In a world of plenty, why does hunger persist? Hunger is intolerable. World hunger, which had declined from 2005 to 2014, has begun to rise since then; world hunger is now at 2010 levels. The major exception to this trend has been China, which eradicated extreme poverty in 2020. The UN’s Food and...
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM LA VIA CAMPESINA, AS WE MARK 25 YEARS OF OUR COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Food Sovereignty is a philosophy of life. It offers a vision for our collective future, and defines the principles around which we organize our daily living and co-exist with Mother Earth....
Despite our adventures into space we know that, for now, we humans have only one planet to call home. Our survival here is dependent of the survival of all living things here; plant and animal. The unrestrained extraction and exploitation of natural resources for profit by the large corporations,...
Humanity is going through tough times wherein capitalism is showing its most cruel face: it is trying to use the situation of the public health emergency provoked by the expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic to do business and increase profits. It is clear, yet again, that neoliberal policies of...
In defense of life over profit: Vaccine and public, free healthcare for all now! The COVID-19 pandemic has universally put on display the contradictions of capitalism that put profit before people’s lives: The pharmaceutical companies are only concerned with their profits; they give the vaccines to...
To the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres To the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro To the governments of the member countries of the UN and the OAS To the people of Haiti and their organizations For consideration: Haiti is once again going through a profound crisis. Central to...
Haiti is once again experiencing a deep crisis. Today, a central element of this crisis is the struggle against the dictatorship imposed by ex-president Jovenel Moïse who finished his presidential mandate on February 7 of this year. However, he refuses to leave office, and has the support of US...
March 8, 2021 On International Women’s Day, we, the movements and organizations of the International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle, reaffirm our commitment in the revolutionary struggle against patriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism in all corners of the world. Inspired by the anti-fascist and...
We the people of the world suffer from dispossession and injustice inflicted by US imperialism. We will no longer tolerate the lies and attacks against our brothers and sisters that decide to not follow the plans of the White House. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its legitimate government and...
As the movements and organizations which are part of the International Peoples’ Assembly we join in the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. We salute the feminist struggle that women and people of diverse genders are waging across the globe against...
‘Our enemy is imperialism, not abstract art’, said Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Imperialism is the third in a series of four Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibitions launched in the context of the week of actions being held 5-10 October 2020. It gathers work from sixty-three artists and militants from...
Português When confronted by us hungry bellies, the imperialists reach for their guns. When confronted by imperialists, we hungry bellies lock arms and march forward. Our humanity is threatened by an invisible virus that spreads rapidly; but we have long been challenged by other viruses, such as...
The Zionist occupation forces are looking for yet another opportunity of expansion into Palestinian lands with unprecedented support from its main imperialist ally, the US On May 30, 2020 Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his government’s plan to annex 30% of the West Bank on...
On January 28th, 2020, US President Donald Trump announced the political part of the so-called "deal of the century". This political plan seeks to exterminate the Palestinian cause and terminate the historic rights of the Palestinian people for self-determination, building their...
We firmly denounce the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department and demand full and uncompromising justice for his family. We join the call and demand for justice of thousands of families across the United States who have lost someone to police violence. We express our resounding...
Protests and demonstrations have broken out across the United States following the murder of George Floyd on May 25th. George Floyd was killed by police officers when one of them actually placed his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. In the aftermath, these protests have demanded justice,...
Image: All-Africa Peoples Conference Accra, Ghana 1958. May 25 is celebrated as African Liberation Day. It is a commemoration of the struggles for liberation from colonialism, and specifically marks a key date in the struggle for Pan-African unity: the formation of the Organisation of African Unity...
It has been more than one hundred years since the first International Worker’s Day on May 1st. It is a day of struggle and celebration that historically has brought millions of people from political and worker’s movements to the streets. This May 1st, 2020, will not be the same. The necessary...
the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle– La Via Campesina will keep alive the memory of #EldoradoDosCarajás in Brazil and our continued fight against Corporate and State impunity. The COVID-19 crisis shows us that now is the moment to demand structural reforms of the agri-food systems at a...
Statement by Social Movements of ALBA on the situation in Venezuela: We again denounce the actions of US imperialism in its attacks against the people and government of Venezuela. We have done this more than one hundred times, and we will have to do it a hundred times more, while this militaristic...
Following the announcement of the 21 day lockdown (27 March - 16 April) in South Africa, a clear order was given by the Department of Justice and Correctional Services stating that all evictions would be suspended for this period. Social movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, alongside 27 social justice...
People’s organizations, movements, political parties and international platforms have come together to strengthen the struggle against imperialism and defend the people amid an intensified global crisis The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the daily lives of people across the...
PDFs: Português Français Türkçe Català Deutsche Ελληνικά Norsk Italiano Español English The spread of COVID19 across the globe has generated a severe crisis, which will impact more than the thousands of people who have already been infected with this coronavirus. The way of life of the majority of...
Statement by the International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Introduction The global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease has paralyzed large parts of the world. In this context, on March 21, we launched a Declaration in which we...