Letters to Maduro and Cilia

Popular movements from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from other regions, are joining a permanent campaign of solidarity with Nicolás Maduro, Cilia Flores and the Venezuelan people.

Popular movements from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from other regions, are joining a permanent campaign of solidarity with Nicolás Maduro, Cilia Flores and the Venezuelan people.

Across finance, culture, security, and diplomacy, the Sahel is waging a many-sided struggle to break with French neo-colonialism and build sovereignty from the ground up.

On 24 August 2026, 45 deputies took their seats in Niamey's Mahatma Gandhi conference centre for the inaugural session of the Confederal Parliament of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), 15 each from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. It is the last major piece of an institutional architecture that already runs to a flag, a common biometric passport, a confederal television network and, on paper, a 500 billion CFA franc development bank.

Behind the rhetoric of "national security" lies a global strategy to isolate, criminalize, and dismantle the movements fighting for justice, sovereignty, and socialism.

A parliamentary republic, an imperial power, a right-wing Andean government, and a monarchy share no region, no alliance, and no form of government. Between them, the same legal instrument is nonetheless spreading: statutes and decrees written in the language of “terrorism” and “national security” that treat political opposition itself as a threat to be policed

The gathering will bring together movement leaders, scholars, journalists, diplomats, trade unionists, and representatives of progressive political parties and people’s organizations to build a common agenda for sovereignty and solidarity.

From Iran to Cuba, from Palestine to Okinawa, this month reminds us that imperialism globalizes war while peoples globalize solidarity.

Recent updates from his legal team, including Nasser Odeh, suggest that the conditions at Nafha prison have not improved; in fact, the bureaucratic and physical walls surrounding the doctor seem to have hardened.

The Conference of the Left was initiated by the South African Communist Party (SACP), but very quickly became a project of a steering committee that included a range of organisations (trade unions, Black Consciousness political formations, and breakaway groups from the African National Congress). Meetings across the spectrum of political organisations in South Africa became the method to invite them to come with an open mind to this gathering and to see if they could build a minimum programme of action through a Council of the Left.

From Palestine to Cuba, Lebanon to Bolivia, the workers of the world continue to defend sovereignty, dignity, and collective survival against imperialist aggression.