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By Javier Martínez and Jordi García for Corriente Roja, Spanish State Exactly one week ago today, Maricarmen was evicted. This event sparked one of Spain’s most significant ongoing conflicts: the housing crisis. It was just one of more than 25,000 evictions that take place each year, highlighting the plight of the working class, who are […]

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Puerto Rico is of financial and military importance as a colony to the U.S. imperial core. There is an immensely tight grip around the archipelago because it is an outpost for the Caribbean, giving the U.S. greater ability to pursue its imperialist domination in the rest of Latin America and the globe. Just as reformist policies will do nothing for Boricuas against Esencia, the U.S. will not grant or negotiate the freedom of its subjects unless a counterforce is mobilized to seize what is needed and break Borikén’s colonial chains.

Unlike Flávio Bolsonaro, who seeks to fully subordinate Brazil to Trump’s interests, and unlike Lula—whose vision of sovereignty is limited to selling off Brazil’s natural wealth to the highest bidder (whether to Chinese or U.S. imperialism)—the PSTU advocates for sovereignty rooted in the interests of the working class.

From September 18 to 20, voting for the parliament—known as the State Duma—took place over three days and three nights. There have been no free or democratic elections in the country for several decades. In particular, since Putin came to power, elections have been a mere formality within a regime whose central institution is the FSB—the direct successor to the KGB. The State Duma and the Federation Council serve a purely decorative function, with a handful of parties under the regime’s strict control. But on this occasion, due to the economic, social, demographic, political, and military crisis engulfing the country—a result of its imperialist war in Ukraine becoming bogged down—that regime revealed its enormous fragility. And the “election results” it presented to the world only heightened its embarrassing ridicule.

The search for alternatives has led Saudi Arabia, the most powerful and independent of the Gulf monarchies, to construct an alliance with Pakistan and Turkiye. Today, the pact has been formalized as the Mecca pact, involving three countries. This new defensive military alliance, grants Saudi Arabia security under Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella and the security of Turkish military power. For Turkiye and Pakistan, it provides reach into the wider Arabian Peninsula while for Pakistan, allows it both economic support from the Saudis (in exchange of military security) and potential for economic and diplomatic blackmail against India, as Saudi Arabia remains one of India’s main oil suppliers.

This decision will not silence us or cause the PSTU to back down from its unconditional defense of the Palestinian people’s struggle and freedom of expression

From the 16th to the 18th of September, Iquitos is on strike, demanding a resolution to the gas price crisis, an end to destructive mining, and better internet connectivity.

Like many activists practicing their constitutionally protected rights of free speech and peaceful protest, No ICE is subject to surveillance and harassment by law enforcement.

Over one thousand lives lost, countless villages and towns destroyed. The visuals of a raging torrent of mud soil and stone reducing concrete buildings to rubble will be forever etched into our collective memories. Far from being an abstract concept, this is what global warming looks like.

On the morning of September 13, we woke up to terrible news regarding the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey. Police raids were conducted on the homes of the board of directors and supervisory board members of Kaos GL Association. Numerous executives, including alternate members, were detained, and the association building was searched. News reports indicated that more than 10 LGBTI+ activists were taken into custody. At the center of the investigation are allegations of "obscenity" under Article 226 of the Turkish Penal Code and opposition to the Law on Associations.

Whilst Burnham is a more capable and charismatic politician, despite his rhetorical claims, he is unlikely to reverse Thatcherism’s policies of privatisation and deregulation, and the anti-trade union legislation. Nor will he reverse the brutal immigration controls being introduced, as he voted for the Immigration and Asylum Bill at its second reading in July.

On Sept. 6, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany or AfD) trounced its opponents in the state election in Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) state. For the first time in German postwar history, a party of the far right has won a state election. Everyone here from the far left to the liberal center sees this as one of the darkest moments of German postwar history.

Interview with a CNTE teacher  A writer for Workers’ Voice in the United States interviewed Francisco Bravo, a veteran Mexican teacher and social activist, and a member of the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), a militant teachers’ organization within the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE). 1. What are the historical reasons behind the […]

While armed organizations in the region are losing strength, central states are being strengthened with the financial and diplomatic support of imperialism. This process has reached its current point because Erdoğan has either eliminated all centers of power within the state or made them dependent on himself.

Stunning electoral news has come from a district that has been served by the same Democratic state senator since the early 1990s. An independent socialist candidate is not just in the running for Connecticut’s District 11 seat; they have made the ballot.