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Diana Ruiz sits next to her son at their home in Havana on March 27, 2024. Shortages of food and medications, as well as long blackouts, have affected most of Cuba’s population in recent years.

Cuban leader: ‘Everything for the people and with the people’

Ernesto Limia Díaz draws out the challenges Cuban revolutionaries face today as they try to confront the impact of a severe economic crisis.
Bocas del Toro

Rebellious Panama: Workers and indigenous peoples against neoliberalism

José Cambra denounces the neoliberal dismantling of the country and explains why Panama has become a symbol of popular resistance against austerity policies and authoritarianism.
International Antifascist Conference

Call for 1st International Antifascist Conference

Socialism and Liberty Party, Workers’ Party and Communist Party of Brazil will host a global gathering in Porto Alegre to organize and debate how to build a movement to confront the far-right.
Protest in Panama

Panama’s national strike, state repression and US imperial interests: An interview with union leader José Cambra

José Cambra explains the origins and dynamics of the national strike, the government’s heavy-handed response and the need for solidarity with Panamanian workers. 
PCV Pedro Eusse

False anti-imperialism and the class struggle in Venezuela

Pedro Eusse outlines the Communist Party of Venezuela’s position on the Maduro government and responds to statements made by Steve Ellner about his party.
Venezuela repression

US sanctions have decimated Venezuela, but the left should still oppose Maduro’s brutal authoritarianism

Gabriel Hetland — The immense harm caused by US sanctions should not mean leftists give Maduro's repressive and predatory government a free pass.
Communal council

Revitalizing popular counterpower in Venezuela: Tensions between the PSUV and popular organizations

John Brown & Atenea Jiménez — Under an increasingly authoritarian government, Venezuela’s Chavista project faces stark challenges and dilemmas. 
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Venezuela: Trapped in an authoritarian maze

Yoletty Bracho and Manuel Sutherland discuss Venezuela’s situation almost a year after Maduro’s “re-election”.
Nicolas Maduro Venezuelan flag

Demonising Nicolás Maduro: Fallacies and consequences

Steve Ellner — Failure to contextualise errors and transcend binaries when it comes the Maduro government leads to underestimating the US sanctions and undermines solidarity.
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Closing the extractive frontier: An interview with Colombia’s former Minister of Mines and Energy Andrés Camacho

Andrés Camacho Morales reflects on Colombia’s decarbonization plans, the progress made thus far, and the core obstacles these efforts have faced.
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Panama is the epicentre of the struggle in Latin America

José Cambra & Luís Bonilla-Molina — A small country is showing the world it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the 21st century.
Panama protests

Panama’s mass strike movement confronts Trump’s canal grab

Pedro Fuentes — Panama is the sharpest point of class struggle on the continent and will be crucial for determining the battle between Latin America and Trump’s imperialist policy.

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