenged, migrants have responsibilities too, including to refuse to be vote banks for careerist politicians.
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Australia’s blatantly strings-attached aid to Papua New Guinea aims to further its own security interests, namely access to PNG’s bases and a military ally obliged to side with Australia in any confrontation with China. Allen Jennings reports.
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The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands, once again offered cautious words and postponed action on West Papua, writes Ali Mirin.
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Latin American solidarity activists called a snap protest against the United States military deployment in the Caribbean and demanded federal Labor publicly oppose the threat to Venezuela’s sovereignty. Jim McIlroy reports.