Venezuelan lawyer Olga Álvarez: “Whoever alleges fraud has to prove it”
The United States, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Panama recognized González as president, in a strategy dubbed “Guaidó 2.0”
Progressive Congresswoman Cori Bush loses primary to AIPAC-backed rival
Under attack by the same pro-Israel lobbyist offensive as fellow progressive Jamaal Bowman, Bush loses Democratic Party primary in another blow to progressives
In appeal to growing progressive sector, Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as running mate
The Minnesota Governor has a well known progressive track record on many issues, although most people in the US are unfamiliar with him
IT workers in India continue protests against increase in working hours
Unions claim millions of IT/ITes employees in India are already overworked without adequate compensation and condemn the move to normalize the 14-hour workday
Sheikh Hasina resigns as prime minister and leaves Bangladesh following mass protests
The protests, initially led by students demanding reforms in the quota system in government jobs, took a violent turn in the last weeks of July
Waves of protests follow police killing of Sonya Massey
Massey’s police killing was caught on a video which circulated social media, depicting the impunity of US police in wielding violence
Left and civil society groups demand India end its complicity in Israel’s genocide
Left parties will observe a day of solidarity with Palestine on August 3 to pressure the Indian government to stop sending weapons to Israel and to end the genocide
Pakistani workers build unity, chart path of struggle against anti-worker measures in Lahore conference
The conference raised the demands of better implementation of minimum wage laws, nationalization of the Independent Power Plants (IPP), and opposed a united labor code