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WeAreDefenders

Manifest The referendum for self-determination in Catalonia, scheduled for October 1st and requested by a majority of Catalan citizens, seeks to determine the relationship between Catalonia and the Spanish state. The referendum is a mechanism to make the existing political conflict visible and (...)
A People’s Forum on OBOR and BRICS meets in Hong Kong

6 September 2017 - by Robin Lee

Over the weekend (2nd-3rd September) more than 100 participants met in Hong Kong for a People’s Forum on One Belt, One Road (OBOR) and BRICS. As BRICS leaders begin to meet for their 9th BRICS summit in Xiamen this week and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council prepares to host its second Belt (...)
Debtors can exercise power when they join together

22 August 2017 - by Ann Larson, Laura Hanna, Patrick Saurin

Interview of Ann Larson and Laura Hanna (Debt Collective), by Patrick Saurin (CADTM) The Debt Collective, Strike Debt, and the Rolling Jubilee: How were these movements born and how are they related? The Debt Collective is a culmination of organizing and activist work that grew out of Occupy (...)
African peasants highlight their struggles at Via Campesina global conference

4 August 2017 - by Boaventura Monjane

Peasants across Africa are intensifying their struggles against land grabs and other harmful policies that promote industrial agriculture. At a recent international conference organized by the world’s largest peasants movement, Via Campesina, African peasants had opportunities to share their (...)
Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems

10 July 2017 - by Focus on the Global South

Pablo Solón, the Director of Fundación Solón, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is being targeted by the Bolivian government for his vocal criticism of the government and the construction of two hydro-electric (...)
Solidarity Statement

We demand the release of all Egyptian detainees, arrested for resisting the handover of “Tiran and Sanafir” islands to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

22 June 2017 - by Collective

The Egyptian authorities have recently started a wide campaign of arrests of activists who actively oppose and resist a new agreement that will allow the handover of the Egyptian islands “Tiran and Sanafir” to Saudi Arabia. Among the arrested people were members of the newly-founded party “Bread (...)
From Terrassa to Barcelona: cities and citizens reclaim public water and other essential services

31 May 2017 - by Lavinia Steinfort, Satoko Kishimoto

Barcelona, March 22, World Water Day – Confronted with the failings of water privatisation, cities and citizens of Terrassa and Barcelona, in Catalonia, have moved to return water services to public and democratic control, improving their quality and accessibility. In Terrassa, a Catalan city of (...)
Jemna in Tunisia: An inspiring land struggle in North Africa

25 April 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Jemna is a beacon of hope for a Tunisia where its people have sovereignty over their land and resources. Jemna needs to be supported, celebrated and emulated for the sake of its people and for our sake. Over the past several years, the people of Jemna, a region in southern Tunisia famous for (...)
The government actively blocks the unity of the protests

15 April 2017 - by Marko Stričević

Current mass protests throughout the Republic of Serbia are the culmination of years of dissatisfaction of the population with the systematic devastation of the welfare state, privatization of public enterprises and the persistent insistence of political and economic elites on the introduction (...)
For a free and sovereign Haiti

30 March 2017 - by Collective

Hundreds of popular organizations, networks and movements of Latin America and the Caribbean launched a Week of Solidarity with Haiti, March 15-22, with a petition demanding the total withdrawal of the troops that occupy that country and closure of the UN Mission (MINUSTAH). They also want the (...)
How Was the March 8 International Women’s Strike Woven Together?

16 March 2017 - by Ni Una Menos Collective

Last October 19, the call for a women’s strike to protest the femicide of sixteen year old Lucía Pérez, who was stabbed to death, connected male violence with forms of labor, economic, social, and territorial violence and precarization, and denounced them as a new “pedagogy of cruelty” on women’s (...)
Chilean copper miners on indefinite strike against BHP

5 March 2017 - by Franck Gaudichaud

About 2500 workers have been on strike since February 9 at the Escondida mine in Chile’s north. Owned by two Anglo-Australian mining giants, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Escondida is the largest producer of “red gold” in the world. The mine extracts about 900,000 tonnes a year. This represents 20% (...)
International Women’s Strike US Platform

