Uprising

Chile Erupts In Popular Uprising Against Capitalist Injustice

October 26, 2019 Karla Martin and Sebastian Link, Liberationnews.org Resist! Capitalism, Chile, Class Struggle, Uprising

Chile is fighting back and the people refuse to be silent any longer. Beginning October 18, a people’s movement has risen, started by high school students who made a call to protest against the increase of transportation fares. But no one predicted that this call to mobilize would spark an uprising of the Chilean people. What is behind the massive demonstrations nationwide is a profoundly unequal economic system, created by decades of neoliberal policies that have continuously increased the cost of living while wages have stayed stagnant.

Stirrings Of Basic Change Accompany Protests In Haiti

October 25, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Counterpunch.org Educate! Class Struggle, Haiti, Protests, Uprising

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Food availability is uncertain for 60 percent of the people. Conditions are bleak, and bleaker still from shortages, rampant political corruption, and not much to show after two years of regular street protests. In the year prior to September, security forces killed 77 people. That month protests accentuated and by October 7 they had killed at least 17 more. One observer looking at recrudescence of turmoil recently describes “lockdown.”

Reviewing The Crisis In Ecuador: An Indigenous Perspective And The Uncertainty Of The Future

October 22, 2019 Marco Teruggi, Sputnik News, Translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America Bureau Resist! Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Uprising

The indigenous communities are meeting in assemblies to debate the uprising they led in Ecuador. Have they achieved their objectives? What is their balance? Sputnik was in the community of Cochapamba, where they were able to talk to the protagonists. The community of Cochapamba located in Pichincha, two hours from Quito and at an altitude of 3,800 meters (over 12,000 feet), is in assembly. Quechua is spoken with a few words in Spanish, and it is done with strength, reflection, pain and will. It is the first space for collective debate after the days and nights of protests and mobilizations in Quito. Seven people who were wounded are not able to participate.

“We Can’t Remain Indifferent”: Chile Trade Unions Call For General Strike In Support Of Student-Led Uprising

October 22, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! General Strike, Labor Unions, Students, Uprising

As protests against the Chilean government continued Monday, trade unions across the South American country called for a general strike to support demonstrators drawing attention to the nation's high cost of living, inequality, and injustice. "We can't remain indifferent to the social movement out there," Escondida Union No. 1 president Patricio Tapia, whose organization voted to stop work at the Escondida copper mine for 10 hours Monday night or Tuesday morning, told Bloomberg Monday.

Ecuador: Government To Drop IMF-Decree, Deal Reached Strike Over

October 14, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Ecuador, Reform, Uprising

United Nations-backed dialogue table installed between Lenin Moreno's governement and leaders of Indigenous organizations reached a historic deal Sunday to revoke pro-IMF Decree 883, end strikes across the country, and to set up a comission that will write the new document that will replace it. The U.N. Representative in Ecuador Arnaud Peral informed that the new decree will be drawn up by organizations of the Indigenous movement, participants from the dialogue and the government with mediation from the international body and the Catholic church.

Ecuador: A Rebellion For The Renewal Of Struggle

October 12, 2019 Staff, Towardfreedom.org Resist! Class Struggle, Ecuador, Latin America, Uprising

Once again, an Indigenous and popular uprising in Ecuador has given light and hope to continental struggles for dignified life. Over the past days, women, children and elders from the diverse nations and Indigenous communities in Ecuador have paralyzed highways, and carried out assemblies in their communities, neighborhoods, and cities. These dignified women and men, who live at the middle of the world, have risen up to recover and take back their country, their present and their future, which is under threat once more by the same elites as always...

Moreno Flees Capital Of Ecuador As Thousands Of Indigenous Enter City

October 8, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Ecuador, IMF, Latin America, Uprising

In his short five-minute televised speech, the Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno informed the seat of government has been moved to Guayaquil. The president then went ahead to accuse, with no evidence, that the protests against his government are financed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. With the Military Brass standing behind him and both, his vice president and minister of defense to each side, the head of state then reiterated that he won't back down from the decision to eliminate fuel subsidies as he dubbed it "historic."

‘The Drone Revolution’: Ecuadorians Revolt Against Repressive US-Backed President Lenin Moreno’s Neoliberal Policies

October 8, 2019 Denis Rogatyuk, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Ecuador, IMF, Latin America, Repression, Uprising

“Se acabó la zanganería” — “The zanganería is over.” With these words, uttered on October 4, Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno proclaimed the end of a 40-year policy of fuel and petrol subsidies, which had traditionally benefited his country’s working-class population. Zángano, the Spanish word for a male honey bee, otherwise known as a drone, is a slang term traditionally used by rich, elite parts of society to refer to workers and the poor, whom they denigrate as “mindless” or “uneducated.” The use of the term by Moreno, a close ally of Washington, reflected the president’s resentful attitude toward ordinary Ecuadorians.

