
Solidarity Center documents wage theft in Zimbabwe
Workers in Zimbabwe are seeing their already-low wages stolen at alarming rates.

After Berta Cáceres, another Honduran Indigenous environmental activist murdered
Lesbia Yaneth Urquía protested against mining companies building dams to provide water for their destructive activities.

Senate votes to slash minimum wage for youth in Puerto Rico
"Over the last five years alone, more than 150 public schools have been shut down and the childhood poverty rate in Puerto Rico is now 58 percent."

Germany: Drones and new tones
On June 11, 5,000 people came by bus, train, car, a few by bicycle, defying nasty weather to circle the Ramstein Air Base and demand it's closing.

Brazilian Left pushing hard for referendum to stop rightward slide
The referendum would authorize new elections for October, but this depends on first defeating the efforts of the right to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office.

Growth of far right party cause for alarm in Germany
Most alarming, since Germany is the strongest, most central European country, is the strength of its far-right Alternative for Germany.

Ex-dictator, others sentenced in Argentina for "Operation Condor" crimes
A court in Buenos Aires convicted General Reynaldo Bignone and 14 other officers of crimes against humanity committed during the "Dirty War" of 1976-83.

Brazil coup a plot to cover up corruption among the plotters?
The scandal strongly suggests that Rousseff's impeachment was part of a conspiracy to cover up corruption among those who engineered her ouster.

Brazil: President Rousseff ousted by Senate, Temer names right wing Cabinet
The accusation was that Rousseff's government had filled budget shortfalls in 2014 and 2015 by shifting money from the central bank to cover social welfare programs' needs.

"There is hope": Asamblea Morena reaffirms its social movement roots
In its May 10 assembly in Seattle, Mexican left political movement Morena came together to form a plan for unity and solidarity with the immigrants' rights movement.

