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Official figures so far report nearly six hundred deaths and nearly three thousand injured (589 dead and 2,980 injured), although it is estimated that the total number of victims—including the dead, injured, missing, and those affected—could exceed ten thousand. The large number of collapsed structures (buildings and homes), including residential, lodging, and commercial properties, and obviously the fact that a large number of people are trapped under the rubble, suggest that the number of victims will unfortunately approach or exceed the estimated figure.

With a narrow margin of 250,830 votes (barely 0.96%), the Registrar’s Office’s preliminary count has declared far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella the winner over Iván Cepeda in the runoff election. The thousands of challenges, stemming from allegations of irregularities and fraud, call into question the legitimacy of any eventual confirmation of De La Espriella […]

After 49 days of one of the largest mobilizations in recent years, the Bolivian Workers’ Confederation (COB) leadership participated in a roundtable discussion with Rodrigo Paz’s government on June 18. They abandoned the demand for Paz’s resignation, which had been approved at previous national plenary sessions. The COB presented itself as the representative of all […]

Long before this latest World Cup, FIFA has been practically synonymous with corruption and a craven, capitalist drive for profit at all costs. Still, while the reality of international sports under capitalism is marked by exploitation, injustice and imperialism, there is nevertheless a kernel of internationalist sentiment in organizing a global sporting event that invites the participation of teams from all over the world, even as the tournament becomes a flashpoint for worker and social movement organizing

The national battle over “AI” is sparking a discussion on public ownership, a discussion that reveals the weakness of Democratic reformers and Republican leaders alike regarding the real needs of U.S. working people in the fight against the tech oiligarchs. On June 3, an hour-long meeting was held between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss the “idea” of transferring a portion of the company to public ownership. The only solution to society’s problems is 100% public ownership under the democratic control of working people. The capitalist class has no interest in “sharing” power with the people whom they intend to exploit or over the destiny of a planet they intend to exploit.

Five years ago, millions of Colombians took to the streets to protest against Duque’s tax reform, against poverty, youth unemployment, police repression, and systematic violence. The front lines of defense were organized, along with community kitchens, popular assemblies, and indigenous, peasant, and Afro-Colombian resistance. Although the movement was harshly repressed, it left a clear lesson: the streets are the true path to winning rights. The memory and experience of the strike did not fade; it was contained because it was channeled toward the ballot box in 2022, it has resurfaced in the protests of recent days, and now it must be strengthened. Let us not allow the memory of the social uprising to become merely a memory. Let us transform it into a permanent organization, independent of the government or the candidates.

The passage of the new Law on the Regulation of States of Emergency by Rodrigo Paz's administration marks an escalation of repression by the State amongst the political and social crisis that is taking place in Bolivia. Although the executive branch has not yet formally ordered the State of Emergency, the approval of a regulation that expands the authority of the Government and the repressive forces is happening amidst a scenario of increasing mass mobilizations, blockades, and protests. The law constitutes a warning/ regarding the direction the government intends to take towards the growing popular discontent. While the legal framework is being prepared for a potential harsher intervention of security forces, union, peasant, and Indigenous leaders are already facing severe persecution and arrests.

This aggression is part of an effort to force regime change in Cuba or to coerce the regime into accepting U.S. hegemony. The U.S. seeks to recolonize Latin America to curb the growth of Chinese imperialism, which continues its economic and diplomatic intervention across the continent. This effort comes because other imperialist powers—primarily Russian and Chinese—have emerged, challenging U.S. hegemony in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, and Latin America, a new global reality that is forcing the U.S. to refocus on its historic “backyard.” Trump is following the same pattern used in preparation for the fall of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Legal charges, economic pressure, and military threats were used to isolate the regime and arrest Maduro with a special forces raid. With the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the subjugation of the Venezuelan state under Delcy Rodríguez, Trump sent a message to all of Latin America—that the yanks had arrived to put things in order.

FIFA, the body that governs soccer worldwide, is about to kick off its latest event, one which, without a doubt, is a cause for great excitement among large segments of the working class and the masses—particularly in the Americas and Europe. While for most people, soccer means passion, emotion, or a sense of belonging, to […]

In April the Democratic Republic of Congo began receiving third-country nationals deported from the United States. It is one of many African countries receiving these deportees. The Trump administration has forcibly removed migrants and asylum seekers without informing them of their destination. Mass deportation is attempted through repatriation, and when this is not an option because detainees refuse to be repatriated or their country of origin refuse to receive them, “Asylum Cooperative Agreements” or “third-country” agreements have become the administration’s welcome alternative. For Trump and his band of bigots, no effort can be spared in their accomplishing mass deportation.

On May 22, about 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall jail in Newark, N.J., began a labor and hunger strike. The bold action was organized to call attention to the inhumane conditions they are facing at the facility and to protest the lack of due process that led to their incarceration by ICE. They charge that immigration judges are ignoring their cases and that their bonds have been denied—tactics, they say, that are employed in order to force the migrants to self-deport.

The month-long general strike in Bolivia follows decades of both mass-resistance against neoliberal economic programs, as well as the failure of the reformist politics led by former presidents Morales and Arce. Understanding the dynamics behind the 2003 and 2005 uprisings, as well as the response to the 2019 coup and the MAS's fall from grace, is key to Bolivia's future

On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court “kicked the can down the road” on medical abortion, saving some votes for Trump cronies in the mid-term elections but signaling to the rest of us that tele-health prescribing of mifepristone remains in danger. The Court decided that a lower-court decision from Louisiana that required patients, including those living in states with complete abortion bans, to visit a doctor’s office to get a mifepristone prescription would remain “paused.”  In the meantime, the issue would continue to be litigated in the lower courts and the part of the Republican base that remains pro-abortion would not be stirred up before voting. This maneuver has allowed the high court to expediently delay, but be ready use its powers to further erode the availability of reproductive health care when it is more politically convenient.

On May 18, 2026, crowds mobilized by the Bolivian Workers’ Confederation, the Tupak Katari Peasants’ Union Federation of La Paz, the Urban and Rural Teachers’ Federations of La Paz, the Federation of Factory Workers, and other sectors, as well as the “For Life to Save Bolivia” march organized by Evo Morales’s supporters, converged from the city of El Alto and other areas around Plaza Murillo, the seat of the Bolivian government and Congress, surrounding the plaza for about four hours amid clashes with the police, which brutally repressed the demonstration. The central slogan of the day was “Rodrigo Paz Pereira Must Resign!” 

The meeting underscores what a segment of the global left denies: the Trump-Xi Jinping summit is a meeting between the world’s two leading imperialist powers. And this is far more significant than Trump’s last visit, during his first term.