Lithium

Why Bolivia Is Exploding

June 18, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Bolivia, Latin America, Lithium, Sovereignty, US Imperialism

As road blockades spread across Bolivia and labor unions bring major transportation routes to a standstill, the country’s political crisis has become impossible to ignore. Fuel shortages have disrupted daily life. Supply chains have been strained. Protesters have erected more than one hundred blockades across the country, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz less than a year after he took office. At first glance, the unrest appears to be another chapter in Latin America’s long history of economic turmoil and political instability.

Bolivia: US Interference Through Military Intelligence Support Is Denounced

June 1, 2026 Resumen English. Resist! Bolivia, Lithium, National Strike, US Interference

Bolivian political leader Christian Velasco denounces U.S. interference in Bolivia’s internal affairs and rejects the policy of surrendering Bolivia’s natural resources—especially lithium—in exchange for military security for the ruling elites. “We want to denounce that our country is being held hostage by the U.S. and that there is serious interference in the affairs of Bolivians,” stated Velasco. According to the leader, military attachés from the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Southern Command are instructing Bolivia’s Minister of Defense and Armed Forces to suppress protests and social mobilizations.

No Peace For Paz: Bolivian Movements Demand President Resign

May 19, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Resist! Bolivia, Bolivian Workers’ Center (COB), Evo Morales, Lithium, National Strike, Repression, Rodrigo Paz

The protests in Bolivia against Rodrigo Paz’s neoliberal government continue to intensify. The main roads leading into and out of La Paz and El Alto remain closed following violent clashes between protesters and state forces on May 16. Over 50 people have been arrested, and dozens been injured. The roadblocks have triggered a genuine and critical political and economic crisis in Bolivia. Initially, the first protests were launched by groups of farmers who opposed the controversial Law 1720, considered one of the most significant agricultural reforms in Bolivian history.

US Counterinsurgency Wins In Bolivia

August 21, 2025 Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Bolivia, Elections, Left Politics, Lithium, US Regime Change

On Sunday August 17, 2025, the first round of presidential elections in the Plurinational State of Bolivia were held in the small Andean nation of 12 million people. Now the country is headed to an October 19 run-off between centrist Christian Democratic Party Senator Rodrigo Paz, the son of a former president, and former right wing President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga of the Libre Party. The election results on Sunday ended twenty years of MAS-IPSP (Movement Towards Socialism - Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the People) in power with MAS candidate and current Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo polling at between 1-2%, effectively completing the objectives of the 2019 coup.

The Search For Green Common Ground

October 17, 2024 Emmett Hopkins, In These Times. Organize! Communities, Electric Vehicles, Green Transition, Lithium, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last fall, indigenous organizers in northern Chile walked the perimeter of vast salt flats, in a region where multinational mining companies control lithium evaporation ponds and other mineral extraction operations that have been documented to inflict damage against local peoples’ sacred and life-sustaining lands. Five thousand miles to the north, auto workers in Michigan prepared to walk off the job at noon to demand, in addition to decent pay and working conditions, the inclusion of workers at the companies’ expanding electric vehicle (EV) and battery operations.

Europe’s Thirst For Green Imperialism In Serbia

September 5, 2024 Revolutionary People’s Party-Front, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Europe, Green Imperialism, Imperialism, Lithium, NATO, Serbia, Western imperialism

On the 18th of June 2024, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany visited Serbia. The two countries signed an agreement to give mining permits to German industrialists in the lithium-rich region of Jadar in Western Serbia. This will enable Germany to continue to compete with China’s manufacturing capabilities. Mass protests are ongoing in Serbia against this project and the selling of natural resources with complete disregard for the environmental ramifications. This deal between Serbia and Germany comes amidst imperialist tactics that are unfairly trying to compete with China’s advancements in the mass production of electric vehicles (EVs) through tax hikes on Chinese EVs and making Europeans hoard the market share without fair competition.

Serbians Protest Rio Tinto’s Lithium Mining Project

August 11, 2024 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Resist! European Union (EU), Lithium, Mining, Rio Tinto, Serbia

Mass protests have erupted across Serbia in response to Rio Tinto’s reignited plan to develop a lithium mining project in the west of the country. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in over 40 locations, with a major demonstration planned for August 10 in Belgrade. Protesters are demanding that the government pass a law to block the exploitation of lithium and boron, warning that they are prepared to escalate actions if their demands are not met. Nebojša Petković of the platform Ne damo Jadar (We Won’t Give up Jadar) has stated that targeted blockades may be organized. Protesters have raised concerns about the devastating environmental impact Rio Tinto’s Jadar Project would have.

