Editor's note: The following speech on the "Anti-Blockade Constitutional Law for National Development and Guarantee of Human Rights" was delivered by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to National Constituent Assembly on September 29, 2020 and was approved just over...
Editor's note: Imposed in 1968, Institutional Act No. 5 lifted all restraint on the military dictatorship that came to power in Brazil in the 1964 coup, opening the doors to unbridled repression, the most grotesque forms of torture, and political killings in the hands...
The dreaded day has come. Jair Bolsonaro has taken office as President of Brazil. In its first month, the new administration rolled back social progress. Expected increases to the minimum wage were reduced. LGBTQ people were removed from Brazil's human rights...
In the wake of Venezuela’s successful election this summer, and with the Chavista movement having clear momentum headed into the October 15th regional elections, the U.S. government is turning the screws on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. Donald Trump affirmed...
“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” –Malcolm X I am an Afro-Dominican woman from the Bronx, New York and...
Forty-one years ago, on May 10, 1975, an assassin’s bullets robbed the world of the brilliance, creativity and unwavering socialist commitment of Roque Dalton. Salvadorian and revolutionary youth the world over stand to learn a great deal from this unsung hero and his...
The Dominican Republic is the only oppressed country that celebrates its “independence” from another oppressed, colonized country, Haiti. For generations, the fear-mongering, racist Dominican ruling class has deliberately manipulated the history of the two countries,...
Puerto Ricans, both in the homeland and in the diaspora, stand on the shoulders of anti-colonial giants. The colonial education system continues to use everything in its power to delete our heroes from our national memory. October 31st, 1950 gave birth to one such...
The following article is republished from Invent the Future with the permission of the author. “The Grenada Revolution was a grasp of joy … that life unfulfilled could and would change, be transformed for a people who had known 400 years of transportation, slavery,...