By Ricardo Vaz on July 28, 2025 from Caracas
The Great Patriotic Pole will govern 23 of 24 state capitals, but the opposition swept all municipalities in Cojedes state. (Alba Ciudad)
The Socialist Party-led Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) emerged with a sweeping majority of municipal offices following the July 27 elections in Venezuela.
The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) presented a first-results bulletin on Sunday night, reporting that the GPP had secured 280 mayors out of 304 races, with irreversible leads. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on July 28, 2025
A plane of deported Venezuelans arrives back in their homeland to open arms.
By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on July 27, 2025
foto: AFP
In the last fifty years, after the Cold War, the United States led the international coalition known as the Gulf War between 1991 and 1992. It then led the invasion of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021 and, almost simultaneously, the military occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2011. In its two and a half centuries of history—since its founding as a country in 1776—it has been at war for 228 years. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 26, 2025 from Havana
July 26, photo: Bill Hackwell
The importance of July 26 for the new generation of Cubans extends far beyond a historical date; it represents a living challenge to the present and a commitment to the nation’s future. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on July 25, 2025, from Havana
Moncada Barracks; now a school. photos: Bill Hackwell
Seventy-two years ago, in Santiago de Cuba, a group of young people decided they could wait no longer, and on the morning of Saint Anne’s Day, they took a step forward. Assaulting a military barracks was not madness, but an urgent necessity. They knew that people are not born free, but become free. (more…)
July 23, 2025
Bagnolet on July 22, 2025
When governments normalize genocide and institutions retreat behind silence, it is the duty of peoples’ movements to act.
As famine ravages Gaza under a suffocating siege and global inaction deepens, La Via Campesina, the international movement of over 200 million peasants, landless workers, and food producers, has launched a new phase of direct solidarity by joining the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s Handala ship. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and John Perry on July 23, 2025
With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now with the neocon capture of the Democrats, there are no guardrails from the so-called opposition party. (more…)
By Francisco Arias Fernandez on July 21, 2025
image: Jorge
From panic and pain caused by being forcibly separated from their families and homes, thousands of migrants find themselves completely helpless in unfamiliar countries, without relatives or the slightest idea of where to go. (more…)