Information related to struggles throughout Nuestra América.
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
¡ALTO A LA REPRESIÓN Y CRIMINALIZACION DE LA PROTESTA SOCIAL!
¡Libertad para el Profesor Rubén Núñez Ginés! ¡Libertad para el Profesor Francisco Villalobos! ¡Alto a la criminalización de la protesta social! 14 de junio de 2016 A la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación Al movimiento Sindical Mexicano A las y los Mexicanos en Resistencia contra el Mal Gobierno Unión del Barrio, organización política de Mexicanos/Latinoamericanos […]
May 12, 2016 Unión del Barrio expresses our solidarity with the masses of Brazil who are now mobilizing to defend democracy and resist the coup against the popularly elected President Dilma Rousseff. We stand in unity particularly with the organized working class and the revolutionary parties and movements that have achieved significant victories such as […]
Link to 2017 UdB May Day Events May 1st, also known as May Day, or Primero de Mayo, is celebrated across the globe as International Workers Day. Precisely because this day commemorates the struggles of working people, this is one of only a few commemorations that spans across borders and touches all humanity. This is true […]
Caracas, 11 April 2016 The peoples of our America are suffering the offensive of conservative re-colonization launched by imperialism and local oligarchies. They would like to sweep away all the conquests of the regional progressive processes in the field of social justice, sovereignty, integration and the birth of authentic peoples’ power. In this context, Venezuela […]
La realización del VII° ESNA se lleva adelante en el marco de una profunda crisis mundial del capitalismo y una brutal ofensiva imperialista contra los pueblos del mundo. En Nuestramérica se pretende terminar con algunos avances en materia de cambio político e integración, caso del ALBA-TCP, la Unasur y especialmente la CELAC, que excluye de […]
San Diego, 8 de marzo de 2016 En conmemoración del Día Internacional de la mujer obrera, Unión del Barrio saluda a todas las mujeres que luchan, que resisten y que sacrifican tanto para lograr un mundo más justo y solidario. La madrugada del 3 de marzo la terrible noticia del asesinato de la compañera Berta […]
Link: http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=209601 Los gobiernos hondureños siguen asesinando impunemente. Esta vez, la víctima ha sido la dirigente indígena y luchadora ambientalista Berta Cáceres, un obstáculo para quienes forman parte del sistema de dominio y explotación del pueblo hondureño. Como viene sucediendo desde el golpe contra el gobierno constitucional de Manuel Zelaya en junio del 2009, la oligarquía […]