One cannot turn on the television or read online news without hearing about Venezuela. Mainstream feminist organizations and media outlets are standing with the Trump administration in calling out the economic situation in Venezuela by blaming democratically-elected President Maduro as the cause of the economic crisis, and supporting the installation of US puppet Juan Guaidó. When […]
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Information related to struggles throughout Nuestra América.
Everything Points to the Intensification of Political Struggle in 2019
To the general membership of Unión del Barrio, to our supporters and friends: The Comité Central of Unión del Barrio wishes each of our members, supporters and friends an excellent 2019. Whether your goals are political, family related, or personal, we hope that they all materialize for you during this coming year, 2019. 2018 ends […]
AMLO is the New President of México
AMLO is the new president of México. He won the presidential chair with more than 53% of the votes, surpassing the multiple candidates of the right-wing political elite as a whole, by more than 14 points. It must also be considered that with just five years of existence, the MORENA party won at least 20,229,314 […]
Unión del Barrio Calls On Border Communities To Protect The Physical Integrity Of Our Central American Sisters And Brothers
Unión del Barrio strongly condemns the recent violent acts directed against Central American migrants and refugees by a small group of people in the area of Playas de Tijuana. The violence and threats of violence carried out by a small group of reactionaries represent nothing less than the most foul expression of xenophobia which highlights […]
Unión del Barrio Condemns the Increased Deployment of US Troops to the Politically Imposed Southern Border with Mexico
¡Somos Un Pueblo, Sin Fronteras! We don’t recognize the Imperialist imposed U.S. Border By deploying its military to the southern border to support the anti-Mexican police force known as the US Border Patrol and its criminal counterpart Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Trump administration has exposed the true nature of US imperialist crisis. But […]
Part III: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
Part II: The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
The Self-Defense of La Raza is Now One of the Front Lines of Anti-Fascist Struggle: Part I
Unión del Barrio Analysis On Trumpista Fascism & The Struggle For Raza Liberation The purpose of this four part analysis is to offer a summary of what Unión del Barrio has learned about liberation struggle within the political borders of the United States. We feel it is essential to critically analyze our struggle over time in order […]
The Shameless Dishonesty of US Narco-Imperialism: A Timeline Of Neoliberal Death-Mongering
Deception, war, criminality, and terrorism have been used as instruments of empire for hundreds of years. US imperialism has not been an exception, fomenting political chaos and death across the globe, especially in the decades following World War II. Yet, the shamelessly ahistorical nature of trumpista fascism makes it too easy to forget the origins […]
Trump’s “Renegotiation” of NAFTA Means Bleeding The Mexican People More Than Ever
Since it was imposed in 1994, NAFTA destroyed the Mexican countryside and made the Mexican economy completely dependent on the US economy. This destruction provoked a massive migration of Mexicans to the United States. Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Bill Clinton knew perfectly well that NAFTA would provoke more migration, that was why 1994 was […]
International Declaration of the 2nd Congress of the Nueva Central de Trabajadores de México
As representatives of sister organizations of various countries, continental organizations, and international delegates to the II Congress of the Nueva Central de Trabajadores de México, we declare full solidarity with the fight of the people of Mexico to defend their sovereign rights and reject the intention of Trump to construct and expand a wall long the international border. The president of […]
“POR LA PAZ, LA UNIDAD Y LA INTEGRACIÓN DE NUESTRA AMÉRICA” – Declaración de Santo Domingo
Los movimientos sociales y las organizaciones políticas de América Latina y el Caribe, reunidos los días 23 y 24 de enero del 2017 en la ciudad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, suscribimos el presente documento de ferviente apoyo a la V Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y Gobierno de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y […]
Unión del Barrio Denounces the Murder of Two More Normalista Students from Ayotzinapa, & We Hold the Mexican Government Responsible for This Crime.
Unión del Barrio laments the pain felt by the families of Filemón Tacuba Castro and Jonathan Hernández Morales. Furthermore, from local authorities, to the President of the republic, Enrique Peña Nieto, we hold the Mexican government responsible for this most recent crime. The Mexican government has continues to promote and maintain a policy of state […]
A Speaking Tour Against Repression, Disappearances, & Impunity In Mexico!
Mexico is experiencing one of its worst crises in its history; politically, economically, socially, and culturally. The Mexican state, led by political parties at the service of international finance capital, are selling and distributing the wealth of the nation to foreign banks and foreign interests. This has resulted in the looting of Mexico’s national wealth, […]
September 11, 1973: The Coup Against The Socialist President Of Chile, Salvador Allende – Led By Augusto Pinochet & Backed By The U.S.
In 1970, the Chilean people set out on an unprecedented path towards socialism in Nuestra America, the electoral process. In an act of electoral support for the construction of a workers state and the general platform expressed by the Unidad Popular, and its candidate Salvador Allende Gossens, the Chilean people voted for socialism. The Nixon […]
Unión del Barrio Repudiates the Coup Against the Democratically Elected President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff
To the people of Brazil, To the Central de Trabajadores de Brazil (CTB), Unión del Barrio repudiates the coup in Brazil, consummated in the Brazilian Senate by a hand full of legislators working in the service of trans-national capitalism. This coup has bought about the ouster of the democratically elected President, Dilma Rousseff. Unión del Barrio […]
Trumpism Is An Imminent Threat! ¡La Amenaza Trumpista Es Real!
We must be organized raza! In a speech Donald Trump delivered on August 31, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona, he increased the intensity of his anti-Mexican rhetoric to a level we have not seen within a presidential campaign, in at least a lifetime. Win or lose, his candidacy “a soltado los demonios,” and “trumpism” has become […]
Unión del Barrio Celebrates 35 Years Of Raza Liberation Struggle
On August 27, 2016, Unión del Barrio celebrated our 35th year of continuous struggle for raza liberation. From 1981 to this day in 2016, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of hours, invested into meetings, rallies, marchas, PE sessions, conferences, congresos, etc. – all stitched together to form a unified banner of struggle. We […]
August 29, 1970: Why the Chicano Moratorium Is Still Relevant Today
August 29, 1970: A Day Every Chicana & Chicano Must Remember August 29th marks the anniversary of the largest raza-led mobilization against the U.S. imperialist war in Vietnam, and against the conditions of oppression and exploitation of our historically indigenous people by this colonial settler society on our own land. The August 29, 1970 Chicano Moratorium […]
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN UNION DEL BARRIO?
Unión del Barrio is a barrio based revolutionary organization, born from the Chicano Power movement of the 1960’s & 70’s. We were founded on the guiding principles of Raza Self-Determination and National Liberation. Our ultimate struggle is to recover the lands stolen from the Mexicano-indigenous people in 1846 by the illegal US settler invasion, war […]