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Peru After the Soft Coup
Image via X By Jaime Bravo and Jorge Coulon Dina Boluarte’s removal from office is not a victory for the people, but an internal readjustment of power. Congress did not obey the clamor of the streets, but rather the need to preserve a system that is crumbling from within. The fuse was changed so that the same machinery could continue to run: the pact between plutocracy, corruption, and fear. Boluarte was useful as long as she maintained the order imposed after the fall of Ped

The Left Chapter
Oct 143 min read


Protests continue in Peru, as polls register 96% rejection of Boluarte
Protesters are demanding an end to the government with the highest disapproval rating on the entire continent. Boluarte, however, says...

The Left Chapter
Oct 94 min read


Retired Peruvian general claims Dina Boluarte is responsible for massacres of civilians in anti-coup protests
In an interview, Victor Canales implied that Dina Boluarte may be responsible for the deaths of dozens of people during the protests of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 284 min read


Amnesty International Alleges Boluarte May Have Deliberately Planned Violent Repression of Anti-Coup Protests in Peru
Police in Peru attack anti-coup protestors in 2023 -- image via X By Global News Service On July 18, Amnesty International published an...
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20241 min read


Final Declaration of the XXVII Meeting of the São Paulo Forum
Photo of the final plenary session of the XXVII FSP Meeting, June 27 -- photo via the FSP The XXVII Meeting of the leftist and...
Michael Laxer
Jul 2, 20249 min read


Red Review #105 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Greece, Ghana, Cuba, China, the USA, France, Turkey, Brazil, Peru and elsewhere. There is also a special section of...
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 202315 min read


Final Declaration of the XXVI Meeting of the São Paulo Forum
Final plenary photo of the XXVI Meeting of the Forum -- photo via the Sao Paulo Forum The XXVI Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum was held in...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 202310 min read


WFTU organizes International Solidarity Day with the people of Peru
On January 31 the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and its member unions held a Solidarity Day with the people of Peru in struggle...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20232 min read


Peru Resists!: Mass protests met with intense repression in wake of coup
Latest developments. Workers and Indigenous groups rally against the coup in Cusco, Peru, December 14 -- Image via Twitter On December 7...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20224 min read


Peruvian coup: Castillo overthrown by right-wing oligarchy aligned with US imperialism
Latest developments. Supporters of Castillo rally in Lima, December 8 On December 7 leftist Peruvian president Pedro Castillo was...
Michael Laxer
Dec 9, 20227 min read


Honduran right concedes, leftist Xiomara Castro wins presidency
Xiomara Castro has won a landslide election 12 years after the 2009 US and Canadian backed military coup. Her win is being celebrated by...
Michael Laxer
Nov 30, 20212 min read


Red Review #21: International Left and Labour News
The twenty-first edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Greece, Bolivia, Cuba, China, the...
Michael Laxer
Sep 4, 202112 min read


Red Review #20: International Left and Labour News
The twentieth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Peru, the USA, Bolivia, the UK, Canada...
Michael Laxer
Aug 29, 202112 min read


Red Review #18 -- International Left and Labour News
The eighteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Ecuador, Zambia, Venezuela, Peru,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20219 min read


Lima Group dying with a whimper not a bang
Pedro Castillo greets Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza during his inauguration ceremony -- photo via twitter The pet imperialist...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20212 min read


Castillo inaugurated: Red Review #16 -- International Left and Labour News
The sixteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Peru, Cuba, the US, Canada, the UK and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20218 min read


The "poor, if well organised, can set themselves a political agenda and defeat their rich"
The victory of leftist Pedro Castillo in Peru's Presidential election after weeks of far right candidate Keiko Fujimori delaying the...
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20212 min read


Castillo victorious: Red Review #15 -- International Left and Labour News
The fifteenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Peru, Cuba, Ukraine, Canada, the UK...
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20218 min read


Greece Resists: Red Review #10 -- International Left and Labour News
The tenth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Russia, Greece, India, the United States,...
Michael Laxer
Jun 20, 20219 min read


Castillo wins vote in Peru as Fujimori refuses to concede
Leftist Pedro Castillo has won the presidential election in Peru by 44,058 votes. But many fear that far-right candidate Fujimori may...
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20214 min read
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