Michael Laxer
Highway Robbery: How Bad Trade Policies Make Life Unaffordable
A lawsuit over toll booths in Honduras shows how corporate trade policies make life unlivable in poor countries — and send people fleeing...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 135 min read
At least 196 environmental defenders were murdered in 2023
New Global Witness report documents the violence faced by those resisting extractive industries, with Latin America remaining the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 42 min read
Attacks on Xiomara Castro’s Government Escalate After Termination of Extradition Agreement With the U.S.
Xiomara Castro during a trip to Guatemala, June, 2024 - public domain image By Global News Service Following the termination of the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 274 min read
Honduras, Nicaragua and Caribbean countries defend Venezuelan elections
“The United States has repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of Latin America and the Caribbean, but not in favor of the people,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 42 min read
São Paulo Forum: Resolution of Solidarity with Cuba
The XXVII Meeting of the leftist and anti-imperialist São Paulo Forum (FSP) was held in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras from June 27...
Michael Laxer
Jul 29 min read
Final Declaration of the XXVII Meeting of the São Paulo Forum
Photo of the final plenary session of the XXVII FSP Meeting, June 27 -- photo via the FSP The XXVII Meeting of the leftist and...
Michael Laxer
Jul 12 min read
Sao Paulo Forum condemns Cuba blockade, denounces NATO imperialism and warmongering
By the International Relations Department of the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish The Final Declaration of the XXVII...
Michael Laxer
Nov 4, 20232 min read
Honduras and Turkey recall ambassadors as Israeli strikes hit UN schools and shelters
People look at the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza, November 4 Honduras and Turkey have joined Chile and Colombia in recalling...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 202310 min read
Red Review #113 -- International Left and Labour Report
With reports from Honduras, Greece, Cuba, Haiti. Libya, Zimbabwe, France, the USA and elsewhere. Hondurans rally in support of Leftist...
Michael Laxer
Apr 4, 202313 min read
Red Review #92 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Portugal, France, the USA, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Peru, the Philippines and elsewhere. Thousands rally in Lisbon,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 202323 min read
Red Review #90 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from France, Greece, Bulgaria, India, Belgium, Honduras, Sri Lanka, the UK and elsewhere. We have also republished in full the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20226 min read
2021: The year in review on The Left Chapter
2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 202111 min read
Xiomara Castro wins in Honduras: Red Review #34 -- International Left and Labour News
The thirty-fourth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Honduras, Australia, Laos, the US,...
Michael Laxer
Nov 30, 20212 min read
Honduran right concedes, leftist Xiomara Castro wins presidency
Xiomara Castro has won a landslide election 12 years after the 2009 US and Canadian backed military coup. Her win is being celebrated by...
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