Ecuador: The Time Of People’s Rebellion

October 8, 2019 Carlos Aznarez, Resumen Latinoamericano, translation North America bureau Resist! Class Struggle, Ecuador, IMF, Latin America, Uprising

It is not quite the same as the uprising that occurred during Venezuela’s Caracazo in 1989 but it is very similar. In that opportunity, then President Carlos Andres Perez, beholden to the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), also decided to increase public transportation fares and a people’s rebellion provided the ground work for what would become Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Venezuela. The events unfolding in Ecuador are the result of the implementation of the IMF’s coercive manual, undertaken by a person who pretended to be somebody and suddenly became somebody else.

Haiti On Brink Of Revolution To Overthrow US-Backed Regime

October 3, 2019 Staff, Orinocotribune.com Resist! Caribbean, Class Struggle, Haiti, Regime Change, Uprising

The aid money came through Venezuela’s PetroCaribe program, which had allowed Haiti to buy petroleum products at discount and on credit. However, the program has now been suspended for more than a year because of the interests of US imperialism, which backs the Haitian regime and has supported coup attempts to install a right-wing regime in Venezuela. The suspension has meant that Haiti’s long-suffering people have been faced with an extra burden: an ever-worsening fuel shortage that has resulted in closed service stations, rising prices and long lines to buy petrol.

Uprising In Times Of War

September 24, 2019 Pasqualina Curcio, Red Angostura, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Uprising, Wars and Militarism

It is necessary to unveil the enormity of the economic war continuing against the Venezuelan people. It’s been seven years since transnational and national monopolies put us in long lines, jumping from store to store so as to find our staples (food, medicine, and hygiene products). Our currency, the Bolivar (BsS), has been attacked by 29,862,393,456 percent: In 2012, the exchange rate was 8.69 BsS/US$. Today, criminal websites without any judgment or economics but political and bellicose grounds, rate 2,595,042,000 BsS/US$. Prices have not stopped increasing as a result since 2013.

How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings

September 3, 2019 Staff, Caitlinjohnstone.com Educate! Propaganda, Protests, Uprising

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled “Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement“. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name “Daniel”, has joined the protests in Hong Kong. That’s it. That’s the whole entire bombshell newsworthy news story. “In Australia we have proper democracy but in Hong Kong, democracy is being slowly eroded away and I’ll try to do whatever I can to try and help the cause,” the anonymous guy told ABC.

NicaNotes: “Live From Nicaragua : Uprising Or Coup?”

April 20, 2019 Staff, Afgj.org Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Uprising

As we stand here today on the brink of the one year anniversary of the spasm of violence and confusion that engulfed Nicaragua last year, it is time to tell the truth and correct the historical record about what actually happened during three months of violence. The Alliance for Global Justice, with contributions by over 20 co-authors plus editors, photographers, videographers, and folks who lived the terror of those times, has produced a free electronic book available in pdf and electronic book formats. Live from Nicaragua: Uprising our Coup? is a reader with both original articles and reprints of articles written during the troubled times.

Algeria In Revolt: “We Woke Up And You Will Pay!”

April 11, 2019 Hamza Hamouchene, Roarmag.org Resist! Algeria, Class Struggle, Uprising

The abdication of President Bouteflika is a historic victory for the Algerian people — but the struggle for a true democratic transition is far from over. What is happening in Algeria is truly historic. The people won the first battle in their struggle to radically overhaul the system. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president for the past twenty years, was forced to abdicate after more than six weeks of street protests and a re-configuration of alliances within the ruling classes.

Gaza, Stonewall: Izzy Mustafa On Why People Rise Up

April 1, 2019 Susie Day, Counterpunch.org Resist! Israel, Palestine, Uprising

Every Friday since March 30, 2018, in what’s known as the Great March of Return, Palestinians in Gaza come to the Israeli border fence to protest nearly twelve years of a blockade that has made Gaza into what’s often called the world’s largest open-air prison. They also come to invoke UN Resolution 194, their right to return in peace to their homes, from which they were expelled in 1948 when Israel was created. Last year alone, some 189 Palestinians – including children, journalists, and the disabled – were killed at the border, most by Israeli live ammunition; 23,000 have been injured.

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