Latin America

Successful struggles for change give inspiration

Saturday, June 18, 2011
Members of the recent Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela. Photo: Sean Brocklehurst

In April and May, while in South America as part of solidarity brigades to Venezuela and Bolivia, I met some people who have risked everything to make their communities and their countries better places to live. I became so used to people passionately fighting for things they believed in that when I returned to Australia I received a sharp shock.

Suddenly I was back among people who, in general, did not care much or want to know about issues of inequality or other problems in our society. It is for these people that this is written.

Haiti: A natural and human-made catastrophe combine

Haiti: a natural and human-made catastrophe combine

Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on January 12. But it's no accident that so much of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone.

Resistance member interviewed by Al Jazeera on Colombia crisis

Fred Fuentes, an activist with Resistance and currently living in Venezuela as a member of the Caracas Green Left Weekly bureau, did an extensive three-way interview with Al Jazeera English on the Colombia crisis, in his capacity as "an aide to a top advisor of President Hugo Chavez" and "fellow at the Miranda International Centre". Check it out!

Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum

October 11-14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia

A conference to share ideas and experiences between Latin American, Asia-Pacific and Australian social movements, political organisations and individual activists, and to build solidarity with grassroots movements and political organisations fighting neo-liberalism.

Free the Cuban 5

[Resistance received the following call to action from our comrades in the Young Communists´ Union, Cuba. Please help distribute this call and contact your local Resistance branch to help out in building solidarity with the Cuban 5] Friends and comrades all over the world,
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