Translated into Spanish below / traducido al español a continuación On March 27, 2020, Victoria Esperanza Salazar, a Salvadoran cleaning worker, mother, and refugee, was murdered by Mexican authorities after a police officer put their foot on her neck for several minutes. President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador of Mexico denounced the killing, specifically citing the…
Translated into Spanish below / traducido al español a continuación Last November Peru was rocked by massive protests against a parliamentary “coup” and, more broadly, against the corrupt, neoliberal political class that has ruled the country for decades. The initial detonator of the protests was the impeachment of President Martin Vizcarra on spurious grounds by…
Democratic Socialists of America International Committee (DSA IC, or IC) stands in solidarity with anti-war activist and whistleblower Daniel Hale, who, in addition to speaking out against U.S. drone policy, gave information to an investigative journalist about the U.S.’s global assassination program. As a result of this heroic act, the U.S. government charged Hale with…
On March 17, 2021, the far-right Turkish government, led by Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), began maneuvering to dissolve the left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and exorcise its leaders from political life. First, it stripped MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu of his parliamentary immunity, dragged him out of parliament, and took him into custody, all…
အောက်တွင်ဗမာဘာသာသို့ပြန်ဆိုထားပါသည် / Translated in Burmese below. On February 1, 2021, the commanding military officers of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma with some groups still using that name), also known as the Tatmadaw, violently overthrew civilian rule by carrying out raids and arrests of political opponents and elected officials throughout the country. Since instituting a state…
Rather than being the “great equalizer” that many predicted, the Covid crisis has served only to widen the gulf between Global North and Global South. Much of the South—having been forced for decades to slash health budgets in deference to the North’s neoliberal agenda—now faces combined economic and public health crises that threaten the lives…
Translation in Portuguese below. Tradução em portugues abaixo. On March 8, 2021, Supreme Court justice Luiz Edson Fachin annulled the criminal convictions against Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores or PT) leader and former President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva on procedural grounds arguing that the corruption cases against Lula should have been tried in the…
The Modi government is attempting to deregulate the agricultural sector, which makes up 60% of India’s workforce. Flouting democratic procedures, the BJP rammed three bills through parliament without open debate in September 2020. These measures, if implemented, would dismantle the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMC)— “the mandi system”—which is used by farmers across the country…
Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee (DSA IC) condemns in strongest terms the Sinophobia and the push for a Cold War with the People’s Republic of China that have been encouraged by United States political elites. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, former President Donald Trump blamed China for the spread of the virus and encouraged discrimination…
On March 2, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaidó and, illegitimately and against the wishes of the Venezuelan people, recognized him as interim president of Venezuela. This act by the Biden administration is just the latest in a long history of feckless and illegal U.S. interventions in…