1 March 2017 - by International Women’s Strike USA

The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in over 30 different countries. In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have been (...)
18^th February Sahrawi Women’s Day

16 February 2017 - by World March of Women

A tireless struggle for freedom From the World March of Women we want to send to our Sahrawi sisters all of our solidarity for the celebration of their day and express all our recognition and admiration for their strength and constancy with which they lead their fight of decades for their (...)
African labour and social militancy, Marxist framing and revolutionary movement-building

1 February 2017 - by Patrick Bond

It is a great period to be a revolutionary activist in Africa. Yet the sense of stop-start progress and regress in so many sites of struggle reflects in part how poorly the working-class, poor, progressive middle class, social movements and other democrats have made alliances. The African (...)
The struggle for socialism in Mauritius

30 January 2017 - by Rajni Lallah

Mauritius is being, and will continue to be, seriously hit by economic crisis, perhaps more than other countries, because as a nation, Mauritius was invented by an emerging capitalist system that populated it though successive waves of Dutch, French and British colonisation and the slave trade. (...)
Speech at the Women’s March on Washington: History cannot be deleted like web pages

23 January 2017 - by Angela Davis

Civil rights activist Angela Davis spoke at the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands who gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the Trump administration. Davis, who is known for writing such books as Women, Race, and Class, made a passionate (...)
CALL TO ACTION!

18 January 2017 - by Argentina Mejor Sin TLC

Let’s put a stop to the WTO’s agenda and to Free Trade Agreements and investment provisions! Let’s build commercial relations that serve peoples’ interests and protect the environment! In 2017, let’s bring the ‘battle in Seattle’ to Buenos Aires! In recent years, commercial liberalization on a global (...)
We thank all of you – The Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica

17 January 2017 - by Acción Ecológica

Acción Ecológica, an Ecuadorian organisation that the CADTM has been collaborating with for the last 12 years, was under the threat of being banned by the Rafael Correa government. Two weeks ago the CADTM joined the numerous left-wing organisations and personalities demanding that the ban be (...)
For people’s seizure of power: Ten proposals to avoid a repetition of the Greek capitulation

5 January 2017 - by Eric Toussaint

I propose ten measures for the people’s seizure of power, ascertaining that the experience of the Greek capitulation of 2015 is not revisited. The first proposal: a left-wing government must disobey the European Commission (EC) in a very transparent manner with prior announcements. The party, or (...)
Dakota (USA) – Standing Rock: Battle Won, But War Continues

13 December 2016 - by Barry Sheppard

Native Americans and their allies won an important battle in their fight to prevent the Dakota Access Pipeline to go through historic tribal lands of the Sioux, and under part of the Missouri River where the Sanding Rock Sioux reservation gets its drinking water. The battle was joined by the (...)
The New World Struggles to be Born

11 December 2016 - by Gustave Massiah

The situation seems to be desperate. The offensive of the right wing and the far right movements occupies space and minds. It spreads out in the media and claims to express the shift of societies to the right. This is not the case and nothing has been decided yet. Societies resist and (...)
BRICS failed to challenge imperialism: Medha Patkar

5 November 2016 - by Prakash Kamat

She accused that in all these countries, private corporations are increasingly taking control of democratic institutions. Activist Medha Patkar commented that BRICS has failed to challenge the hegemony of imperialist States. She accused that in all these countries, private corporations are (...)
‘Hats Off!’ to the 31^st National Assembly of Women

1 November 2016 - by Maria Elena Saludas

The National Assembly of Women or ‘Encuentro Nacional de Mujere’s (ENM) is an annual event which has taken place in Argentina since 1986. It provides a space for women that is deeply democratic, pluralistic, self-financed, federal and fair. Women from all over Argentina and Latin America come (...)
India on Strike

10 October 2016 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay, Soma Marik

In the midst of a right-wing onslaught, Indian workers carried out one of the largest strikes in world history. On September 2, 180 million Indian workers participated in a massive one-day strike that extended across the country and engaged employees in every economic sector. Likely the largest (...)