
Leo Zino
The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell
While the ongoing rebellion is starting its second week, new questions are emerging. Where is the movement of liberation coming from, and where it is going?
Leo Zino
June 2, 2020The World Is Watching
As the streets of Minneapolis burn, the flames are lighting up and projecting the forgotten demands of millions of oppressed Black, brown, and poor youth. The “belly of the beast” is the new epicenter of class struggle against police violence and social inequality.
Leo Zino
May 30, 2020The Head of the AFL-CIO Is Infected — With Union Bureaucrat-itis
In this crisis, the response from union leaders has left much to be desired. Nowhere is this more evident than in a recent address by the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka. He offers only a “cure-all” bill in Congress, but a healthy labor movement would fight in strikes and in the streets.
Leo Zino
May 18, 2020Activist Dies in Chile’s Plaza Italia as Police Repress Medics
Abel Acuña was only 29 years old. Yesterday at Plaza de la Dignidad (ex Plaza Italia), violent repression was unleashed against protesters. This sent Acuña into a cardiac arrest. Acuña's death is the responsibility of Sebastián Piñera's government.
Leo Zino
November 16, 2019Chile: A Rebellion of the Masses
The following is a first hand account of what is going on on the ground in Chile.
Leo Zino
November 14, 2019Argentina: Peso in Free Fall as Thousands Mobilize Against Macri and the IMF
In the past few hours, the Argentine peso has been devalued from 35 pesos to the dollar to 40 pesos to the dollar. What is going on?
Leo Zino
August 30, 2018Xenophobia in America: Immigrant Children Detention Centers Promote Terror and Fear
U.S. Immigration Patrol is detaining immigrant families and separating parents from their children.
Leo Zino
June 19, 2018Buenos Aires Subway Workers Strike Against Repression
After a month-long struggle the militarized police clamped down on striking subway workers in the tunnel and arrested 16 of them. In response to the government’s repression, subway workers called for an indefinite, city-wide transit strike until their fellow workers are released from jail.
Leo Zino
May 23, 2018Solidarity with PepsiCo Workers!
Six hundred PepsiCo workers in Argentina have been fired and their factory was closed. They are currently occupying the factory, despite lack of support from the union.
Leo Zino
July 1, 2017Trump and the Circus on Comey Island
In an unprecedented power grab, Trump fired James Comey, the director of the FBI. The Democrats who also criticized Comey and even called for his resignation find themselves in a contradictory position. Some call it the beginning of the end of American democracy. However, the FBI is a repressive institution that dismantles left movements, not an institution to be defended.
Leo Zino
May 15, 2017The Dream of Socialism Did Not Die With Fidel Castro
The media is quick to paint the death of Fidel as the death of not only a cruel dictator, but also as the death of revolution. The youth and working class who are rising up all over the world show that this could not be further from the truth.
Leo Zino
November 28, 2016