July 26: The Legacy that Cuba Transforms and Defends

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…)

Ana by Name, Revolution by Cause

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…)

“Not a Single Ton:” Colombian President Orders Navy to Ban Coal Shipments to Israel

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…)

Peru: Social Organizations Demand the Resignation of Dina Boluarte

July 23, 2025.

Dina Resign!

Workers in Lima announce that marches will continue until the president resigns

For workers, the solution to the crisis is a new constitution through a constituent assembly. (more…)

Holding Those Who Support the Starvation of the Palestinian People Accountable

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…)

La Via Campesina Joins the Handala Mission to Break the Siege on Gaza

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…)

Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South

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…)

The Single Issue on Trump’s Agenda

By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on July 23, 2025

photo: Saul Loeb / AFP

When taken week by week, even day by day, the sequence of events that occur or are publicized under Donald Trump’s administration gives the impression that some events are taking place or are being fictitiously created to obscure previous events or those occurring in parallel. (more…)

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