This interview with Ana Cristina González Vélez, one of Colombia’s leading campaigners for abortion rights, describes how the movement in Colombia advanced the struggle to win decriminalization of abortion in February.
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Faced with popular hostility Macron imposed his re-election
Not only was Macron badly elected, but half of his votes in the second round were in no way in support of record or his programme. They come from a vote of refusal, to prevent the election of Marine Le Pen, which the polls on the evening of the first round had presented as a serious possibility.
Abortion rights on the chopping block in the U.S.
The consequences, as always, will be most brutal for those who are young and poor or working class—which includes a disproportionate number of Black and Brown women—who do not have the financial means or the ability to take the time off work to travel far away to a state that still allows abortions.
The Imran Khan’s ouster: From ‘New Pakistan’ to the old one!
It is no exaggeration to say that the almost four years of PTI’s stint in power was one of the darkest periods of this country, which only drove society backwards—and in the absence of a mass revolutionary upsurge, its reactionary political, social, and cultural ramifications will continue to haunt Pakistan.
Who Is working-class, and why it matters
We are not living through a Second Gilded Age, but a Second Redemption—what white supremacists proudly called their crushing of Reconstruction.
The liberals’ war
The sort of anti-authoritarian politics that mainstream liberals embrace is long on bellicosity and short on policies or activism to address the erosion of working-class living standards and democratic rights.
A message from President Chris Smalls
The founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) wants workers to know his long history of dedication to Amazon and the workers, and what has brought him to be leading this campaign to build the first Amazon labor union in the country on behalf of all Amazon workers.
The right book at the right time
Joe is a well-respected labor activist and writer who has previously written the excellent books Strike Back and Reviving the Strike. His latest book will certainly provoke much discussion.
Revisiting US war crimes III: Systematic torture as policy
Revelations of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay persisted as the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continued, while the U.S. sent “suspects” to secret prisons in foreign countries to be tortured, a procedure it sanitized with the label “rendition”.
The rise and fall of Imran Khan
By constantly repeating the claim of an alleged American conspiracy to oust him, Khan has successfully retained his base to some extent. It is possible that the no confidence motion was not orchestrated by the Americans, but it served their interests.
Israeli Forces accused of ‘barbaric premeditated attack’ on Palestinian worshipers
More than 150 Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
“When he was up there, we was signing people up”
The expectation of a strike wave in October, dubbed “Striketober”, was greatly exaggerated by both the mainstream and left press. Amazon, however, is the real thing. The sheer numbers involved show this is a real victory.
The war on inflation
Inflation globally will not subside until a new slump emerges, signalling that the central bank war on inflation has been lost.
France: Building a fighting left in the face of Macron’s second five-year term
The result of the failure of social democracy is that social emergencies do not find answers if we do not bring into play the balance of power of social mobilization, if we do not attack to the capitalist system.
A memorandum on the radical anti-imperialist position regarding the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the second defining moment of the New Cold War in which the world has been plunged since the turn of the century as a result of the US decision to expand NATO.
