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Indigenous Bolivian women are organising against the right
Despite splits in the MAS-IPSP movement and attacks on its famous former leader Evo Morales, MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE reports that the strong ‘Bartolinas’ element remains resolute and dedicated ahead of its national congress
Protesters march to the Education Ministry in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, March 20, 2023
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
ON my recent visit to Bolivia, I had the great pleasure of talking with Flora Aguilar, top executive of the National Confederation of Native Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia — Bartolina Sisa.
She is a woman of firm conviction who represents the people well and, most importantly, she knows how to communicate.
The CNMCIOB-BS or “Bartolinas” was founded in January 1980. It bears the name of our Aymara heroine Bartolina Sisa, who fought alongside our hero Tupak Katari against the Spanish invaders centuries ago and was viciously tortured and murdered.
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