Mining Lithium In Europe’s (Semi) Periphery

July 14, 2024 Nina Djukanović, Lefteast. Strategize! Europe, Imperialism, Lithium, Mining, sacrifice zone, The Balkans

Perhaps more than any other material, lithium has, in recent years, been increasingly presented as the silver bullet for the so-called twin transition—the digital and the green transitions. Lithium is essential to most conventional batteries used in diverse technologies, from phones and laptops to increasingly and overwhelmingly so in electric vehicles. It has become the symbol of growth-based solutions to climate change where technological fixes, rather than more equitable and just structural changes, take the primary role. Escalating concerns within the EU regarding its material sovereignty and security have been intensified by the conflict in Ukraine and the growing awareness about China’s dominance of the battery supply chain, as well as other green technologies.

Thacker Pass Protectors File First-Ever ‘Biodiversity Necessity Defense’

March 27, 2024 Max Wilbert, Last Real Indians. Resist! Biodiversity, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Activism, Lithium, Necessity defense, Nevada, Thacker Pass

Winnemuca, Nevada — In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’ The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.

SOUTHCOM Chief: United States Has A ‘5-Year Plan’ For Ecuador

January 26, 2024 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Ecuador, gang violence, Lithium, SouthCom, US Imperialism

The commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), General Laura Richardson, stated that the United States has a “five-year plan” in terms of security for Ecuador. “There are several things that we have done very recently with Ecuador,” General Richardson said in an interview with the Ecuadorian media Primicius on Tuesday, January 23. “For example, we have the Security Assistance Roadmap, called ESAR, with Ecuador. There is only one other country in the region with which we have signed this roadmap.” According to Richardson, the ESAR is a five-year plan that outlines “cooperation in security matters,” and it includes a binational working group to facilitate the exchange “between the Pentagon and Ecuador.”

‘You Can’t Mine Your Way Out Of A Climate Crisis’

September 13, 2023 Brandi Morin and Geordie Day, The Real News Network. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Joe Biden, Lithium, Nevada, Thacker Pass

In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local Indigenous tribes and powerful state and corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action. The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capitalize on the transition to a “green energy economy,” for which lithium is essential.

Indigenous Resistance Challenges Ontario’s ‘Mining Boom’

August 8, 2023 Owen Schalk, Canadian Dimension. Resist! Canada, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Sovereignty, Lithium, Mining

As Canada’s governments hungrily scour domestic and foreign territory in search of critical minerals—an essential part of Ottawa’s new Cold War on China—Ontario Premier Doug Ford is attempting to spin demand into a provincial mining boom. Ontario’s first-ever Critical Minerals Strategy (CMS), announced alongside a federal initiative of the same name, proclaims that the province is “incredibly fortunate” and “blessed with exquisite deposits of nickel, lithium, platinum, cobalt and dozens of other strategically important raw materials.” Ford’s economic policies are catering to mining companies that yearn for unfettered access to these resource supplies, even as Indigenous communities organize to resist the extractivist bonanza.

The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game

July 27, 2023 Binoy Kampmark, Counter Punch. Educate! Afghanistan, Lithium, Sanctions, US Imperialism

While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound to be permanent. Since then, Washington has led the charge in handicapping those who, with a fraction of the resources, defeated a superpower and prevailed in two decades of conflict. In a fit of wounded pride, the United States has, in turn, sought to strangulate and asphyxiate the Taliban regime, citing human rights and security concerns. The Taliban’s Interim Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, makes the not unreasonable point that “the ongoing crisis is the imposition of sanctions and banking restrictions by the United States.”

Lithium Nevada Lawsuit Aims To Stop Praying At Sacred Site

June 21, 2023 Last Real Indians. Educate! Indigenous Rights, Lithium, Mining, Nevada, Sacred sites

Reno, Nevada — Lithium Nevada Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Protect Thacker Pass and seven people for opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine. The lawsuit is similar to what is called a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” or SLAPP suit, aimed at shutting down free speech and protest. The suit aims to ban the prayerful land defenders from the area and force them to pay monetary damages which could total millions of dollars. “This lawsuit is targeting Native Americans and their allies for a non-violent prayer to protect the 1865 Thacker Pass massacre site,” said Terry Lodge, attorney working with the group.

Ox Sam Camp Being Raided

June 8, 2023 Ox Sam Camp, Facebook. Resist! Indigenous Activism, Lithium, Mining, Nevada, Sacred sites

Orovada, NV — This morning, a group of Native American water protectors and allies used their bodies to non-violently block construction of the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada, turning back bulldozers and heavy equipment. The dramatic scene unfolded this morning as workers attempting to dig trenches near Sentinel Rock were turned back by land defenders who ran and put their bodies between heavy equipment and the land. Now they are being arrested and camp is being raided. Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone people consider Thacker Pass to be sacred.

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