The string of attacks and the assassination of presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay led to a shift in President Gustavo Petro's strategy. In a pre-electoral year, heading towards the 2026 elections, security returns to the centre of the agenda, with the risk that armed groups will increase violence whilst awaiting the new government, while confronting each other for territorial control. On 21st August, two violent attacks shook different regions of Colombia. In the morning, Front (…)

East Timorese students demonstrated for the second consecutive day against the purchase of cars for deputies. The main parties assure they will reverse the acquisition, but a third day of protest is already scheduled against social inequalities. On Tuesday, for the second consecutive time, there were protests in Dili. This time there were more than 2,000 demonstrators, double the previous day, protesting against the purchase of cars for each of the country's 65 deputies. The acquisition (…)

Plus de 726 millions de dollars américains (618 millions d'euros) de financement destinés à lutter contre le travail des enfants, l'esclavage moderne et la répression sur les lieux de travail s'évaporeront bientôt à cause du démantèlement des protections des travailleurs par l'administration Trump, révèle Equal Times. Les abus et l'exploitation des travailleurs ainsi que la répression des syndicats seront très certainement exacerbés par ces coupes budgétaires, estime Kelly Fay Rodriguez, (…)

More than US$726 million (€658 million) of funding to prevent child labour, modern slavery and workplace repression is set to be axed in a bonfire of worker protections being stoked by the Trump administration, “Equal Times” reports. Worker abuse, exploitation and union-busting will almost certainly be turbo-charged by the cuts, according to the former US Special Representative for International Labour Affairs under the Biden administration, Kelly Fay Rodriguez. “Unfortunately, it is (…)

On the left, there is an urgent need to return to basics, where door-to-door canvassing and grassroots work in factories and schools are not just carried out during election periods, but because they are an effective way of countering misinformation and laying the foundations for changing the material reality and deepening the reality of activism. Toupeira Vermelha – The Red Mole, a collective of militants of the Fourth International I. Introduction 1. Fifty years ago, Portugal held its (…)

Many of us were on vacation last month, but President Donald Trump was hard at work, dismantling American democracy and creating a reactionary authoritarian state. Trump, in an attempt to take personal and absolute control of the federal government in unprecedented moves of dubious legality, terminated three top level government officials. First, he fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, claiming she had “faked” jobs numbers to make it look like Trump's economic (…)