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1.2 million workers, students reject new labor law in France

“Work more, earn less!” Give your boss more flexibility so you can be “laid off more easily!” were some of…

April 5, 2016

Cuba, Puerto Rico and Zika

The Caribbean countries of Puerto Rico and Cuba, both located near the Zika hot zone, have similar peoples and climates…

April 3, 2016

Yemeni protest targets Saudi Arabia, U.S.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, on March 26 to protest the U.S.-armed Saudi…

April 3, 2016

Five years into Libyan disaster, sham ‘unity’ regime creates further divisions

Five years after the U.S.-led destabilization and bombing of Libya began, imperialist attempts to establish a stable neocolonial-dominated regime have…

March 31, 2016

Dangers of NATO’s intervention in refugee crisis

The intensity and dangers of the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa have caused hundreds of thousands of…

March 30, 2016

What does the Brazilian crisis teach us?

The author is a Panamanian sociologist and political activist.   A huge political crisis is looming over the giant Brazil.…

March 29, 2016

Latin America Briefs

Colombia Thousands of people took to the streets in Bogota and in more than 100 other municipalities around Colombia on…

March 29, 2016

¿Qué nos enseña la crisis brasileña?

Olmedo Beluche es un sociólogo panameño. Una crisis política enorme se cierne sobre ese gigante que es Brasil. Una investigación…

March 29, 2016

In Honduras, ‘Berta did not die, she multiplied’

March 24 -- It has been three weeks since the assassination of beloved Indigenous leader and environmentalist activist Berta Cáceres…

March 25, 2016

Zika spreads north as new evidence links virus to neurological disorders

As the Zika-carrying mosquito, Aedes aegypti, hits Puerto Rico, new evidence reinforces the disease’s link to two neural disorders, microcephaly…

March 25, 2016