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Peru in crisis and women in action
Since the ouster of Pedro Castillo, Peru has been engulfed in people’s protest and state violence. MARTA NUNEZ explores the view from the ground for women in a country where years of neoliberalism cast a long shadow
Quechua Indigenous march in San Martin plaza, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, January 28, 2023
A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
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As the far right gains ground, Fire Brigades Union members are organising in workplaces and on the streets to defend public services and workers’ rights, says STEVE WRIGHT
As far-right rhetoric rises and political tensions deepen, an unprecedented alliance of organisations marches to assert that inclusivity, not exclusion, defines the majority, says STEVE GILLAN
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
SINCE December 2022, up to the moment of writing this article, Peru has been going through an explosive political and social crisis. The result so far: 60 people killed and 300 injured.
After the deposition of president Pedro Castillo last December, continuous public demonstrations against the current political state of affairs are supported by a range of grassroots movements, unions, indigenous and peasant people, the poorest and disadvantaged and a wider spectrum of left and far-left social organisations, and women belonging to all those groups are active and present.
What we were seeing in the news, and even more in videos sent by people in situ to Peruvian migrants based abroad, shows a brutal repression organised by the armed forces and the police.
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