The U.S. supports fascism in dozens of countries through direct financing, military support, and other coercive measures. Biden has continued the U.S. foreign policy of backing dozens of dictators around the world who use terror to carry out the orders of U.S. corporations and banks to keep wages low and workers desperate. But people around the world are resisting U.S.-supported fascism in record numbers and with increasing organization.
Colombian General Strike Enters Seventh Week
In Colombia millions of workers and peasants have come together to carry out a general strike now entering its seventh week. Strikers demand that the government protect the safety and dignity of workers, repeal anti-worker laws, uphold rights of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, end land exploitation by big corporations, and guarantee basic needs including education, housing, food, and employment.
They’re also demanding an end to the routine torture, rape, and murder of social activists and trade unionists carried out or given cover by the U.S. puppet government of Ivan Duque. Much of this terrorism is carried out by mercenaries hired by corporations like BP, Coca-Cola, and Chiquita. Since the strike began on April 28, thousands have been injured and scores have been murdered by U.S.-funded and trained police, military, and paramilitary forces.
In 2021 alone, the U.S. has allotted over $460 million in military aid to Colombia in addition to weapons and training. This falls directly in line with the U.S.’s “Plan Colombia” which sought to establish Colombia as the main U.S. military outpost in South America. Last year, Biden bragged “I’m the guy who put together Plan Colombia…straightened that government out for a long while,” vowing to continue and expand such brutal polices across Latin America. Fascist Israel is the second largest financer of the right-wing Colombian regime providing weapons, military training, and mercenaries.
Solidarity with Palestinian Liberation Struggle Strong
The U.S. gives the Zionist Israeli government over $11 million a day to prop up their genocidal occupation of Palestine. U.S. military support is longstanding, and Biden agreed to sell $735 million in weapons to Israel only days before the latest Israeli assault on Gaza. Though a May 21 ceasefire ended 11 days of murderous Israeli air strikes against the people of Gaza, daily assaults on Palestinians by Israeli police, military, and settler gangs continue unabated as millions of Palestinians remain under occupation and blockade.
Palestinians continue to resist illegal evictions, occupation, and violence. Joined by allies around the globe, the Palestinian people’s movement for liberation continues to grow. Dockworkers and activists have blocked Israeli ships from ports in Oakland, New York, South Africa, and Italy. Major solidarity demonstrations have drawn out millions across the globe including a tens-of-thousands strong march on Washington, D.C. The steadfast struggle of the Palestinians is inspiring people across the world to ramp up the fight against all oppression and end the fascist tide.
