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Peru – international solidarity urgently needed!
The struggle for democracy in Peru continues, says MATT WILLGRESS of Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America
VOX POPULI: Anti-government protesters with a placard ‘Dina murderer’ at a march against President Dina Boluarte, in Lima last Monday
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
AT THE time of writing, the latest shocking reports from Peru show that over 70 protesters have been killed during the ongoing mass mobilisations for democracy in the country.
Thousands more have been injured, and the protest movements as a whole demonised and criminalised, not only by the coup regime but also by much of the ruling class that supports it, and inevitably their mouthpieces in the corporate media.
Yet the resistance movements continue to mobilise to an inspirational level, as witnessed by recent national strikes calling for the illegitimate President Dina Boluarte to resign, and in shows of inspiring bravery protests continue.
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