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Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20241 min read
Students, Professors, and Workers Call for Resistance Against Milei’s Attacks on Public Universities
By Global News Service Students, professors, and administrative workers at universities in Argentina are preparing for several weeks of...
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Michael Laxer
May 10, 20243 min read
'Argentina Stopped': Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
"It is a day of resistance and demand," said trade groups that organized the action "in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20241 min read
Milei Celebrates Violent Repression of Thousands Protesting Hunger in Argentina
Image via X By Global News Service On April 10, the Federal Police and the Police of the city of Buenos Aires violently evicted and...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 20241 min read
5th People’s Health Assembly Begins in Mar del Plata
A panel at the assembly -- image via PHA website By Global News Service Over 600 activists from around the world have converged in Mar...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 2, 20241 min read
Argentine Diplomats Expelled From Colombia Following Explosive Comments by Milei
Public Domain Image By Global News Service Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei is under fire from his counterparts in the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 28, 20232 min read
Unions Lead Protests Against Milei's Anti-Worker Decree in Argentina
"The Argentine people chose Milei as president of the nation, not as emperor," asserted one Buenos Aires demonstrator. Thousands rally in...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Argentinians Defy Milei's Crackdown With Mass Protests Against Austerity
"This country's problem is not protests," said one demonstrator. "The country's problem is that Milei took away 50% of our purchasing...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20233 min read
Milei Couples 'Total Crackdown' on Protest With Economic Shocks in Argentina
"Protest is elemental to Argentine social and political life, so it's not difficult to imagine how this ends," said one journalist. By...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Are There Any Paranoids in the Stadium Tonight? Two Nights in Santiago With Roger Waters
Image via Vijay Prashad on X By Vijay Prashad No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 22, 20231 min read
Far-Right Libertarian Javier Milei Is the Next President of Argentina
Javier Milei By Global News Service Javier Milei, the candidate of the Liberty Advances far-right libertarian party, was victorious in...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 1, 20231 min read
Argentina condemns Israeli attack on Jabalia as outrage grows in Latin America
Man holds up Palestinian flag at a Palestinian solidarity rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 19 Argentina's Foreign Ministry has...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 202312 min read
Ceasefire Now! Red Review #117 -- International Left and Labour Report
With reports from Argentina, Canada, the USA, Cyprus, Iceland, Cuba, Kenya and elsewhere and with a very large section of news and...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20234 min read
Elections in Argentina: A Working Class Perspective
Sergio Massa speaks on October 22 By Taroa Zúñiga Silva A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90 percent of the...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Sergio Massa Pulls Ahead in First-Round Presidential Election in Argentina
By Global News Service Argentina will head to runoff presidential elections after the Unión Por la Patria (Union for the Homeland)...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 29, 20233 min read
Latin American Women Take to the Streets on International Safe Abortion Day
One activist in Mexico said the country's green wave movement now had the task of "decriminalizing abortion in the minds of the people."...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 202312 min read
The Perilous Path From Western Domination to De-Dollarization
By Justin Podur Two interesting things happened at the BRICS summit in South Africa in August. Several new members were invited to join...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 25, 20225 min read
Red Review #54 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, Nicaragua, Greece, the USA, Mexico and elsewhere. Evo Morales with Miguel DÃaz-Canel Bermúdez in Cuba, April 23...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read
Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 6, 202211 min read
Red Review #43 -- International Left and Labour News
The forty-third edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Kenya, India, Portugal, Cuba,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 12, 20217 min read
Starbucks US union first: Red Review #35 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-fifth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from the US, Australia, the UK, Nepal,...
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