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Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — not just of disease, but of violence, exploitation, and corporate capture.

Jacobin talks to Fidel Narvaez, the ousted Ecuadorian diplomat who handled Julian Assange’s case about why Lenín Moreno caved to international pressure, broke his promises, and gave Assange up to British authorities.

Furious mass protests in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, election news with left parties in play, and more!

The Assault on Kurds in Syria * Ecuador * Scientists for Climate Action * Poland * Indonesia * Tunisia * UK * Bolivia * Egypt

Portugal * Mexico * Swaziland * Greece * UK * Ecuador * Iraq * Colombia * Russia

Puerto Rico * Algeria * Japan * Italy * Ecuador * Nicaragua * Malaysia * Spain

Sudan * Algeria * Indonesia * Islam and the Left * Cuba and Venezuela * UK Labour Leader Remembered * Turkey * Auto Strike Wins in Hungary * Showdown for the Amazon * Global Bern

Assange's arrest, The INA Papers Scandal and the IMF deal

The main lesson of correísmo is that no project of transformation, if it wants to sustain and even deepen social change, can weaken the people who propel it forward.

Labor: Europeans Talk Strategy, Canadians Oppose Venezuela Coup Threat. Streets: Yellow Vests, Sudan, Russia. Jungle: Ecuador's Indigenous. And a New Appreciation of Rosa