Peoples’ Movements

The Nobodies Take Office in Colombia: An In-Depth Analysis

August 24, 2022 UNAC Editor Colombia, New Pink Tide, Peoples' Movements, Political Analysis

by Alina Duarte, published by The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, August 11, 2022 This article is pretty long, but will reward your attention. The situation in Colombia is not settled but it appears to be a remarkable breakthrough for the people.[jb] Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and the nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good[…]

Inside Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: 43 Years Resisting Imperialism

July 31, 2022 UNAC Editor New Pink Tide, Nicaragua, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Revolution

by Benjamin Norton, published on Multipolarista, July 22, 2022 Benjamin Norton reports from inside Nicaragua on the 43rd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This mini-documentary explores the FSLN’s emphasis on social programs, popular participation, anti-imperialism, and internationalism. Transcript LYRICS: This is the war that can’t be held back, the ongoing war against the oppressor. What is the symbol? The people[…]

Nicaragua Celebrates 43 Years of Revolution:A Clash Between Reality and Media Misrepresentation

July 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Nicaragua, Peoples' Movements, Propaganda, Public Health, Socialism

by John Perry, published on Council on Hemospheric Affairs Website, July 19, 2022 July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. We’ll hear again about[…]

Interview With Evo Morales; UK Role in Coup That Ousted Him;

July 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Bolivia, Interview, New Pink Tide, Peoples' Movements

by Matt Kennard, published on DeclassifiedUK, July 14, 2022 Matt Kennard interviews the former president of Bolivia about a range of subjects — including the British-backed coup of 2019, Julian Assange, NATO and transnational corporations — at Morales’ house deep in the Amazon rainforest. THE COUP: ‘The UK participated in it – all for lithium’ THE BRITISH: ‘Superiority is so important to them,[…]

Summit of the Americas Flops While Workers Summit Exposes Cracks in the Imperial Façade

July 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Organizing, Peoples' Movements, US Foreign Policy

by Roger Harris, published on Popular Resistance, June 16, 2022 Valentín, the man next to us in line as we made our way across the international border, asked what we had been doing in Tijuana. We had been at the Workers Summit of the Americas, organized as an alternative to Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Our summit was[…]

Why ‘Bolivia Is the Center of the World’ for People’s Movements

May 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Visions of a Future

by Rogelio Mayta, produced by Globetrotter, May 14, 2022 Humanity finds itself at a crucial moment. It’s not only war and climate change that threaten life on our planet. Ideologies and some people do too. We know that money and the production of wealth and well-being have created an ever greater and more profound gap between people, neighborhoods, cities and[…]

Clyde Bellecourt: the Thunder Before the Storm

January 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

by Stephanie Tromblay, published on Workers World, January 18, 2021 Hundreds gathered to honor the life of Clyde Bellecourt, White Earth Ojibwe, in Minneapolis, Jan. 13. Bellecourt, 85, was the last living founding member of the American Indian Movement and a lifelong civil-rights activist known worldwide. (Star Tribune, Jan. 13) Bellecourt, whose Ojibwe name is Neegawnwaywidung, (the Thunder Before the[…]

Decree 575, A Coup D’état In Colombia

June 5, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Austerity, Civil Resistance, Columbia, Labor Struggles, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements

by Joaquin Romero, from Labor Today, June 1, 2021 Labor Today would like to thank Joaquin Romero, Member of the WFTU Presidents Council and President of Funtramiexico for this excellent report and manifesto of the workers of Colombia who continue their courageous general strike and their opposition to the fascist government of President Iván Duque Márquez. Please send messages of[…]

‘1619 Project’: Progressive educators oppose reactionary legislation

May 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Education, Peoples' Movements

by Andy Terhune, published on Workers World, May 27, 2021 Right-wing lawmakers in 15 states are passing legislation that will require public school teachers to teach a nationalist narrative of history, which ignores the genocidal, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant and oppressive history of the United States. Specific legislation differs among the 15 states, but they all include a shared goal of[…]

Indian Farmers’ Rise Against Modi Regime

February 21, 2021 UNAC Editor India, Organizing, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

by Umar Shahid, published on Socialist Action, February 20,2021 The article below by Umar Shahid is an update on the historic January 26 mobilizations in India against the neoliberal policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The previous strike/protest of November 26, 2020, the “Bharat Bandh” meaning the 24-hour closure of, included a monumental 250 million participants! [Socialist Action Editor] I have repeatedly[…]