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For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
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Communist Party unveils ‘Emergency Relief Unity Program’ to confront crisis
March 9, 2021“The pandemic and the crisis…have revealed that the status quo is not sustainable,” the CPUSA says in its new emergency relief unity program.
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Women take the lead in fight to impeach Bolsonaro in Brazil
March 8, 2021SAO PAULO—Today in Brazil, women are facing the advancement of predatory neoliberalism, imperialism, an anti-democratic state, the politics of death, and the extermination of the people, which has been escalating with the coronavirus pandemic. In 2016,...
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Myanmar military coup leaders target trade unions for destruction
March 4, 2021Police have issued arrest warrants for 20 union leaders, the majority from the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar.
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Germany’s Linke (the Left Party) comes out of its convention united
March 4, 2021The party prepares to engage in the national elections this year, hoping to expand on victories it has had in several German states.
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