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…)
By Eman Abusidu on July 26, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, photo: EFE
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has escalated his protest against Israel’s military operations in Gaza by ordering the Navy to intercept and block all coal shipments leaving Colombian ports en route to Israel. This move comes nearly a year after his government issued a formal decree in August 2024 banning coal exports to Israel, a measure intended to express Colombia’s rejection of what Petro has repeatedly called a “genocidal” offensive against the Palestinian population. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on July 22, 2025, in San Francisco
photos: Bill Hackwell
A demonstration called in less than a day brought together hundreds of people who marched from the Ferry Building to the offices of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in San Francisco’s financial district. The BCG, which describes itself as a company that is Helping Unlock the Potential of Those Who Advance the World, designed, helped create, and supported the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” That nice-sounding name does not hide the fact that it was a front for the Zionist army that murdered hundreds of Palestinians who, with nowhere else to turn, went to its supposed food distribution points. The project, in reality, is a model that is designed for the forced transfer of starving Palestinians. (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…)
By Nan McCurdy on July 19, 2025 from Managua
photos: Nan McCurdy
This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were perhaps 5,000 people invited – this year there were about 50,000! It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for years and years with open attendance of hundreds of thousands and little organization. That changed in 2020 with Covid. This time invitations were made and organized by the municipalities all over the country and those invited road in on Chinese buses down to the plaza. You can see from the photo, the organization was phenomenal to accommodate the 50,000. (more…)
By Jose Luis Grandos Ceija on July 20, 2025
Relatives welcome some of the men freed from a high-security jail in El Salvador following negotiations between Caracas and Washington. photo: nawseas
Following a months-long campaign demanding their release, the Venezuelan men have finally arrived in Venezuela.
Mexico City, Mexico, July 18, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Two hundred fifty-two Venezuelan nationals deported by the United States and detained for months in El Salvador’s high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) arrived back in their homeland after a successful negotiation by the Nicolás Maduro government. (more…)