EXTREMADURA: ELECTRIC BOOM
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Extremadura is currently one of the territories that is experiencing the explosion of so-called clean energies. Between lithium mines and photovoltaic panels its inhabitants see little return from this electrical colonization. The production of electrical energy with respect to the state total in 2019 was 8.07%. The 21,030 GWh generated in Extremadura place it in an outstanding sixth place, only surpassed by Catalonia, Andalusia, Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León. The balance of the energy generated in the Extremadura … Read more

INCREASING REPRESSION OF THE BURMESE JUNTA
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Since April 8th of 2021 2,857 people have been arrested or sentenced and 614 people have been assassinatedby the junta of the coup military forces in Burma according to data from the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners1, which implies an increase in the intensity of repression and violence since the first days of the military coup and the establishment of the Min Aung Hlaing military junta. On Armed Forces Day alone 114 civilians have lost their lives in a … Read more

NEW PENSION CUTS IN SPAIN
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The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, together with the social dialogue table, made up of Workers’ Commissions, UGT and the CEOE and Cepyme employers, have agreed on a pension reform1 that will force two more years of work, from the 64.5 years of the current retirement age to 66.5 and that will come into effect in 2024. To do this, they plan to penalize early retirement: cuts of up to 21% in ordinary early retirement and bonuses for … Read more

AFGHANISTAN: ANOTHER DEFEAT FOR NATO AND THE US
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The United States, together with its NATO allies, has staged its definitive withdrawal from Afghanistan in Bagram. On May 1, US forces began their process of withdrawing from Afghanistan, after twenty years fighting in what is so far the longest war in US history1. The decision to leave Afghanistan was agreed in the historic agreement between the Taliban and the US, which was signed on February 29, 2019 in Doha, with the aim of finding a way to end the … Read more

SAREB ENTERS INTO PUBLIC DEBT
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Since last March 23rdthe European Union obliges the Spanish State to count the debt of the Spanish bad bank Sareb in the Spanish public debt1. That means that 35 billion euros will be added to the accounting of the public debt of Spain, so it raise from 117% to 120% of GDP. Sareb was created with the objective of buying all toxic and problematic assets that the banks had in order to “clean” their balance sheets. The Minister of Economy … Read more

45 YEARS AFTER THE COUP D’ÉTAT IN ARGENTINA
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This past March 24th marked the 45th anniversary of the coup in Argentina led by the military man Videla and which gave way to the dictatorship (1976-1983) that plunged the Latin American country into repression, violence and a wave of regression in human rights.As every year the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice was commemorated. For the second consecutive year, the annual march is not held, in which punishment is requested for the responsible persons of the dictatorship … Read more

THE CASE OF SARAH EVERAD: FEMINICIDES AND HYPERVIGILANCE
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On March 3rd Sarah Everad disappeared. Days later a corpse was found whose remains corresponded to the 33-year-old woman and a police officer was charged with kidnapping and murder in London after the body of the missing girl was identified. The case has caused quite a stir in the UK1. On March 13th hundreds of women walked together on the streets in South London to demand better security2. They marched with candles and flowers but the metropolitan police received them … Read more

MADRID: SOCIAL SPACES IN DANGER
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Since the beginning of his mayoralty in June 2019 José Luis Martínez-Almeidahas not stopped fighting everything that seems to be left: Social movements, feminism, 15-M, Self-managed Social Centers ( CSAs) or organizations dedicated to historical memory. All this could be due to an ideological militancy of the extreme right or, as many suggest, it could well be due to the need to satisfy VOX, its majority partner in the government1. With regard to their fight against feminism, we have the … Read more

THE RISK TO FIGHT FOR ABORTION IN ANDORRA
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The situation in Andorra with regard to gender rights is largely unknown, despite its geographical proximity. One of the reasons is the Andorran government’s own willingness to project an image of modernity, taking into account that 54.5% of the country’s GDP1 (in 2015) is based on the Services sector. However this image is far from reality. In a country where all laws must be approved by one of the co-princes they have as heads of state and where one of them … Read more

THE ZAPATISTA CARAVAN WAS IN VIGO
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Last Tuesday, June 22, the first group of the Zapatista delegation of the “Tour for Life” disembarked in the port of Vigo, a journey of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation through the five continents, with the idea of “holding meetings, dialogues, exchanges of ideas, experiences, analysis and collaborations among those of us who are engaged in the struggle for Life”. The first group to come, Escuadrón 421, is made up of 7 people, although the entire delegation will be made … Read more

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