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Joint socialist statement on U.S. attacks on boats in Latin America

Joint statement by revolutionary socialist workers from Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States We, revolutionary socialist workers’ organizations from Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States, completely condemn the unjustifiable murders of sailors and fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad by the U.S. Navy. Likewise, we condemn the disgusting, deadly threats and provocations by the Trump […]
Colombia

30 de out de 2025
Colombia: The right goes on the offensive thanks to the government's ambiguity

Colombia: The right goes on the offensive thanks to the government’s ambiguity
—by the Socialist Workers’ Party of Colombia The government and the majority leadership of the trade union movement, represented in the National Unitary Command, are undermining the mobilization by making ambiguous and confusing proposals. This allows the bourgeoisie to take advantage and go on the offensive on the same ground. It seems that the Petro […]
Colombia

01 de jul de 2025

Trump vs Petro: it's time for the anti-imperialist struggle

Trump vs Petro: it’s time for the anti-imperialist struggle
By Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores – Colombia In November, when Trump’s election victory was announced, we said that “the triumph of Donald Trump in the U.S. elections is a manifestation of the lack of a revolutionary alternative for the working class and people of all countries. Faced with this situation, there is a political […]
Colombia

24 de fev de 2025

Colombia: honeymoon over... is the soft coup coming?

Colombia: honeymoon over… is the soft coup coming?
By Rosa C., PST – Colombia The last months have been marked by mobilizations against the Petro government orchestrated by the bourgeois opposition. While countermobilizations in favor of Petro have been called by the union and social leaderships that support him. At the same time there have also been protests in response to some corruption […]
Colombia

01 de ago de 2024

Colombia: Long Live the National Teachers' Strike! Sink the Statutory Bill and Fight for a Real Education

Colombia: Long Live the National Teachers’ Strike! Sink the Statutory Bill and Fight for a Real Education
By Socialist Workers Party – Colombia Surprisingly, while the leadership of the teachers’ union FECODE (Federation of Colombian Education Workers) called on us to defend the government’s reforms, we found that after going through the process in the House of Representatives, a draft of the Statutory Law on Education was approved by an absolute majority […]
Colombia

30 de jun de 2024

Colombia Needs a Constituent Assembly

Colombia Needs a Constituent Assembly
On March 13, the southwestern indigenous mobilization began as a political expression of the centuries-old demands of the indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples that are still unresolved. Their demonstration ended in Cali, in Puerto Resistencia, a symbolic place for the National Strike of 2021, where President Petro received them with an eloquent speech. In his feverish […]
Colombia

06 de abr de 2024

Colombia's Uprising: A Radical Commemoration

Colombia’s Uprising: A Radical Commemoration
We are reprinting the same article that was originally published in Revista Izquierda (#114 – December). Meanwhile, the Socialist Workers Party (PST) is currently analyzing the depth of the changes that have occurred with the national strikes of 2019 and 2021, and the possibility that we are facing a new historical stage is still a […]
Colombia

28 de fev de 2024

<strong>#8M Colombia | The Working-Class Woman Resists</strong>

#8M Colombia | The Working-Class Woman Resists
The situation for women in Colombia is daunting. We often see cases of femicide in the news, and according to the National Institute of Legal Medicine,[1] a woman is killed every eight hours. Even if not all cases are considered femicides, that is, motivated by the fact that the victim is a woman, the majority […]
8M 2023

08 de mar de 2023

Colombia | Gustavo Petro, a Friend to Imperialism

Colombia | Gustavo Petro, a Friend to Imperialism
Despite his apparently anti-imperialist speech at the UN, Petro advances his agenda hand in hand with US imperialism. By: Roberta / PST Colombia His increasingly smooth relationship with Biden – the commander in chief of global imperialism – proves this to be true. Recently, in a new episode of “cooperation,” Petro and Francia Márquez herself […]
Colombia

24 de out de 2022

Will the fall of abortion rights in the United States affect Colombia?

Will the fall of abortion rights in the United States affect Colombia?
Legally the answer is no, but politically yes, it will. Let’s see.  By the Women’s Commission- PST Colombia On February 21, 2022, the Colombian Constitutional Court, through ruling C055 or the “Causa Justa” ruling, eliminated the crime of abortion in Colombia up to 24 weeks of gestation (i.e., it can be performed at the woman’s […]
Colombia

06 de set de 2022

Do we need to develop capitalism?

Do we need to develop capitalism?
The Colombian president-elect Gustavo Petro said, on 19 June, that his government aimed to develop capitalism. Furthermore, he has called for a national agreement to calm down the defeated sectors of the bourgeoisie. By PST – Colombia What is the capitalist system? It is a system based on the exploitation of workers. It is a […]
Colombia

19 de ago de 2022